As we mentioned in our background, there is a number of microorganism in our daily life. This year our team focuses on the microbe pollution in our laboratory, which may cause by abandoned pipettetips, waste of medium, diverse biological reagent and so on. And the stink releases by the garbage gives us intuitive feelings and bothered us.
After we learnt about the characterization of PLA and 2-PE, we would like to give this problem a nice try.

To integrate public opinions and concerns into the scientific process is increasingly important as new biological inventions could influence the humanity as a whole, the environment and our coexistence with nature. In our project, we encountered a problem, it is not clear what the most favorable concentration of 2-PE. To seek answer and integrate people’s opinions into our project, we designed the “smell game” to get the public involved, which we prepared different concentration of 2-PE, 3M2H and some other substances to let people smell and knew about their feelings. From the feedback, we found the majority of people think 10mmol/L of 2-PE is the most pleasant, and which guided us to improve our experiment. (More details on our Integrated HP page)

During the 110th anniversary of our school

In 2017, we welcomed our school’s 110th anniversary, when tens of thousands of people from all over the world came to our school to celebrate 110th birthday of FJNU (Fujian Normal University) together. It was the most lively and biggest gathering in our school, and we seized the opportunity to hold a public activity, engaging the public in showing the possibilities of synthetic biology and getting more people to know about iGEM. We made some posters about previous excellent projects for exhibition and designed some interesting games to introduce iGEM and synthetic biology. Our activity finally turned out to be a great success, more people learned about what iGEM is and what we can do with synthetic biology.

Calling for environmental protection

In the process of conducting our project, we found that the unpleasant smell and environment of garbage can surrounding us is not paid much attention, but that does have an influence on people’s lives. We organized a public activity in cooperation with volunteer association, to popularize knowledge of waste sorting and appeal to the public to try their best to protect the environment, which we prepared intriguing games and propaganda posters.

the first iGEM Eurasian meetup 2018

We participated in the first iGEM Eurasian meetup 2018 in Shenzhen, where we firstly presented our project on a more formal occasion. As the team representing our school to participate in iGEM for the first time, we constantly communicate with obvious experienced iGEMers and sought advice from experts during the conference. There had we also a collision of ideas with other teams.

the 5th CCiC

We took part in the 5th CCiC (Conference of China iGEMer Community) in Shanghai, which is the biggest gathering of iGEMers in China, aiming to promote the development of synthetic biology and improve the connectivity and communication of nationwide iGEM teams. On the conference, we made a preview and experienced the atmosphere of Giant Jamboree in advance. Also we established good friendship with other teams and got lots of useful advice to improve our project.

Communicate with other teams

It is of great importance to share experience and exchange ideas with others, which makes iGEM more wonderful and helps us find out our shortcomings. This year, we communicated and collaborated with many teams. (More details on our Collaborations page)