Team:ShanghaiTech China/Attributions

ShanghaiTech iGEM

The ShanghaiTech_China iGEM team was responsible for almost all aspects of running the team, from purchasing supplies, coming up with the project concept, to writing protocols, and executing the lab work. Help received from advisors and others is greatly appreciated and acknowledged below.

Special thanks and attributions go to:

General Support

Instructor: Associate Professor Haitao Yang, and Assistant Professor Wei Shen

Helped us during the whole process, including topic design, scheme preparation, theoretical analysis, project improvement, experiment and development and so on.


Eric Zhang (Senior undergraduate), Advisor

Provided early-stage training to new team members; assisted in human practice part; giving out ideas and education.

NAS Support

Haofeng Wang from Yang Lab

Guided plasmid synthesis.

Yinan Wang from Yang Lab

Guided SDS-PAGE.

Yinkai Duan from Yang Lab

Guided the bacteria culture and SDS-PAGE.

Light Control Support

Assistant Professor Chao Zhong

Allowed us to use his lab space as well as relevant experimental equipment and helped troubleshooting in the light-control parts.

Bolin An, Yi Liu, from Zhong Lab

Provided original pDawn plasmid and helped to troubleshoot the light-control parts, especially on characterization experiments.

Dongmin Xun from Zhong Lab

Suggested the light control idea for our project.



Hengchang Xie, Mengna Hu, from Shen Lab

Provided laser power meter Lp1 and offered advice on the sample operation for microscopic imaging.

Drug delivery Support

Assistant Professor Yifan Liu

Allowed us to prepare the agarose vesicles in his lab, and instructed us on the characterization of the vesicles.

Jie Li from Liu Lab

Assisted on the microfluid operation in the preparation of agarose vesicles.



Assistant Professor Shengjie Ling

Allowed us to prepare the silk fibroin in his lab, and advised us on the preparation of silk fibroin micrococoons.

Qiang Liu from Ling Lab

Assisted in the preparation of the silk fibroin.



Assistant Professor Jianfeng Li

Advised us on the selection of biocompatible material.



Kuer Shi, Lianghao Zhao and Fang Ba, from Zhong Lab

A lot of advice and protocols.



Assistant Professor Huanhu Zhu

Provided us with the plasmid psgkp-km-GFP of his lab.

Yangyang Qian and Na Li from Zhu lab

A lot of help with the microscope operation.

Biosafety Support

2019 UCAS-China iGEM team

Provided us plasmids, RGP-pCI434-TEVts18#-Amp, RGP-pCI434-TEVts6#-Amp, pSC101-pCI434(O2)-sfGFP-pdt#4-J23119-CI434ts(R2 #2)-TEVsite-Cm.

Haiying Wu from Zhong Lab

Provided us pBV220 with plasmid Gene E.

Imaging Support

Xiaoming Li, Ziwei Yang and Chengyu Fan, Engineer of Molecular Imaging Core Facility, School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University

Offered advice and arranged for training on the operation of Zeiss Axio Imager.Z2 Fluorescence Microscope for characterization, and advised on the analysis of the data.

Mass Spectrometry (MS) support

Jiakang Chen from the Lab of ADC Chemistry, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University

Provided us with data for MS sample making and helped us get the results of MS experiments.

Human practices support

Dr. Junfeng Han and Dr. Yin Yang from Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai JiaoTong University

Specialized knowledge support and clinical views about our project.

Dr. Yuqian Ma form University of Science and Technology of China

Suggestions on lighting module.

Associate Professor Wei Qi

Suggestions on drug delivery material.



iGEM club members of ShanghaiTech University, including

Shiyue Ding, Yimin Zhou, Yuyan Zhu

Art design for the video.

Yujie Wen

Video Producing.

Yifan Cao,Zhongyue Lin, Zhixin Fang, Yuxin Song

For the development of the computer game Cell War.



2019 TJUSLS_China iGEM Team

Suggestions on video theme.


ShanghaiTech China iGEM @ 2019