This year our team is made up of 7 biological scientists, 4 bioinformaticians and 1 chemist, all of whom are new to iGEM. We started our project design in January this year and finally decided our project —— Grenadier Guards on May 1st after four months of intense and independent brainstorming process. We have been putting ceaseless effort such as conducting wet experiments and mathematical modeling since the middle of June. During this long time battle, we are trying our best to understand our individual roles and responsibilities, as well as devoting all our time and energy to this project. Although our project is not mature enough and we are not that experienced, we really appreciated this special iGEM experience from which we have gained some precious qualities like perseverance and diligence, as well as establishing strong and sincere friendship with each other.

Self-supporting

The back-up supporting

Sincere and special thanks to

Dr. Guoxia Han supported us at every step of iGEM. He gave us alerting suggestion on scientific research and made his best to ensure us go ahead bravely. He would also accompany us to the giant jamboree and take care of us in the U.S.

Dr. David Chiu spent long hours supervising us and gave his valuable help throughout the whole project. He also prepared extra classes to help us understand more about synthetic biology techniques and lab safety.

Dr. Dechang Xu supported us by listening to all our concerns and encouraging us to find solutions. He also advised us on our modelling strategies and helped us to get connection with many of our sponsors and collaborators.

Mr. Yunpeng Zhong is quite talented at synthetic biology and helped us a lot when we got stuck at the difficult time.

Mr. Zhongkai Huang and Ms. Sijing Meng supervised us in the lab all along.