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CPU Bio-X Club, the first student-based school organization for life sciences of China Pharmaceutical University, was established by our senior schoolmates—2017 CPU_CHINA iGEMers . Thank them for all their effort. Our club aims to promote iGEM, trainnew iGEMers and provide an academic exchange platform for allstudents who are interested in life sciences. In order to do that, we organizevarious activities throughoutthe whole year on campus. Journal Club (JC)is held every week. Each time one of our club members presents a recent article in the biomedical literature and/ora former iGEM case. Sometimes weinvite faculty members to talk about their researches. Before the eventwe inform our schoolmates of the specific materials to be discussed with a poster. All who are interested are welcome.After the presentations, audience are allowed to raisequestions and give opinions of their own.

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Figure1. The Journal Club

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Figure2. The propaganda poster of JC

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Apart from JC, we try to organize novel activities to get more people involved. Last year we had “Academic Debate Contest”. For this year, we organized the activity “Surviving in the BioValley ”. It was anorienteering event but combined with quiz of synthetic biology, molecular biology and biochemistry. This activity emphasized public engagement and allowed all participants to broaden their biological knowledge in an entertaining way. There were about 200 people participated in the activity.

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Figure3.Surviving in the BioValley

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After the activity, we helped our junior schoolmates hold a recruitment for 2019 iGEM team. We interviewed more than 20 students and selected those who are talent in academic, mathematic modeling and art design.

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Figure4. The recruitment for 2019 iGEM team.

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Surviving in the BioValley was an orienteering event but combined with quiz of synthetic biology, molecular biology and biochemistry, which allow all participants to broaden their biological knowledge in an entertaining way. There is no need for the participants to worry that they can't solve the problems. Every team is allowed to research the answers by various?ways, such as finding answers in the books, Internet and so forth. The fastest team finish all the games will be the biggest winner. Now, let's begin the game!

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Figure1. Many of the schoolmates applied to join in the activity

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The first stop is the synthetic biology venue. Here we borrow the projects of Fudan team and SDU_CHINA team in 2017 iGEM. In the first project, you need to construct the "stripe" to response to different intensity signal input. In the other project, you should construct two plasmids based on CRISPR technique to cleave PD-L1 gene in cancer cells and make sure they are safe for normal cells simultaneously. The guide will tell you the function of every part. If you can't decide how to construct the plasmids, you can skip this part, but with total time increasing 20 minutes.

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Figure2. The players are constructing plasmids to cleave PD-L1 gene

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The second stop is the venue of molecular biology. In this level, you can engage in Dodgeball of gene. Choose a theme, then knock the uncorrelated cups down with a ball. For example, in transcription theme, there are seven cups marked with telomerase, enhancer, promoter and so on. So you need to knock down the cups labeled with telomerase.

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Figure3. Dodgeball of gene

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Now, we arrive at outdoor venue of the biochemistry theme. There are two tasks, Draw something and Bio-hopscotch, that you need to accomplish. Draw something is the game that one person draw some required biochemical terms like t-RNA, chromosome, and the other guess what the picture is. One who paints can't speak or write any words. Bio-hopscotch test the gamer's knowledge of biochemical reactions. You can choose lower difficulty of Draw something for five questions to match higher difficulty of Bio-hopscotch of glycolysis and Kreb's cycle. Or higher difficulty of Draw something for eight questions match lower difficulty of Bio-hopscotch of Hatch-Slack Cycle. This outdoor activity also attracted many passersby to engage in it.

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Figure4. The students are researching which step the metabolism reaction is

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Figure5. The metabolic substance

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During the activity, we also interviewed the participants, asked them some questions about synthetic biology and introduced iGEMas well assynthetic biology to the participants in a professional way. Let’s listen what they said .

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