Team:SCAU-China/Team

  • We started to discuss ideas. Presentation of project ideas by individuals to the group.
  • Three team showed the progress of their project, and the astaxanthin and bioplastic team came into being.
  • We held a net-meeting. Several teammates shared the experiences about their visit in Peking University. Did some preparation for the teach-in to freshmen. Also, we did an investigation about company and the public.
  • We propagandized IGEM as well as our team in the teach-in. Our school invited several professor to make speeches about trans-gene.
  • We finally decided the project of astaxanthin to participate in the IGEM competition and prepared the Culture Day of bauhinia.
  • In the Culture Day of baubinia, we showed our project to the whole society, propagandized IGEM and clarified some misunderstand about transgenic food for human body.
  • We took part in the teach-in, which was held by the college of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, in terms of showing our project.
  • we made a presentation to become next generation of SCAU members.Waiting in excitement and wondering who will be the members of this year’s team 2016.4.9 we discussed the role of every team member renewedly.
  • We started designing our wiki.
  • we made arrangements for summer holiday.
  • six team members were selected to the final jamboree.
I’m Cammen Li, a Junior year student major in biotechnology .As the captain of the team, I has luxuriant imagination, and hope these ideas can be realized by ourselves with our own knowledge and ability.Beside biology, I am curious about all of the unknown in the world, and hope to explore them through practice.As the experimenter of the project, I’m crazy about scientific research, and often go back to dormitory before the door is going to be closed.I even want to work all night in the laboratory when I’m focus on the experiment .
Hello!My name is Tang Biyao,a,sophomore studying bioscience from SCAU(South China Agricultural University).I am responsible for the design of wiki and poster.I have extensive hobbies,for example,watching movies,listening music and reading books.What’s more,in my spare time,I am fond of ball games,such as basketball,badminton and table tennis,I am a one of basketball team in our college.I think I am a person who works hardly ,seriously and patiently.And I also like animals,especially dogs.
I’m Zou Shangjie,a sophomore student major in biotechnology.Because of my lush legs,others usually call me “legs”.Firstly,I was an experimenter,but later I switched to human prectice team,mainly work on activity planning.I like the feeling of carrying out researching projects.At the same time,I am always desperate to show achievements on science research to the public.Except for biology,I am also crazy about doing research about China’s recent history,geography,all kinds of outdoor sports and seafood.
I am Huang Junjie,and I’m a junior student finishing up my Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences.I join the team because I am interested in biology and want to make friends with those who are creative and love biology deeply. Except doing experiment in the laboratory,I also love playing soccer and touch rugby.
Zhang Runzhao, a sophpmore student in the college of Life Science. A nerd with a flaming heart. An experimenter of iGEM-SCAU. Responsible for the transformation of rice. Now I’m committed myself to make life science a cool thing. Is there anyone also interested in this subject?
Wangrong, a designer in our team. In this team ,I take charge of design the poster and wiki. My major is biotechnology. I like playing basketball,drawing and learning new things. I f you have any question about our wiki or poster,you can send email to me.
Hello, I am one of the team member of IGEM-SCAU and my name is Joe Guo. In our team I am mainly in charge of building standard plasmid modul. Besides, sometimes I also take part some human practice activities and take photos for my team members in the meantime. I am easygoing and willing to make friends with people all over the world, if you have any questions about the experiment that I have done, you can contact me by email.
My name is Cui Chaojun. Majoring in Agronomy. I am open-mind and independent. Loving long jogging, Entertaining to play ping-pang with my friends and extremely enjoy reflecting on something about cognition. In my rest time I would like to explore the secret of life.
I'm Yunping Lin and this is my second year of college.I major in Biological science and I'm responsible for mathematical modeling and wiki design in our team.Many things in our daily life can excite my curiosity,by the way,meeting bizarra things is a greet treat for me.
My name is Chen Junyu and I am a sophomore student majoring in bioscience. I am an introvert with few words and I enjoy the time I stay alone. When doing experiments, I feel calm and I would concentrate on the things I am working on. I favour in Japanese animation thus out-door activities do not attract me as the animation do to me. In my team, I am responsible for constructing standard basic part and testifying the antioxidation of astaxanthin.
My name is Xuecheng Li and I am a sophomore student who major in biology. In Chinese, my first name “xuecheng” means doing a good job in study. So my partner would like to call me ”the god of study” and I enjoy this nickname very much. I don’t have too many talents except daydreaming. In my team, I am responsible for some translation work and some human practice work. Finally, the most important of me——my lucky number is 7 and my favorite is “double seven”(77).
My name is Jianbang Lin. I’m a sophomore in College of Life Sciences. In this team, I am one of the member of wet-lab team.I am so glad to meet so many brilliant teammates. During this process,I have learned how to plan ahead and work efficiently in a scientific environment along side my teammates. I love iGEM because it is really cool getting to do really awesome lab work that I have never thought, and I can see what other people my age and university students around the world are doing.
My name is XinLu, I am a sophomore in college of life science, south China agricultural university. In the team of IGEM,at the early stage, I am a member of the group 2, I help read papers and wikis, we carry out brainstorming, looking for ideas together, I have come up with some ideas for our teams. During the early time, I try my best to solve every problem, and during this process, I acquire many knowledge of synthetic biology and my ability of reading paper and researching project are improved. I am responsible for the WeChat Public update the event planning and the personnel management. If you got any question about me or the team, please contact with me. 409859596@qq.com
My name is Shuwen Chen and I am one of the teammates in SCAU-iGEM team. In this team, I am responsible for translating and editing wiki into English edition as well as time arrangement for conference of our team. Since I am a huge fan in English and academic studies, I participated in the laboratory in my second year, which is quiet early. I enjoy the time when I carry out teamwork with my lovely teammates, who are energetic and humorous. I learn a lot form this contest and it is such a lucky thing to meet everybody of our team. All in all I love sport, life, study and also IGEM especially.
Liying,also called Iris. Senior student,the college of life sciences "God is fair. The calamity and luck will come to your life steadily. If you don't pluck up your courage to act, will the fate entrust its gift to you?" Being a warm person ：）

