Team:Tongji China/Engagement

Tongji iGEM - Collaboration

Engagement

We aimed to let more and more people from every group link to synthetic biology and iGEM.

Campus tlak

Students are very groups with a strong thirst for knowledge and curiosity, so we went to Tieling High School and gave campus talks to students of different ages about synthetic biology. At the end of the talk, we started a Q&A time, students and their teachers asked a lot and shared their dreams to us. At the same time we did some questionnaire investigations in order to know what they are interesting in and which is the best way for them to touch the synthetic biology.
This year SDU's project focuses on the treatment of tumors by replacing the mutated p53. The 2016 Tongji iGEM team also focused on cancer therapy with some parts containing p53. Therefore SDU team asked us for BBa_K1922003(wt p53) and BBa_K1922006(htERT-p53) for their experiments. We shared what we know and our experiences using p53 in experiments. We sent two samples fugw vector and htERT-GFP plasmid containing htERT promoter in them.

We checked the samples carefully and wrote instructions in order to make their work easier. Some of the information are as follows:

Conference of the China iGEMer Community

This summer we took part in the 4^th CCiC which was held by Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. iGEM was introduced in China 10 years ago, so many former iGEMers and current SynBio researchers partecipated. Here we also had the opportunity to talk face to face to King L.CHOW and Kenneth Oye from the iGEM Headwarters. At the meeting we showcased our project, Ignis Fly, and shared our experiences with the other teams.
What an amazing experience!

2^nd Open Night Live

The 2^nd Open Night Live was held to showcase the iGEM teams in Shanghai and to give people an opportunity to exchange ideas and ask questions to every iGEM member. It has been an honor for us to invite Fudan_China, Shanghaitech, STJU_BioX_Shanghai and ECUST to our Open Night Live.

We were delighted to find out that there were more college student watching and asking questions. Some audience members even made a few suggestions on what more our project could do, and we added the parts we thought were reasonable. There was a symposium among iGEM teams after the Open Night Live where we exchanged ideas. We also set up a live webcast and gave Open Night Live to iGEM teams in other provinces. It's really an unforgettable experience that we meet members of other iGEM team directly and interact together with more iGEM teams on the internet!