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Nowadays, collaboration is a very important part for any successful project and iGEM is no exception. This summer, four iGEM team were working in the Zhejiang University Zijinguang Camps, including ZJU-China, ASTWS-China, HFLS_ZhejiangUnited and us. This advantage let us communicate and cooperate easily. Furthermore, for education and public engagement events, we have cooperated with more teams, such as Worldshaper-Wuhan, ZJUT-China and Jiangnan, some of which were even based in other province.

As high school teams, ASTWS-China, HFLS_ZhejiangUnited and us were all lack of using experiences of plate reader, moreover, neither of our labs had this equipment. Therefore, after discussion, we decided to borrow the plate reader as well as the take interlab measurement together, Dr. Huang Fangliang, the instructor of ASTWS-China team agreed to supervise the experiments

During the interlab measurement experments, we provided the ASTWS-China team with E. coli DH5a and 100μl silicon beads of better quality as well as gave HFLS team the transcriptional shaking table bacteria solution and some experimental equipment (chloramphenicol resistance, micro pipette tips, etc.). When our measurement data submission was refused by the Measurement Committee, both of these two teams helped us analysis the potential problems, and offered us the glycerin bacteria that we needed.

During the experiment, we lent ASTWS-China team kit1 and kit2, which enables its students to extract the useful DNA.

During the Collaborations, our research members visited HFLS_ZhejiangUnited team’s experiments and watched its members’ studying notes.

Because our conversion process——A procedure that obtaining the desired plasmid from the distribution kits—— always failed，we communicated with ASTWS-China team, eliminating the possibilities derived from operate miss and finding the cause of the problem: Homemade E. coli receptive state.

Collaborations with other teams

Collaboration with ZJU-China team.

The aspect about experimental problem: Because of the invalid homemade E. coli receptive state, we did experiments in the ZJU-China team’s laboratories by utilizing its commercial E. coli receptive state. This attempt provided enough opportunities for us to discuss the difference between the experiments, which exerted great advantage to solve such problems in the nest phase.

Before carrying out publicity activities, our team made comprehensive discussions with the ZJU-China team like establishing programs of activities, preparing materials, and decorating the venues.

Collaborations with social organizations