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Collaborations

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In this iGEM season, our ASTWS-China team collaborated with other iGEM teams frequently throughout preparation for the contest. We have collaborated with ZJU-China, Worldshaper-XSHS, Worldshaper-Shanghai, HZNFHS_Hangzhou, and XHD-WS-Wuhan-A, XHD-WS-Wuhan-B in several forms, including hosting Meets up, lab collaborations, and hosting public activities.

Collaborations in Holding high school Meets up in Hangzhou

In July and August, our team, together with ZJU-China, Worldshaper-XSHS, hosted a hangzhou Meetup called the First iGEM X High School.

We, ASTWS-China, are mainly responsible for meeting preparation (such as venue reservation and refreshments purchase, the arrangement of the team and some publicity work. At the same time, we invited the judges of "After iGEM Community", who helped and inspired us a lot during this Meetup.

ZJU-China also became one of the co-sponsors of the Meetup event in Hangzhou. They contributed to meeting schedule, personnel arrangement and service work. Moreover, they successfully invited a couple of experienced college and undergraduate iGEM teams to the Meetup event, mostly as examples of mature projects to the high school teams.

Worldshaper-XSHS also kindly helped us prepare the signature wall, brochures, and posters for the Meetup and advertised for it in local Hangzhou iGEM teams as well. They were one of the co-sponsors to the event too.

Collaborations in Lab

Mid July, we surprisingly found Worldshaper-XSHS in the same building, the College of Life Sciences of Zhejiang University, as we were doing our experiments. Immediately, we started to contact more often. We learned and shared our topics at first and always called out to each other when helps needed. ASTWS-China also had the chance to teach Worldshaper-XSHS how to use plate readers in the lab to measure OD-600 to determine the growth of strains. Moreover, they also shared us some specific methods and ways about iGEM team working.

Meet up with ZJU-China

Late June, we had our first official meeting with ZJU-China to share our topics chosen for the year, and we kept in contact with them as the program proceeds. Members of ZJU-China served as great mentors to us high school students, we learned how they planned out the whole program ahead, and also a lot of lab techniques from them too.

Furthermore, ZJU-China also kindly attended our science public and education activity in Hangzhou as well, and helped publicizing the knowledges of synthetic biology and also their topic for iGEM this year. See next collaboration part in this page for details.

Collaboration in public activities

In order to draw public attention about daily antibiotics use and attract more talented individuals to the field of synthetic biology and bioengineering. To make the event more attractive and interesting, we organized public event at Hangzhou Low carbon science and technology museum China together with Worldshaper-XSHS, ZJU-China, Worldshaper-Shanghai, XHD-WS-Wuhan-B, and HZNFHS_Hangzhou. We have jointly completed the venue layout and publicity work. Our team also do several works like connecting with all teams and the contact person of Hangzhou Low carbon science and technology museum China. For our workshop, we teached over 100 teens biology such as molecule structure and extracting DNA from fruits , which is the most popular part of our events.

Apart from these two team (ZJU-China, Worldshaper-XSHS) that we closely came in contact with, we also thank all the teams that took their time to attend the Meetup event in Hangzhou, and kindly shared their result to everyone else. Many gave feedbacks that they received useful advices from their peers and advisors.