Mentor:

Professor Chen Lotic is the instructor of SCAU-iGEM team and he is also the principal investigator of Subtropical agriculture biological resources protection and utilization of national key laboratory.Prof. Chen encourages our team members to widen their minds、put forward their ideas and be willing to embrace challege.Besides,Prof. Chen is a strict teacher who pays attention to discipline with strong responsibility and leadship,and he gives his advice in various aspects, such as constructing our team, publizing the team and designing our team's image.
Mr. Zhu Qinlong is the instructor of SCAU-iGEM team and works in the College of Life science, South China Agriculture University and Subtropical agriculture biological resources protection and utilization of national key laboratory.He is mainly engaged in investing and utilizing of gene engineering vector system in plants(multi-genes vector system and CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system)and the utilization of multi-gens engineering of nutritional substances accumulation in Oryza sativa. Mr. Zhu has great passion on scientific reasearch and he is interested in projects in many differentaspects.Also, Mr. Zhu is a easygoing teacher who is willing to dicuss on fascinating projects and scientific hot issue with students and is patient to answer the question that students came across during their experiments.

Researcher Liu Yaoguang : Provide our team with all kinds of experimental apparatus , plasmid, rice seeds and the experimental cropland.

Professor Hao Gang: Give us advice at the stage of brain strom and help us to select the best idea to be our project. In addition ,he also help us raise funds to supprot our team.

Professor Wang Haihong: Give us technical principle for all of our ideas at the stage of brain storm as well as offering our team some experimental apparatus and technical help.

Professor Wen Jikai: Teach us some knowledge of gene engineering and give us some advice on how to construct an expressing vector.

Associate Professor Zhu Guohui: Help us to select the best project for the competiton and also raising funds for us.

Professor Deng Yiqun:Provide advice and support to our project and also helping us to choose the best project.

Research Assistant He Dongmei:  Help us to raise funds and organize social activities.

Professor Hao Wang:  Offer suggestions to our PowerPoint presentations and give great advice for us on how to make a better speech.

 Attribution in details

There are operators in every part of our project in the following, some of them had already done very well,so we specilly add their email address behind thier name in case of
other's needs. Specific contents as follows:
1.Team construction and management：
Team leader Li Jiamin(email address) constructed the SCAU-iGEM team under the help of honorary header and was in charge of all the work. Chen Shuwen(email address) is responsible for attendance of meeting and message announcement. Lu Xin(email address) is responsible for team materials and fees.

2.wetlab work
Li Jiamin(email address) ,as the general experiment leader, takes charge for transformation and detection as well as Cui Chaojun(email address)、Zhang Runzhao(email address). Chen Junyu(email address) and Guo Xiangyu(email address) are in charge of constructing vectors. Lin Jiangbang(email address) have done the work about detection and safety.

3.Design
Wang Rong (741031805@qq.com):Wang Rong is the general leader of the design part, taking part in the the design and making of our team clothing, posters, wiki, team logo and the video.
Li Ying（512301993@qq.com）:Li Ying contrubutes to the design and making of our team clothing, posters, website and the video.
Tang Biyao（2329569909@qq.com）:Tang Biyao designs the posters and wiki.
Lin Yunping（1051077794@qq.com）:Lin Yunping is one of the designer of our wiki.
Guo Xiangyu（577931563@qq.com）：As our team photographer ,Guo Xiangyu is responsible for taking and collecting pictures so as to record the track of our activities.

