All the communication groups in the project can be summarized as stakeholders. These people are the fulcrum of the project framework, which we summarize as a stakeholder map to fully demonstrate the relevant populations.
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Internal communication within the iGEM community is a necessary requirement for development, which is applicable to any organization. And updates and iterations within the community contribute to the endogenous progress of iGEM.
Continuing with the DUT-2022 project, the components have been utilized and improved, since we are concerned with continuous development and progress. This is not only an in-depth expansion of the project technology, but also a greater contribution to iGEM community components.
We participated in the 11th Conference of China iGEMer Community (CCIC). We learned from multiple projects by listening their shared reports, and then searched for teams that are closely related to our project for communication. Of course, as participants, we showcased our project in front of various project teams and attracted similar teams to discuss and exchange ideas. For example, we exchanged the project details and experimental experience with members of the wet experiment team from Wuhan University, and exchanged HP's new ideas and strategies with members from Beijing Normal University. In the same way, we learned cool analytical methods from Tsinghua University. There are also teams from Jilin University, Shandong University, and other related teams. In a word, our communication obviously had a positive effect on both sides.
In addition to the contribution to the iGEM community on components (link: Components section), we have innovatively proposed two new modules: "use of AI" and "communication summary".
Use of AI: The development of artificial intelligence and the emergence of ChatGPT have made searching for information, writing, and making plans more convenient and faster. We have also found that more and more teams are using AI in dry experiments, wet experiments, HP, experimental records, and other sections. Therefore, we have decided to add this section to the wiki to showcase the positive impact and changes that artificial intelligence has brought to our project, and to provide new ideas and templates for future iGEMer.
Communication summary: We found that conducting IHP involves a lot of communication and cooperation, including mutual communication within the team, seeking external help and consultation from experts, and conducting necessary research and popularization for the project. Even if some communications are pre-designed, some of them also come with spatial randomness and temporal disorder. This may result in the omission of information when viewing our wiki. Therefore, we designed this summary communication module to more comprehensively showcase all the communication scenarios involved in the project, in order to have a more complete understanding of our project. We hope this innovation can provide new ideas for other iGEM teams.
We make full use of online shared documents, write daily work reports (pictures), and record the progress of experiments completed and the experimental methods used every day. This is beneficial to communication and coordination within the wet experimental group, as well as for subsequent summary work, making it easier for teachers to guide the experiments. By deploying experiment arrangements in advance, we can maximize time and human resources, and thus complete experiments more perfectly.
Since the establishment of the team, we have regularly conducted internal reports within the group, with each department reporting project progress and achievements, as well as the work to be carried out on a two-week cycle. When reporting, we invite our supervisor to the site to provide guidance on the content of our report, so that we can promptly identify and correct any deficiencies or errors. At the same time, the group meeting is also an opportunity for members of each project team to communicate offline. How can wet experiments guide dry experiments? How do dry experiments guide wet experiments? What are the confusions in dry and wet experiments that need to be solved by HP? The work of various departments is better integrated through offline communication.
HP provides precise guidance for conducting dry and wet experiments, which verify and guide each other's contents. The presentation of all project results requires tacit cooperation and comprehensive communication among project team members. Our communication isn't limited to staff meetings. We have created relevant group chats including all members to promptly report any issues and seek help from advisors for resolution.