Judging Criteria

In the past 9 months, we have gone through brainstorming, experimental design, biobrick combination, system verification, human practice and wiki making, ect. Through our hard work, our project has been greatly developed and we are fully prepared for the Giant Jamboree. We have submitted 12 biobricks and they are transiently transfected into different cell lines to verify the working efficiency of our system. What’s more, we performed our human practice with Cancer Mutual Aid Association, Shenzhen Sencond People’s Hospital and Moonbay Primary School. We also cooperate with Nankai and LZU-China. We believe we deserve Gold Medal since we have met all the requirements for it.

Standard Biological Part registration

We have designed and constructed 12 parts, including 6 basic parts and 6 composite parts. Among all this parts, three of them are improved from previously existing Biobrick Part or Device. All of these parts were well documented on the part registry pages. They are listed as follows:

hUPII(BBa_K1722000) is well documented in the registry and accepted. It is the highest quality basic part of our team and it deserves the Best Basic Part.

hUPII+AckRS(BBa_K1722007) is well documented in the registry and accepted. It is the highest quality composite part of our team and it deserves the Best Composite Part.

Human practice outside the lab

As we concerned, human practice is not only associated with the publicity of synthetic biology but also what significance we can achieve basing on our project. This year SZU IGEM team has conducted a survey and interviewed professor Mr Caizhiming to find that the patient’s psychological state would largely influence the process of cure.Referring to the Group psychotherapy, we organized a meetup and invited a few veterans on defending against cancer for the cancer patients to heal their isolation. From the meetup the patients learned the significance of a stable psychological state and receive care and encouragement from us. When seeing the patients from sobbing to burst into laughter, we felt obliged to make a difference in their lives.

Education and public engagement

As for the education,SZU IGEM team visited primary school students this year to illustrate the basic knowledge about synthetic biology and our project. It’s surprising for us to see their strong interest regarding to cancer,biology that some students came with more questions to ask after the lecture. Inspired and influenced by students’ passion, we decided to undertake to be their mentors on biological research and personal development. In terms of public engagement, we participated the Cultural Festival of Life and science in which exhibited our projects to the university students. Nevertheless we visited cancer patients in the hospital where we share our concerns and our project to extend hope for them.

Judging

Requirements for a Bronze Medal:

Register the team, have a great summer, and plan to have fun at the Giant Jamboree.

Successfully complete and submit this iGEM 2014 Judging form.

Create and share a Description of the team's project using the iGEM wiki and the team's parts using the Registry of Standard Biological Parts.

Plan to present a Poster and Talk at the iGEM Jamboree.

The description of each project must clearly attribute work done by the students and distinguish it from work done by others, including host labs, advisors, instructors, sponsors, professional website designers, artists, and commercial services. Please see the iGEM 2011 Imperial College Acknowledgements page for an example.

We have a clear division of labor and you click here will stick out a mile. Attribution

Document at least one new standard BioBrick Part or Device used in your project/central to your project and submit this part to the iGEM Registry (submissions must adhere to the iGEM Registry guidelines). Please note you must submit this new part to the iGEM Parts Registry. Please see the Registry help page on adding new parts. A new application and/or outstanding documentation (quantitative data showing the Part's/ Device's function) of a previously existing BioBrick part also counts. Please see the Registry help page on how to document your contributions. To fulfill this criteria, you will also need to submit the part with its original part name to the Registry, following the submission guidelines.

In last few months, we, students from SZU, gathered together, set up the SZU-China team and began our journey. And after a great effort, we successfully assembled eight biobricks parts and devices and all of them have been submitted to the Registry already. Furthermore, six of our biobricks have been proved to be functional and there is another one which is improved the function or characterization of an existing biobricks parts and devices.

Requirements for a Silver Medal:

Experimentally validate that at least one new BioBrick Part or Device of your own design and construction works as expected.

Document the characterization of this part in the Main Page section of that Part's/Device's Registry entry.

Submit this new part to the iGEM Parts Registry (submissions must adhere to the iGEM Registry guidelines)

iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, or intellectual property rights. Articulate at least one question encountered by your team, and describe how your team considered the(se) question(s) within your project. Include attributions to all experts and stakeholders consulted.

We based our project on the theme of sustainability. If our work be put into the industrial production, it will have the positive influence on the environmental protection.

Requirements for a Gold Medal:

Improve the function OR characterization of an existing BioBrick Part or Device (created by another team or your own institution in a previous year), enter this information in the Registry. Please see the Registry help page on how to document a contribution to an existing part.

Help any registered iGEM team from another school or institution by, for example, characterizing a part, debugging a construct, or modeling or simulating their system.

Besides the experiments we proceeded, we also communicated with SUSTC-ShenZhen and ETZ Zurich Igem team, helping them with several technical issues and a survey.Click here to moreCollaboration

iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, or intellectual property rights. Describe an approach that your team used to address at least one of these questions. Evaluate your approach, including whether it allowed you to answer your question(s), how it influenced the team's scientific project, and how it might be adapted for others to use (within and beyond iGEM). We encourage thoughtful and creative approaches, and those that draw on past Policy & Practice (formerly Human Practices) activities.

According to what we have accomplished , we believed that we accorded with what the gold metal required!