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Overview

Success lies in cooperation, and cooperation brings future. To better learn from others, we have established cooperation with NWU-CHINA-A, BNUZH-China, HBUT-China, NEFU_China, and CUHKSZ. Through the communication and cooperation with these iGEM teams, we have gained a lot, grown a lot, and solved some specific problems in the process of project promotion.

NWU-CHINA-A

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Figure 1: we had our online meeting with NWU-CHINA-A

Last year, our team has cooperated with NWU-CHINA-A. Based on our common interests and friendly cooperation, we continue to cooperate with NWU-CHINA-A this year. far, we have conducted three joint presentations with their team, namely the 2022 China iGEM Online Meetup on July 16th, the Northwest Exchange Conference hosted by them on July 23rd, and the one we hosted on August 6th with nearly 300 participants. In addition, we also carried out extensive and in-depth exchanges on HP and experiments. In terms of HP, NWU-CHINA-A recommended us an expert in pharmacogenomics, namely Professor Penggao Dai of Northwest University, and introduced us the Xi'an Baimei Gene Co., Ltd. On July 20th this year, we have conducted an online interview with this company and learned a lot in the process. In terms of experiments, we hold regular exchange meetings every week to discuss and supervise each other, and jointly solve the difficulties and bottlenecks encountered in our projects.

BNUZH-China

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Figure 2: we conducted a joint presentation of five schools On August 6th 2022

When working with BNUZH China, we share with each other our project progress and solve problems together. For example, when they met difficulty in finding a suitable public welfare organization, we suggested that they cooperate with the local fire station to carry out popularization on burn healing. When they could not contact the experts, we suggested them to go to the local hospital to register and interview the experts as patients. All these suggestions are based on our own practice and experience last year and have helped their team solve many practical difficulties. On June 3rd this year, we participated in the South China Exchange Conference with BNUZH-China. On August 6, we also invited BNUZH-China to participate in the online joint presentation of "Into Synthetic Biology" hosted by us to jointly introduce related projects.

HBUT-China

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Figure 3: we had our online meeting with HBUT-China

Since the HBUT-China team had been interrupted for two years before, we provided them with some experience during the cooperation. For example, we suggested that they should establish 2-3 partnerships, deepen and diversify the HP part, and the HP members should be more familiar with the experiment in order to know better about the whole project. Together we discussed plans for the future and compiled nearly a thousand biology-related words. On August 6th, HBUT-China also participated the online joint seminar "Into Synthetic Biology" hosted by us. In addition to the exchange meeting, we have also established a WeChat group to keep in touch and facilitate communication at any time.

NEFU_China

In the process of cooperation with NEFU_China, we conducted in-depth discussions on the experimental aspect. At the online joint presentation on August 6, we introduced our respective projects and learned a lot of valuable experience from their project.

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Figure 4: we had our online meeting with NEFU_China

CUHKSZ

On August 3 this year, we went to Guangzhou Yakult Company with the CUHKSZ team to conduct research. Through the investigation, we jointly learned the relevant knowledge of the production, preservation and transportation of live bacteria products. We also learned more about the projects of the other team and some related information about synthetic biology through exchanges with each other.

After we visited the Guangzhou Yakult Company, we also had an online meeting with CUHKSZ on September 4th to learn from each other. We first watched our promotion video, then presented our project and shared our views and questions respectively. Then, we discussed about blue light lysis system and freeze-dried powder which two parts of interest to CUHKSZ. Finally, we also shared with them what we learned from other teams about Modeling.

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Figure 5: On August 3rd, we visited Guangzhou Yakult company with CUHKSZ

Meeting

The South China exchange meeting

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Figure 6: Group photo of South China Exchange Meeting

We were invited by SZU-China to participate in the South China exchange meeting and communicated with various teams. We came to the exchange meeting with the purpose of learning. In the process of communication, we found advantages to learn from each team, we also found some problems of our projects. For example, we can't let others understand our project clearly when we presenting our project. So after the meeting, we improve our presentation and the linguistic expression of project. And in this meeting, we collaborated with BNUZH-China.

