This year we tried to explore many new ways to introduce synthetic biology and iGEM as well as our project. Therefore we focused on multimedia advertising and active interaction with other Asian groups.

ACMA

2015.4.27-2015.6.14

Synthetic biology as a fairly young branch of biology is still foreign to the majority of Sichuan university, we started a contest named ACMA, short for Sichuan University-Architects Competition of Microorganism Application.

This contest aimed at introducing the area of synthetic biology to more students. Students were requested to hand in their own idea of a project. They were ranked by the innovation and feasibility of their idea, and the student who ranked first won the fund to realize his or her own project.

The school started introductory lectures on synthetic biology, and successfully invited students from fifteen schools to take part in the contest, including Electrical engineering, Medical school, Business school and so on.

We also built an information platform on Wechat, informing students with notices about the contest and some fun facts relating to biology.

An interview about synthetic biology

Chocolate Martini

Episode on May 19th

Radio Program of Foreign Language Radio Station of Sichuan University

This year our team was invited to a radio program called Chocolate Martini of Foreign Language Radio Station of Sichuan University to introduce synthetic biology and iGEM. We mainly focused on biosafety because it is so important for both we biological researchers and the public. This program was broadcasted by the radio station of Sichuan University and enhanced public awareness of synthetic biology and biosafety.

Multimedia advertising

Journal of Sichuan University

(ISSN 0490-6756 BM5974)

2015/6/23 659th issue

Ziyang Fu ; Yue Tang

SCU-China team was interviewed by the journalist of the Journal of Sichuan University. The paper was handed to every dorm room and school offices, greatly popularized iGEM to Sichuan University.

LAB Cards

We designed a card game to help our team members remember the strict lab rules that we adopted with a set of hand-made cards.

Group Theme Song

< Light of Life >

Our talented teammates worked out a disco music and was adopted as our group theme song, check it out!

Various Meet ups

Southwest Chinese Meet up in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

2015.7.25

Nannan Xie, Shiji Zhao, Yuhao Wang and Hongbin Yu attended the meet up in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). We helped established iGEM Southwest Union of China, which is a platform held for all the iGEMers working in the southwest region of China. The participants included iGEMers from Sichuan University, UESTC, Sichuan Agricultural University, Southwest University of Nationalities, Chengdu Shude High School and Biological Maker.

Meet up in Peking University

2015.8.14-2015.8.16

Shiji Zhao, Yuanfang Huang, Jie Ren, Pumiao Yan, Fangfang Lu attended the meet up in Peking University. 34 teams from Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Sichuan took part in this activity. Every team presented their idea and progress, and all collected valuable advice.

Discussion “Group to Group”

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

2015.7.26

Our team was invited to Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University to exchange ideas with experiment plans and modeling process. We also helped filming a video of their team.

University of Science and Technology of China

2015.5.3

Our team reached the team of University of Science and Technology to learn from their lab settings and modeling experiences.

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

2015.8.19

We invited the iGEM team from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China to our campus brain storming and exchanging ideas on our projects.