Team:BNU-China/Engagement

Team:BNU-CHINA - 2016.igem.org

HUMAN PRACTICE

VOICE FROM SOCIETY

Went to Pecking Union Medical College Hospital For an interview

Different anticancer medicines are clinically used in different cases, depending on the condition and illness history of the patient. And taxol, a broad-spectrum medicine targeting on the microtubule, is just a choice for cancer doctors. We wondered how these taxol-like medicine are used clinically and what problems they are facing. We went to PUMCH and get Dr. Yingyi Wang for an interview.

As he said, taxol is a widely used medicine for many kinds of cancers. But it is the wide-ranging that limits its application. Nowadays, targeted medicines which are initiated with precision medicine have great advantages in treating cancer. In the other hand, taxol treatment is a relative affordable scheme in most cases. From medicine history in a broader scale, small medicine agents like taxol would possibly fade out in several decades and be replaced by targeted medicines like antigen medicine or micro-robot which would have less sife effects and safer. However, our engineered device is still work whenever people want to screen microtubule-stabilizing agents.

He is very interested in our project. Click here to see the interview record.

Communicate in Community

CCiC Conference

During September 1st – September 3th, 2016, CCiC conference was organized and held by Sun Yat-sen university in Guangzhou, China. Our team, BNU-China, had the chance to attend to the conference. During the conference, we introduced our project to the other 26 teams.

In the conference, each team conducted in-depth communication and exchanged ideas on their own projects. The inspiring spark collided by thoughts and innovation among the teams made the attendees reap substantial benefits. After careful preparation, we showed our project roundly to the whole attendees from the aspects of background、project、design、modeling and human practice. In the meantime, we also held open attitude towards the sincere suggestions and comments from other teams.

Fig.9 Our iGEMers are in CCiC in Guangzhou.

In the conference, not only did we strengthen the relationship with FAFU-CHINA, but we made many new friends as well. And the communication and mutual learning among the teams provided us with the opportunity to broad our horizon and help us acquaint more people with our project.

ORIENTEERING GAME

What's the Game

In order to facilitate the communication between the students and to help students to get a deeper understanding of iGEM. We designed and organized an orienteering activity "running of biology" in the campus. The rules of the orienteering are designed to bring our ideas to more people. The destinations were set at several typical buildings in the campus and was named by some representative chemical compound we have used or produced in the experiment, such as alpha protein, beta protein, N terminal of luciferase, c terminal of luciferase and some other organic molecular. The students were divided into several teams to compete with each other. Each team should find their destination by the description written on the task card to get a chemical compound. And then the team will obtain the task card leading to the next destination. The team that uses the less time to collect all the chemical compound will win the game.

Feedback

The orienteering is entrusted but full of joy and meanings. to start with, as a freshman who has little impression to the campus, the orienteering makes me feel more familiar to the college. what's more, the seniors in our team is so cute and my teammates is so bright and cheerful. yesterday, we were strangers passing by each other but today we become a group, running and laughing in the school. At last the seniors took us to visit the laboratory, showing the ideas of iGEM, and I found it is really fascinating. I wish I can join in this group next year.

How time files! The orienteering has already ended. In this lively morning, we walked through the campus. We visited the stela in BNU, made new friends, looked around the lab and understood the main key of iGEM. We learned a lot today, and the high tech equipment really impressed me! I feel I am getting close to the mysterious scientific research. I hope to become a part of iGEM and helping others.

the combination of the cross-country and the iGEM experiment is full of fun. And as a sophomore student, I am very curious to iGEM, and I want to know more about it. I have learned the detailed introduction to the laboratory and the project though seniors and get the third place prize. I am happy to participate in this activity! I always want to get a chance to train my laboratory experiment skills and do the experiment in the lab but I didn't find the opportunity to do that, and this is one of the reasons of my participation. Finally thanks for taking the time to further our understanding of iGEM. Happy :)

And after this game, participants visited the iGEM labs.

Fig.10 Participants are visiting iGEM labs after the game.