• Attributions
• Idea
• Project
• Policy&Practices
• Safety
• Team training
• Acknowledgement

The iGEMers of XMU-China are responsible for all the iGEM work this year, which includes idea, lab work, wiki and paperwork and so on. And also, we communicated and collaborated with many iGEM team this year. All the work did by our team members and help received from advisors and others is shown below.

1. Idea

Brainstorms (Start from Nov. 2015): All team members.
Guided by advisor: Feng Wang Prof. Fang Baishan and Prof. Keju Jing.

2. Project

The lab work started in May 2016.

(1) Circuit construction (undergraduate)

Yawen Jiang, Renwei Liu, Ziteng Liang, Jinyu Wang, Yuling Li, Yuan Zhao, Bing Chen, Yunpeng Bi, Zuo Wang, Shijia Qi, Wei Guo, Zeyue Gao, Jiajin Yan and Yihang Zhou.
However, for the reason that there are some bugs on our kits (BBa_Q04530 cannot be used), we asked iGEM team LanZhou to help us to ligate BBa_P0453 and BBa_R0053 into a new regulator parts.
Gene synthesis: hfq-binding domain gene on the pGH by Sangong Biotech.

(2) Characterization (undergraduate)

Yawen Jiang, Renwei Liu, Jinyu Wang, Zeyue Gao.

(3) Interlab (undergraduate)

Zeyue Gao.

(4) Improve a previous parts or project (undergraduate)

We base this part on the project did by WHU-China in 2014 (This is not our major project), which was carried out by Rengwei Liu, Yuan Zhao, Bing Chen and YunPeng Bi.

(5) Collaboration

Jingyu Wang, Yawen jiang, Rengwei Liu and Zeyue Gao.
Guided by advisor: Feng Wang.
Presentation coaching by advisor: Feng Wang and Rengyuan.
Difficult technique supported by advisor: Prof. Fang Baishan and Prof. Keju Jing.

3. Policy & Practices (undergraduate)

(1) Newsletter

Invitation: Yawen Jiang, Ziteng Liang, Bing Chen, Yu Zhu and Jinyu Wang.
Material collecting: Jinyu Wang, Yuan Zhao and Yunpeng Bi.
Typesetting: Yunpeng Bi, Jinyu Wang, Zuo Wang, Jiajin Yan, Yuan Zhao, Yuling Li and Yihang Zhou.
Proofread: Bing Chen, Yawen Jiang, Jiajin Yan, Yuan Zhao and Jinyu Wang.
Writing: Yunpeng Bi, Yawen Jiang, Renwei Liu, Jinyu Wang, Jiajin Yan, Yuan Zhao and Yu Zhu.
Guided by advisor: Renyuan Zhang.

(2) Communication with other teams

All of our team members.
Guided by advisor: Feng Wang and Renyuan Zhang.
Presentation coaching by advisor: Feng Wang and Rengyuan Zhang.

(3) Human practice in Xiamen

Planner: Yu Zhu.
Brochure Design: Yuling Li and Yunpeng Bi.
Lecturers: Ziteng Liang.
Participants: All members in the team.
Guided by advisor: Renyuan Zhang.

(4) Wiki (undergraduate)

Bing Chen, Yuan Zhao, Zuo Wang, Yunpeng Bi, Yuling Li, Jiajin Yan and Yihang Zhou.
Guided by advisor: Feng Wang.

(5) Art design (undergraduate)

PowerPoint: Jiajin Yan, Renwei Liu Yawen Jiang.
Videos: Yu Zhu and Zuo Wang.
Brochures: Yuling Li and Yunpeng Bi.
Logo, banner and souvenirs: Bing Chen, Yihang Zhou, Zuo Wang, Yuling Li, Jinyu Wang and Yihang Zhou.
Guided by advisor: Zhe Zhang, Feng Wang and Renyuan Zhang.

4. Safety

Yu Zhu.
Guided by advisor: Feng Wang and Renyuan Zhang.

5. Team training

Our university don’t teach an iGEM or synthetic biology course. We learnt the knowledge from the textbooks and iGEM official website.
Guided by advisor: Feng Wang.
Supported by advisor: Prof. Fang Baishan and Prof. Keju Jing.

6. Acknowledgement

We would like to thank our instructors Baishan Fang and Keju Jing for their providing us laboratory, material and instruments. And we also want to acknowledge the fund given by Xiamen University.