Team:USTC-Software/Human Practices
Human Practice
Science and Technology Week
Science and Technology Week is is a large-scale, centralized science popularization campaign organized by the China University of Science and Technology. This year, Science and Technology Week attracted over ten thousand citizens to USTC, varying from innocent pupils, high school students and college students in biology-related majors to the public from all walks who may have limited knowledge of Synthetic Biology. Our team cooperated with Team USTC and offered visitors a feast of biological knowledge and a chance to cultivate interest in biology.
We introduced elementary knowledge of genetics to citizens by poster presentation and our explanation, then showed them some basic experiment operation, like liquid relief, centrifugation and etc. We educate and inspire visitors' interest by allowing them to observe biochemical-related sections under a laboratory microscope. In addition, we distributed questionnaires to visitors to get their feedback on synthetic biology to improve our design of our software.
Student Open Source Conference
The Student Open Source Annual Meeting is the first open source technology summit in China that is organized by student organizations. The main theme of the conference is understanding, participating in, and contributing to open source. Our team signed up for this annual meeting.At the meeting, our team leader and a team member worked together to complete the report on our iGEM project. We introduced the iGEM competition and the synthetic biology to the audience.At the same time, we also introduced the positive significance of our project to synthetic biology to the audience. We received useful feedbacks and technology-improvement suggestions from audience.
Integrated Human Practice
Asia-Pacific Conference in Taiwan
We attended International Genetically Engineered Machine Conference held by National Chung Hsing University from July 30th to August 3rd 2018. Over 20 iGEM teams attended the conference and 5 members of our team was sent to Taiwan.
During the conference, the iGEMers communicated, changed ideas and learned from one another. The conference is not only a simple warm-up for the upcoming world championship in Boston, but an Asian regional platform for teams from different countries to exchange ideas and explore synthetic biology as well. All the teams made a project presentation and introduced their projects. In this way, we received useful feedbacks and technology-improvement suggestions from students and professors of other teams.
Software Promotion
Since our software is an open and fantastic platform with practical functions for synthetic biologists, it’s of great importance to promote our software to synthetic biology related users.
To find out whether our improvement above is useful or not, We packed up an alpha version distributing to schoolmates whose major is biology in September. And in October we packed a more advanced version to some igem teams worldwide. We introduced them to Bioeditor and its basic usage. After they had used this software for a while, most of them reported that it was quite useful. And then we have packed our completed version to the real synthetic biologists by now.