We learn a lot from this meeting, all the members of our teams improved themselves. During the meeting, experts asked a lot of good questions, such as:" Glutathione had been wildly used, where is your innovation?" "Why don't you use glutathione freeze-dried powder?" and so on. We also adjusted the ideas of the project around the questions asked by the experts, which gave us many guidance.

SynBio Challenges

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Figure 7:Last year's team member presented the project
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Figure 8: The Group photo of SZPT-CHINA in SynBio Challenges

On July 8th and 9th , we participated in the first SynBio Challenges. The team member from 2021 presented the 2021project, and the team members from 2022 participated and assisted. In this challenge show, our team won a silver medal.

In this challenge, the members of 2022 learned a lot from last year's members. Including how to be calm when doing oral defense, how to be confident when doing the presentation. We watched, we learned.

Summer Partys

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Figure 9: we presented our project on July 17th

On July 17th, we received invitations from GXU-China, Jilin_China2022, Jiangnan_China and NPU_CHINA to attend the "Summer Part". In this exchange meeting, we recognized NEFU_China and became a partnership with this team.

The Northwest Exchange Meeting

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Figure 10: we participated in the Northwest Exchange Meeting on July 23th

On July 23th, we were invited by NWU-CHINA-A to participate in the Northwest Exchange Meeting hosted by them. In the meeting, we further understand the projects of other teams and learn their highlights. And learn a lot from the communication with other teams during the Northwest meeting. For example, we took advice from other teams to make our background more academic and professional. In the process of communication, some teams were very interested in the education of kindergarten, so we gave them some suggestions.

The trip of Yakult company

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Figure 11,12: SZPT-CHINA and CUHKSZ presented their projects respectively on the way to Yakult Company

On August 3rd, we were invited by Yakult company to visit and study in their factory in Guangzhou. In order to let more people know about synthetic biology, not only members of our teams and CUHKSZ, but also our friends were invited to visit with us. SZPT-CHINA and CUHKSZ presented their projects respectively and communicated with each other about their projects.

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Figure 13,14: we visited the Yakult Company
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Figure 15: the group photo of our team

The product of Yakult contain live bacteria, and our project is in the form of live bacteria. Therefore, we went to the Yakult factory in Guangzhou with the purpose of learning some knowledge. During the visit, the employee of Yakult introduced the origin and development process of Yakult to us. They also led us to watch the production process of Yakult products. During the visit, we didn't take photos because of the technical secrets involved.

The exchange meeting with five teams

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Figure 16: On August 6th, we communicated with five teams

On August 6th, after the lecture "walk in synthetic biology", we held an exchange meeting among five teams (SZPT-China, NWU-CHINA-A, HBUT-China, BNUZH-China, NEFU_China). In the exchange meeting, we explained the projects of our teams respectively and give opinions about the projects to each other. For example, we share the experience after Yakult's visit with NWU-CHINA-A. Some probiotics will lyse after they pass gastric acid, and we suggested them to simulate the environment of gastric acid to conduct experiments. NEFU_China shared the phenomenon that the high-yielding antioxidant strains were degraded by hydrogen peroxide stress. This may also be a problem that we will meet in the GshF expression and GSH production module.

The Conference of China iGEMer Community

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Figure 17:we participated in the Conference of China iGEMer Community on August 19th
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Figure 18: our poster was shown at the CCiC
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Figure 19: the Certificate of Participation of CCIC

The Conference of China iGEMer Community started on August 18th. In the conference, we can know the projects of other teams in detail, so as to compare the progress of our project. And we found that our experiment progress is slower than that of other teams. In the conference, Judges put forward some suggestions about HP: They believed that HP should be integrated into the project. And in the part of report and interview, we should report what we communicated, learned and influenced in detail. Judge also said that a good education needs to be differentiated, not only with photos, but also with videos of activities. So we made some improvements on HP.

iGEM Online Meeting

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Figure 20: Our poster of iGEM Online Meeting

On July 8th, we received invitations from HBUT-China to attend the "iGEM Online Meeting". In this exchange meeting, we recognized HBUT-China and found that their project could cooperate with us. For example, their production also related to antioxidants, which promoted our communication and cooperation.

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