Collaboration

Our Journey

April
April 27-29, 2023
Chinese Engineering Biology Innovation Forum IV, Offline
Dr. Xiao Yi invited us to attend the grand conference hosted in Shenzhen, China. Many experts and the best companies in synthetic biology have attended this conference. We communicate with experts from all works of life and we meet iGEMers from HUST-China, DUT-China and a high school team SZ-SHD. We communicated about our projects and exchanged souvenirs with each other.

May
May 14, 2023
CCiC series for Human Practice, Online
At this online conference, Dr. Yuhan Bao discussed how to do Human Practice with us. He pointed out that Human Practice is not equal to holding activities monotonously. Actually, the soul of human practice is to communicate and to judge our program with different stakeholders and in different perspectives. In other words, it should serve our project!
His valuable guidance and reminding had great influence on our human practice direction later on.

May 27, 2023
TP-link iGEM team meetup (Hosted by Peking 2023), Offline
Team from Peking University invited our team and another Tsinghua team to their campus to exchange experience and ideas. We presented our project here and discussed interesting and various HP ideas with each other like designing a game for promoting synthetic biology. Their admirable progress and their encouragement had supported us a lot!

July
July 05, 2023
Hubei Synthetic Biology Conference
(Hosted by HUBU-China), online
HUBU-China held this activity and invited us fervidly. They were so earnest as to mail us an exquisite invitation. It's an honor to hear from friends 1000 kilometers away. The hot discussion and sharing last one day and we had some communications on project process and art design.



July 09-10, 2023
Conference of China iGEMer Community (CCiC), Offline
When the annual celebration and discussion pageant belonging uniquely to Chinese iGEMers began, we sent two of our team members even under the pressure brought by military training, which was delayed in 2021 in Beijing. There we heard many sparking and fascinating ideas such as modifying a planet to make it livable.
We made a very green poster and presented our project here and, to our surprise, we found team ShanghaiTech-China wanted to edit the same gene in different chassis organism with us. We had some communications on project design and modeling with them. It's quite an enjoyment to introduce Chlamydomonas to others for whom this chassis sounded novel!

September
September 17, 2023
International Team Meetup for
“Synthetic Biology x Sustainable Development”
Organized by us
Our team has tried to organize an international conference dedicated to the intersection of synthetic biology and sustainable development. This conference served as a pivotal platform for iGEM teams from all over the world who were dedicated to sustainability to come together and share their experiences, knowledge, and innovative ideas.
Because SDGs are global issues, we extended invitations to teams worldwide and received positive responses.
Team Makerere-Uganda from Africa, Team Nanjing-China and Team SCU-China from China shared their projects and their opinions on SDGs and synthetic biology.
Team Oxford and Team UZurich from Europe also expressed interest in our meetup and we had communications on the projects through emails.





September, 2023
SDG Handbook Made by Us
In addition to the conference, we recognized the need for a practical resource that future iGEM teams could use to navigate the complex landscape of sustainable development projects. To meet this need, we compiled a comprehensive handbook helped by Team Makerere-Uganda and Team SCUT-China. This handbook provides a detailed account of our approach to sustainable development initiatives, serving as a blueprint for other teams looking to undertake similar projects.


Download Our SDG Handbook
Others

Tsinghua

The close physical distance has dragged us close.
Our two teams shared the right to attend the group meeting for each other throughout the year and our discussion was especially hot in the period of getting familiar with the rules of competitions and learning from previous outstanding projects.
We also communicated about dry lab and HP. Team members from either team are so familiar with each other that it seems that we are one team!

SCU-China

At first, it was just some communications on dry lab at CCiC. But we found the possibility of deeper cooperation on SDG conference and they passionately participated we hosted.
Their project of reducing hydrogen sulfide concentration in the sewer and alleviates the sewer crisis is widely different from our arable land crisis but both led to SDG concerns!




UESTC-BioTech

During the period of getting familiar with rules of competitions and learning from previous outstanding projects, the team leader of UESTC-BioTech 2022 shared their project and some experience for competing in iGEM with us.
Many thanks!




Peking and Peking HSC

We met in the TP-link iGEM team meetup and exchanged ideas about projects and human practices.




HUBU-China

We participated the Hubei synthetic biology open conference hosted by them and we together made an “Education Map” to highlight our effort on promoting the knowledge of synthetic biology.




ShanghaiTech-China

We met in the 10th CCiC and exchanged ideas about project design and modeling.




HUST-China, DUT-China and high school team SZ-SHD

We met in the Chinese Engineering Biology Innovation Forum IV and we exchanged ideas and souvenirs with each other.




~Thank iGEMers for All the Communication and Cooperation~