Team:SUSTech Shenzhen/Collaborations
Collaborations
Human Practices
Collaboration with SIAT-SCIE
In the collaboration with SIAT-SCIE, we held a workshop to communicate about our projects. We also help them with their molecular experiment.
After several online contacts, we invited SIAT-SCIE to our lab and held the first workshop in SUSTech. The first part of the workshop were introducing our research and methods, and we prepared a brief speech on background knowledge about microinjection and microfluidics which we used in our design. After our presentation, SIAT-SCIE also proposed their idea about the project and showed some supporting papers.
What’s more, beyond only talking about project, we also deeply exchanged our ideas about managing a project on our own. And we reached an agreement that working in smaller groups and having group meeting is a good way to coordinate working progress and form a good working pattern.
We also participated in South China iGEMer Meeting held by SIAT-SCIE and Shenzhen_SFLS. The aim of this meeting was iGEM teams communication between high schools. We shared our ideas with other teams.
We also participated in South China iGEMer Meeting up held by SIAT-SCIE. The aim of this meeting up was iGEM team communication between high schools. We also attended the meeting up and shared our ideas with other high school teams.
Besides exchanging ideas, collaboration was also meaningful by giving help to other iGEM teams which faced difficulties. For example, we taught them how to construct plasmid for subcloning and we helped SIAT-SCIE construct their core plasmid in their project.
Collaboration with Shenzhen_SFLS
In the early July, Shenzhen_SFLS contacted us for some help. They wanted to get instructions on modeling and they also faced problems of protein engineering project.
In their protein-engineering project, they found their interested protein was coated in inclusion body by BL21. So they couldn’t extract enough proteins out of engineering bacteria. With the help of structure biology professor Hongmin Zhang in SUSTech, we held a seminar with them to discuss how to deal with inclusion body. Prof. Zhang introduced the protocol of inclusion body washing, dissolution and renaturation, which helped them avoid expensive protein synthesis.
We also held a workshop with them to exchange project ideas. And we were invited to give some instructions on their model.
