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Attribution

Project Design and Wet Lab Experiments

Under the supervision of Prof. Zhu Xudong, Prof. Yang Dong, and Prof. Xiang Benqiong etc, nearly all team members have taken part in the project designing process, especially those of wet lab group.Beichen Gao , Yuanyi Dai , Yufei Cao and Jia Li are the group leaders who mainly design the experimental patterns and guide the different parts of the experiments.

Modeling

Cheng Li is the leader of modeling group, who mainly enrolled in designing the device 2.0. Yuan Yin , Qiuyue Yuan and Xueting Zhao also do a great many works in the modeling group, such as information searching, paper writing and equipment appilication.

Wiki Construction

Jiajun Zhang , who has led the web design group to build the wiki, together with group members Zhiyao Chen and Chengfei Peng complete the main work in database construction and maintenance.

Graphic design

Lu Xu( group leader), Lee and Yalei Cao really do a fantastic work in graphic and web design. They all make great efforts in designing our team logo, website, poster, souvenir, T-shirt and so on.

Human practice

Meng Tang , the leader of human practice group, has organized a series of activities for Policy and Practice, like survey and publicize in some middle schools etc. Some group members as Yuanyi Dai,Jia Li , Jiajun Zhang , Beichen Gao , Zhiyao Chen , Jingyu Zhao , Xiaofei Feng also play a significant role in planning and organizing the activities . Other group members also take an active part in some other activities of human practice.

Collaboration

Our modeling can be divided into four parts. Firstly, in order to enable our project to be applied in life, we design a device placed in soil, which can attract and kill nematodes by modified engineering bacteria inside. Secondly, assuming there is a farmland, we take advantage of nematodes’ movement analogue simulation to find the best position where the device should be placed and the best concentration of attracting substance. Thirdly, according to this concentration, we obtain the best size of the device by calculating. At last, we establish a database to enlarge applied range of our method to kill other pests. We would appreciate that new synthetic biological and environment-friendly methods can be shared and improved with the science researchers all over the world.

Acknowledgement

Thanks:

Prof. Zhu Xudong, Prof. Yang Dong and Prof. Xiang Benqiong

Offered us much precious advice on the project.

Hao Xiaoran, Chi Xiaodong, Huo Liang, Ai Ying and Wang Xuan

Offered us advice on our experiments and helped us solve problems.

The College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University

Helped us do GC-MS.

Prof. Yang Chonglin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Offered us C.elegens and taught us how to cultivate them.

Prof. Li Hongmei of Department of Plant Pathology，Nanjing Agricultural University

Helped us to do Species identification of nematodes.

BIT-China & ZJU-China & FAFU-CHINA

Offered us some helpful advice and we also had a collaboration together.

Agricultural Service Center of Ceyu, Hebei Province

Helped us learn more information about the damage caused by local nematodes and villager’s attitude towards agricultural insecticide.

Shang Zhong National Middle School of Guizhou Province

Supported us in our voluntary education.

National Chiao Tung University &Peking University

Provided us opportunities to communicate with other teams.

Feng Xiaofei and her family in Hebei Province

Helped us get soybeans samples and did a survey in the locality.

Prof. Wang Yingdian

Discussed the bright future of our project with us.