Team:SDSZ China/cf

iGem SDSZ_China 2018

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 feedback and instructions on solving a problem we encountered in the 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 the machine, make further adjustments and put our machine into use in industry.