Team:CIEI-BJ/Collaborations
CIEI-BJ hosted a summer meet up for team interaction
At the early stage of our project preparation, when we have just decided our project’s goal, our team-CIEI-BJ-has invited team BIT-China, team BFSUICC-China, team USTBeijing and team The Colorful Ladies together to exchange ideas and have a discussion at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. We also invited a journalist from China Science and Technology Daily came and recorded the events and interviewed some team members. As the host, we are honored to have team mentors and professional instructors pointing out our advantages and weaknesses to be improved.
During the meeting, we listened to the presentation by team BIT-China about “who can get an A” at first. Then, it is team BFSUICC-China to share about their topic, biological toolkit for lead detection. Team The Colorful Ladies, showed us their project which discuss about treatment of diseases related to LPL. Finally, team CIEI-BJ from ITCCC, as the main organizer, talked about our project which is detection and degradation of aflatoxin.
Thanks for the help provided by team USTBeijing, we can become a better us. They gave us lots of useful suggestions when we are coming up with the design and protocol of our experiments. We received help from them in further steps of our project later and we continued to discuss our problems with them. Them were glad to help and we got to know what they are doing and gave help as long as we can.
We received lots of valuable suggestions from team mentor of BFSUICC-China, Mrs. Du Hongmei, and our advisors have also gave advice to other teams to help their improvement. From the communication, we have gained precious experience and we became more confident about what we are doing.
With BFSUICC-China
BFSUICC-China instructor, Mary Du gave us valuable advice about the adjustment of experiment scheme, the ways of human practice at the meet up . After the summer meet up organized by our team, we often communicated with the members of BFSUICC-China through Wechat or telephone. During our experiment, we needed to use chromatograph to measure the amount of aflatoxin. During BFSUICC-China’s experiment, they needed to use plate reader to measure fluorescent intensity and OD 600. We often discussed with each other on the Instrument usage and procedure. Mary Du often communicated with Xiaoxia Qu about part requirement, part submission, wiki editing and so on.
CIEI-BJ & BFSUICC-China Conducted Experiments in the Lab
From July 11th to July 27th 2018, CIEI-BJ and UST Beijing performed an Interlab experiment in the laboratory of University of Science and Technology Beijing. As it was the first time for us, UST Beijing team instructed us to transfer the plasmid provided by the iGEM committee into the competent cells. We also borrowed their plate reader. Prior to the start of the experiment, CIEI-BJ deployed fluorescent agents (at the required concentration in the protocol) for both sides to perform the pre-experimental operation. In the process of experimental operation, the two teams often discussed on experimental operation steps and analyzed the problems in the experimental data. Finally, we all completed the Interlab experiment perfectly.
CIEI-Beijing & UST Beijing Performed an Interlab Experiment in the Lab of USTB
At the early stage of our project, former iGEMers from Beijing Institute of Technology helped us have an understanding of the requirements and spirits of iGEM and gave us many useful ideas during our discussions.
Former iGEMers-Bowen Xiao
Former iGEMers-BIT1
Former iGEMers-BIT2
CIEI-BJ hosted a summer meet up for team interaction