Attribution of team
members
Our project wouldn’t proceed smoothly without the contribution of any member of the team. Team Leader: Our team came into existence under the leadership of Xinyuan Qiu in December 2015. He observes our characteristics carefully and exerts our greatest potential. Our team works efficiently due to his outstanding leadership. Experiment: Xinyuan Qiu, Chushu Zhu, Yue Wang and Yishi Lu get involved in experiments. The leader divided us into several subgroups for the section of molecular cloning, protein purification, system testing respectively. Wiki: Everyone shares his or her brilliant ideas about the style of the wiki. Dongyu Fan is good at art design and works on the visual appearance of it. Jiaxin Ma and Xinyuan Qiu are responsible for web copy writing. Poster: Chushu Zhu is engaged in composing the texts in our poster. Jiaxin Ma and Xinyuan Qiu devote themselves to the layout and the art design of the poster. Presentation: Xinyuan Qiu, Jiaxin Ma and Chushu Zhu will give the presentations during the competition, they have rehearsed several times and all of us gathered and discuss to improve it. Team Shirt: Yufei Xu designs our team shirt. Modeling: Chushu Zhu and Xinyuan Qiu are in charge of the modeling. Human practice: Yifan Zhang and Qijie Xu designs an interesting game based on our project. Yue Wang popularizes some basic knowledge of cancer in the community together with Xi Cheng. Besides, they went to the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University to interview Dr. Wenjin Li and Dr. Tao Hou about cancer. Jiaxin Ma and Huifang Wang design a questionnaire to know the public awareness of early detection of cancer. Yishi Lu organized a great debate on ethical issues about cancer. Ruixuan Cheng is in charge of “LAB OPEN DAY”. Jiaxin Ma and Xi Cheng do a survey about the cost of the early cancer detection product in the market and estimate the expected cost of our product.
Acknowledgments
We would like to express our deepest gratitude towards every person and institution that have helped us. General Support: The project is supported by the Department of Chemistry and Biology of College of Science, National University of Defense Technology. Project support and advice: This project was come up with due to a brainstorming. Dr. Zonghuang Ye from the Department of Chemistry and Biology introduced some relevant background knowledge to us, and our instructors Xiaomin Wu offer us guidelines about the details about the project. Mr. Zhe Liu and Prof. Dongyi Zhang offer us some advice about the project. Fundraising help and advice: We get experimental funding support from our PI Prof. Lingyun Zhu and Dr. Lvyun Zhu and travel funding support from College of Science of NUDT. Our advisor Lu Min is in charge of expenses management. Lab support: Research Center of Biological Information of the College of Science of NUDT Provides an experimental platform for us. Difficult technique support: Our lab was newly established and is short of the equipment which is able to do the nucleotide sequence screening. In light of this, we bought the sequencing service from InvitrogenTM . Our devices and systems of parts was all verified there. Most of our regents such as enzyme were bought from TaKaRaTM and some other bio-tech companies. IDT provides us with the prime synthesize service. Genscript helps to forward our part samples shipments to iGEM HQ. Project adviser support: Our advisor Liu Long provides us solutions when we face difficulties in the process of proceeding the project. Experiment support: Dr. Wenjin Li and Dr. Tao Hou from the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University are concerned about our experimental work and help us to get some serum samples from healthy volunteers and sick volunteers. We are very grateful for all the volunteers. Human Practices support: Dr. Wenjin Li and Dr. Tao Hou from the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, were very kindly to answer our question about cancer. Wiki support: Our instructors Qijun Liu provide us solutions when we face difficulties in the process of wiki production. Model support: Our advisor Shaoliang Peng, who from the Supercomputer Center in NUDT, helped us optimize simulation algorithm and ran parallel program on Tianhe. Our instructors Qijun Liu provide us solutions when we face difficulties in the establishment of our model.