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Collarboration

As a competition encouraging cooperation, our team has established a partnership with the iGEM team of Nanjing University. Considering that both universities are originated from the National Central University and located in the same city, two teams often exchange ideas on research (not limited to iGEM competitions).

In the iGEM competitions of previous years, we conducted full exchanges and discussions on genes, molecular calculations, and data modeling. With mutual help, we improved our professionalism and promoted friendship.

In this year, NJU-iGEM has mainly developed a simple solo medium copy plasmid-based polyphosphate kinase (PPK1) overexpression strategy for achieving maximum intracellular polyphosphate accumulation by environmental bacteria. We put forward our views on data modeling, including data fitting for the overall process and solving differential equations for bacterial concentration changes. We provide a curve of the concentration of bacteria in the whole process of absorbing and releasing phosphorus and the concentration of elements in the solution. Then we give specific reference documents, and exchange opinions on the selection of variables and fitting parameters.

At the same time, our project focuses on the experiment based on DNA to achieve molecular calculations, which is a promising emerging technology. Meanwhile, we discuss the engineering ethics behind this technology with the members of NJU-iGEM.

We analyze how genetic engineering technology changes society. At the same time, we have discussed molecular computational techniques with high parallelism and recognition capabilities in chemical reactions.

Finally, we also cooperate in other areas such as the collaboration on IGEM's web design, the beautification of team clothing and logo, the airfare, and accommodation arrangements. Below is a photo of our SEU-NJU seminar.

The cooperation with NJU-iGEM is enjoyable and rewarding. I hope more teams will join the SEU-NJU seminar and expect the two teams to continue to cooperate in the IGEM competition next year.