There were a number of teams that we interacted and collaborated with, some of whom we shared project ideas with. Some we worked together to organize educational activities, injecting fresh blood into the popularization of synthetic biology. Through exchanging and learning with different teams, we gained more than just information about other projects, we learned more from them.
The Bioremediation Forum was organized by ZJUT-CHINA, mainly in China. During this event we met with teams from different universities in the bioremediation track, where we exchanged ideas and collaborated on HP with different universities.
Since both Northeastern University and our project used CsgA to generate Curli fibre, we shared with them how the parameters of CsgA out of the membrane and protein expression in their project were different from ours. After this exchange, we both inspired each other's modelling.
During the Heavy Metals Exchange, we exchanged knowledge about handling heavy metals with teams from different countries and regions, including IIT-Delhi, EPFL, SJTU-BioX-Shanghai, and we also had more collaborations on HP-related activities, which may be carried out in more depth in the future.
EPFL talked to us about biosafety related issues, they are using a suicide switch that forces the cells to commit suicide once they are exposed to the external environment and the lack of nutrients from the external environment. We shared with them our experience with biosafety, and since the end product of our project was a protein, they thought that perhaps they could culture the protein with the cells to see if there were any changes in the cells, which gave us a new idea for determining biosafety.
We formed an alliance called iG20 with LZU-CHINA, UESTC-China and other 20+ teams, mainly to make more interesting EDUCATION content and fun activities. And we also worked together to make a science popularisation relay video for synthetic biology. To do our part for the science popularisation of synthetic biology.
Together with more than ten teams such as SCUT-CHINA and SCAU-CHINA, we held a science fair about synthetic biology in Asia's largest science and technology museum, which is also called Guangdong Science Centre, and where we exchanged ideas and learned from different schools. At the same time, we had more contact with the public.
We travelled to the DKU campus and collaborated with DKU on education, where we conducted a joint presentation to undergraduate students to educate them about synthetic biology and related topics.
