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.