Overview

Our experiment contains five parts: collection and detection of saline-resistant strains, transcriptomic analysis of saline-resistant bacteria(dry lab), proteomic analysis of saline-resistant strains (dry lab), mining of saline-resistant gene elements（dry lab）, expression and validation of elements.

Here is the detailed experimental routing

1. Certification

Here is the certification and meeting video about our communication.

2. Invitation

We also participated in the Northwester China iGEM Meetup in August by remote participation. With fewer teams in Northwester China, our small exchange of 7 teams allowed us to communicate more deeply and establish cooperation. Besides improving our projects together, we also exchanged confusion and difficulties in our projects. All in all, we established a deep cooperative relationship.

3.Videos

We have multiple themes for ACE.Hair and educational exchange videos of synthetic biology. These videos contain not only scalp health related knowledge, but also a lot of synthetic biology knowledge. In the videos, we mainly introduced various scientific knowledge closely related to synthetic biology, such as bioenergy, environmental governance, medical detection, medical development, food and nutrition, and new materials. Through these videos, you will be interested in SynBio!

4.Cooperation

We got in touch with Dr Qin Lei from Tsinghua University. We contacted Dr Lei Qin from Tsinghua University. Researcher Qin Lei's research interests happen to be similar to ours, and he is also engaged in the systematic modification of industrial microbial resistance and robustness, and we had an in-depth discussion to learn more about each other's research in this field. He was very interested in our salinity tolerance gene fragment, so we requested him to use our original for testing and make evaluation, and he sent the gene fragment we obtained to complete the verification of salinity tolerance ability, which was very effective.

These pictures were taken while he was testing our components in the lab.

Communication with publicm

Two questionnaires were distributed to the public to find out their views on synthetic biology, asking them if they wanted to learn about synthetic biology and if they would like to attend our online/offline lectures.

We also created public accounts like ins,twitter and wechat to publish articles about knowledge of synthetic biology.

This is one of the articles we published on WeChat. It's a literature science article, scan the QR code next to it to see the specifics. We publish articles on our public number every week, sometimes it is literature translation and cutting-edge science, sometimes it is our project science or lecture news, welcome to follow us.

Conference Communication

In August 2023, Xinjiang University held the sixth Youth Science and Technology Forum,inviting experts from all walks of life to launch a lecture synthetic biology exchange. The conference is committed to building a platform for the exchange and cooperation of experts and scholars in the field of bioengineering and industry, academia and research, to provide communication and cooperation opportunities for academia and industry, and to jointly promote the innovation and development of bioengineering and synthetic biomanufacturing.

The pictures below are the invitation to the conference and a picture of our team member Kun Zhang with Prof Chen Guoqiang. He asked Prof. Chen about our project "genetic shield". Prof. Chen expressed his approval of our project and thought that these gene elements have a good application value. This is a great encouragement to our members!