Team Collaboration

iGEM at Jiangsu Normal University

For this year’s competition, our team collaborated with the iGEM Team at Jiangsu Normal University.

JSNU’s project aims at applying anthocyan to a potential cancer therapy. Their early experiments were conducted based on the (cell type) where (gives a reason why use that cell type). To better test their idea, cancer cells were required for the further explorations. However, in September when they turned to work on the cancer cells, they just realized that those commercialized cancer cell clones were not ideal materials for the experiments, because the pioneer cell generations soon after the reviving were usually not in good condition for the experiments. Only those later cell generations (normally after the fifth generation), could be applied in the test. Additionally, due to the high expense of the cell clone as well as the long time period of the cell culture, it seemed impossible for the team to conducted their further experiments in cancer cells within the time frame necessary.

Thankfully, our team just had the hela cell clone (the ninth generation) in stock which was originally prepared for our previous idea for the iGEM competition. Also, benefiting from some of the group members’ professional skills in cell culture, the cell clone demonstrated good viability. In response to the emergency request from the iGEM at JSNU, we very soon prepared the cell samples according to their needs, and sent the materials immediately.

Meanwhile, the wiki-design team at JSNU provided us assistance in creating avatars, where they drew a serious of cartoon bacteria characters based on the real photos of our team members. These avatars are used and also can be seen at the Team session on our wiki page.

iGEM at Tsinghua University

This year, our team launched the collaboration with the iGEM team at Tsinghua University. (Lechen is going to ask Tsinghua Team to composite this portion.)

To better illustrate our biofilm-based platform strategy, the wiki-design team at Tsinghua University helped us to depict the brief mechanism of our project in a cartoon style. This figure are used and also can be seen at the (where do we use the picture) on our wiki page.

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