Team:TJU China/Silver
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How Did We Start?
After we decide to do with the CRISPR-Cas system, we start to think about how can we combine our lab work with the world.
Firstly, as we all know China is a developing country, a large number of pollutions are inevitable, especially some heavy metals in water from metal factories. Secondly,
cancer is always a big problem around the world, comparing
to paying lots of money on the low chance of curing it, the prediction seems to be more significant. So
with our theory of gene editing and detection, two embryonic thoughts of our projects related to the society came
out, which are “heavy metal detection in the water” and “high throughput screening of cfDNA of cancer.
Communications
During the time we are working on the projects, Junjing Chen went to the 2018 Eurasian meetup to communicate with other
teams. Chenbo Sun went to Nankai University for a communication which was attended by nine teams. We took an active
part in the first iGEM Eurasian meetup co-organized by TU Delft and BGI college in Shenzhen, which several other
teams participated including EPFL, Tongji, HKU and so on. The meetup schedule is similar to that of Giant Jamboree,
which offered us an opportunity to practice presenting our project. Through the Eurasian meetuo and communication
in Nankai University, we received useful suggestions on how to improve our projects, and we firmly believe that we
will do better in the future. Furthermore, we also established strong relationships and built collaboration with
buddy teams. We received other teams’ advice and figured it out that we can turn our work into products or make the
results useful to every person, not only to the entire society.
Figure 1. Junjing Chen illustrates our projects to other teams.
Figure 2. Communicate with others about different projects .
Figure 3. IGEM Eurasian Meetup.
Figure 4. IGEM team communications in Nankai University.
Future Prospects
With the results and information we got, we began to model our projects. Since nobody knows how to develop a model, we
contacted prof. Mario A. Marchisio from SBSD of Tianjin University, who is an expert in synthetic biology. We communicated
by emails and also get suggestions when talking to him face to face. Once our projects work, we may develop them
into products including heavy metal detection and cancer detection in the future.