Team:SDSZ China/cf

iGem SDSZ_China 2018

WHAT IS CHITIN

Human Practice Time line

Human Practice timeline

1. Visit a fishing village.

- See the process of catching lobsters and get to know
the treatment with lobster shells.
-Impact: realized that most of the lobster shells were abandoned and were not put into industrial production.

2. Visit a factory that produces food with lobsters.

- Investigate how much lobster shells can be left after the rounds of production.
- Impact: more than 50% of the shells are left unused after the production.  we confirmed that our project is applicable in reality for the useful resources of lobster shells (raw material) from different sources.

3. Visit pharmaceutical company in Xi’an
- Gain a more complete view of the chemical production of chitosan & the problems of the current treatment & interview the staffs, ask their opinions about our design.
- Impact: realized the deficiencies in chemical production (water pollution, energy cost, high demand of laborers, low efficiency)
4. Visit Biotechnology company in Suzhou
- To ask for feedbacks and instructions on solving a problem we encountered in experiment.
- Impact: Introduced us with a new plasmid and QS system. Gave us instructions and suggestions on the conduction our experiment.

5. Second visit to the Biotechnology company
- Demo test to potential users & gain feedback from them
- Impact: We received positive comments and data from the users and gained inspiration to modify our machine according to realistic production.

6. After iGEM
- We are planning to revisit the company to show them our modified version of machine, make further adjustments and put our machine into use in industry.