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Why we choose termites?

Termites are widely recognized as the 5th pest around the world, based on its astonishing number and incredible damage towards wood. Given that a termite weighed 1 gram, then everyone should own 500 thousand termites! Owing to their wood-eating habits, termites are terminators of crops, trees, buildings, river dams； and more often, spoil people’s life.

Our new system of termite terminator

IGEM ZJU-CHINA 2015 has created TERMITE TERMINATOR, a genetically modified toxins expression system with a delivery carrier CNC (cellulose nanocrystals), capable of trapping termites based on their trophallaxis.

Results and Application

We have successfully overexpressed avermectins in streptomyces avermitilis and achieved toxins manufacture in E.coli to kill termites. To trap effectively, we prepared cellulose nanocrystals (CNC), and generated the nanofibrous microspheres self‐assembled from CNC as bacteria carriers. Additionally, a device has been designed. With the help of modeling, preliminary experience of the device has been made to prove its effect.

For better

• For better application effect

  We are termite terminator. Our completed models aim at product manufacturing and devices placing , which play a part in application . With artificial intelligence group simulation(Model 1) , customers obtain the optimal bait location . With the Physicochemistry process (Model 2 and model 3) we present , Manufacturers can control their production accurately by adjusting key factors .

• For better use in the future

  Based on current references, ZJU-CHINA 2015 designed the indoor device to achieve monitor, trap, and terminate termites successfully.Focusing on the potential wider impacts of our application, a series of warnings have been added to the Instruction Manual can be proposed. In the commercial part, we made the promotion part to smooth future consumers' acceptance of our product.

• For better promotion

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• For better project and scenarios

  IGEM is not only a scientific competition. Since we are casting the synthetic biology on the real world problem, it forces us to consider about the ethical, legal, religious and social problems. Thus we collaborate with Synenergene, who aims at fostering responsible research and innovation in synthetic biology. The writing process of application scenarios and techno-moral vignettes prompts us to ground the plausibility and desirability of applications envisaged in our iGEM project.