4.wiki
This part was completed by all the team members. Chen Shuwen （865420439@qq.com）, Guo Xiangyu（577931563@qq.com） and Li Xuecheng （1370279310@qq.com）
worked together to accomplished the translation work.

5.human Practice
Lu Xin （409859596@qq.com）is the general leader of this part and she is responsible for organising all sorts of social activities.
Zhou Shangjie（965456487@qq.com） mainly made the plan and organising some educational and entrepreneurial activities.
6.Making model
This part is finished by both Huang Junjie （928100922@qq.com）and Lin Yunping（1051077794@qq.com）.

Acknowledgement:

Zeng Dongchang (Master degree candidate):  Make an effort to teach us how to construct vectors and detect the expression of genes. Thus, help us to carry out experiments smoothly.

Weike Li  (Honor student):  Play a leading role in the very beginning of our team-building process. Then, in the stage of brainstorming, not only help to collect oceans of data and references for us greenhands, but also point out the weakness of our idea and make suggestions. Finally, offer to improve the experimental methods. All in all, he is an X-man who works with us but cannot share success with us.(This is why we call him the honor student~)

7.2Lab support
State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources:
Our project mainly depends on Liu yaoguang Laboratory which belong to State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources.This laboratory is mainly engaged in rice sterility molecular mechanisms and rice genetic engineering research. It is at the leading level in gene carrier construction and plant tissue culture.There is specialized field to grow genetically modified rice, and have mature scheme of rice cultivation and management. The laboratory has strict management in safety, including specialized processing of engineering bacteria and plants、 safe distance between genetically modified rices and  isolate the  field from the outside world.These methods make sure that our gm products won't cause pollution to the environment.
The lab provides us with great support.Including the provision of reagent 、instrument、strains and field to grow rice.What is more important is that provide us with technology to build a carrier and tissue culture system.

    

    

(Human practice support)College support
1.Teacher Jinhong Lai provides us with the pathway to apply for the scientific research projects which can be supported by our school and thus ensures our experiment budget.

2.Deputy secretary Dongmei He and Prof Letian Chen raise all kinds of fund for our team so that our project can move on smoothly.

3.Thanks to the youth league committee in the college of life sciences of SCAU, we can publicize some wonderful items related to iGEM among the freshmen.

4.Also, with the help of the youth league committee in the college of life sciences of SCAU, we can share a stall to exhibit some achievements of our projects to the public during the “ZiJing Festival” in our university.

 

  1. The Secretary Department of Youth League Committee of College of Life Science organized the "Laboratory Open Day", we took the chance to show others about our own lab.

6.The Technical Department of Youth League Committee of College of Life Science provided us the opportunity to display and share our research work in the innovation and
entrepreneurship career talk that over 300 people attended.

7.Professor and Dean of our college Deng Yiqun, Professor and Associate Dean of our college Hao Gang, Professor Wen Jikai, Professor Wang Haihong, Professor Wang Hao, Deputy Party Secretary He Dongmei made contribution to the evaluation of our project.
Presentation coaching

8.Thank you Professor Wang Hao for giving duidance to our PPT presentation .

                                                                        

Sharing and collaboration are core values of iGEM, and our team also devote ourselves to expanding the influence of synthetic biology with others. In this part, we have been help Guangdong Experimental High School’ students to build a team (GDGDSYZX-United ) to participate in the iGEM competition.

1.We helped them distribute of tasks to everyone  according to their intention and talent, such as experimenters, art designers, editors and speakers.

2.We introduced the purpose and overview of iGEM competition and explained the rules to the them in detail. Also, we showed some excellent wiki to let them know how to start their work and how to achieve their goal.

3.We showed them how to use equipment to do experiment. Since their chassis is plant cell, which is similar with us, so we could give some guidance to their project. We also provide some plasmids to them.

We lead them to design their own logo and  team uniform. And we also send two teammates (Wang Rong and Lin Yunping) to Guangdong Experimental High School for several months to be their art and modeling advisor to help them build web page and design poster .

We hold a meeting to communicate about project progress and team construction, sharing experience and learn from each other.

Since the iGEMers from team GDSYZX-United are all high school students, most of them know little about mathematical tool which can help optimize biological experiments.So we talk to them and try to make them to comprehen the usage of mathematical tool in biological experiments by giving some examples of mathematical modeling in iGEM projects. What’s more, we give them some advice when they are analyzing the experiment results.