Recipe Details

Through our human practice activities and discussions with pregnant mothers, we learned that they were hoping to compile a DHA formula suitable for babies to support the development of the baby's nervous system and retina. To this end, we combined the suggestions of nutritionists and designed a supplement formula for babies aged 1-5 years and published it on the internet. By cleverly incorporating DHA-rich ingredients into your baby's diet, you can help your baby get important nutrients.

Software Details

We have successfully optimized the UniKP enzyme model and developed a simple front-end interface. This user-friendly platform allows users to input their enzyme sequences and instantly receive the optimized enzyme sequences based on the model's output. The significance of this development lies in its ability to streamline the process of enzyme sequence optimization, making it more accessible for researchers and scientists. By simplifying the workflow, we are enabling faster and more efficient enzyme design, potentially accelerating advancements in biotechnology and other related fields. In our work of modeling and optimizing enzyme activity this year, we found that traditional methods were more complicated, we read articles extensively, we found Dr. Luo Xiaozhou's unikp model, we optimized the unikp model, and finally, users only need to input the sequence to obtain the optimized sequence, providing new ideas for traditional modelers

Synthetic Comic Details

This year, XJTLU-CHINA collaborated with JLU-NBBMS, CAU-CHINA, SUSTech-Med, JLU-CP, HainanU-CHINA, DKU-iGEM and Peking HSC to publish eight issues of synthetic biology comics by eight teams. Each team starts from a different application scenario of synthetic biology to communicate complex scientific concepts to a wider audience in a simple, intuitive, and fun way.

Promotion Manual Details

XJTLU-CHINA produced a brochure for the iGEM project, which was widely disseminated in the university, and we presented the team's research results and innovations to the public, academics, and potential partners. Through the brochure, we can effectively communicate the project's core concepts, technological breakthroughs and application prospects to attract more attention and support. At the same time, the production of the brochure also helped the team to hone its scientific communication and promotion skills, enhance its image, and lay the foundation for future collaborations, resource acquisition, and project continuation. Ultimately, this not only promotes the development of the project itself, but also promotes the popularisation and communication in the field of synthetic biology.

Volunteer teaching in poor primary schools

We are concerned that there are several primary schools for the children of migrant workers in Suzhou, which tend to be more backward in terms of facilities and quality of education. So, we are planning to go to one of these schools - Suzhou Zangnan School for Volunteer Teaching

In the lecture, our team members introduced the types of microorganisms from our daily life, such as bacteria, fungi, and algae. We emphasize that microbes are everywhere: in the air, in the soil, on our skin and even in our stomachs. Hearing us describe it in this way, the students became frightened. We continued to explain to them that there are good and bad microorganisms, beneficial microorganisms such as probiotics, which help us to digest our food, but we also need to be aware of the harmful microorganisms in our lives, such as germs, which can make people sick and can be passed on to other people through coughing, sneezing, and touching food with dirty hands. Then, we took them through the concept of vaccines by explaining how to protect themselves from harmful microorganisms, and finally, we introduced some examples of synthetic biology by explaining that microorganisms in the soil can help plants grow and are an integral part of agriculture

After the talk, students gathered around, and we prepared succulents for them. We told them that succulents are easy to survive and tenacious, symbolizing the resilience and health of life, and in this way, we wanted to help them understand the cycle of life in nature. In addition, we also distributed three fairy tale pages that we had written, and the children said that they were very interesting and could understand the meaning of synthetic biology

Biosafety Exhibition

This event attracted about 30 students and parents to attend. The exhibition was divided into two parts, the first part was the bio-invasion prevention and control exhibition, which mainly demonstrated the work of the Customs, and the second part was the biodiversity exhibition, which mainly demonstrated biodiversity.

In the first part, we first explained the history of quarantine to bring students and parents to understand what is the national biosecurity, we also gave students and parents a physical display of important foreign organisms intercepted over the years, microorganisms that cannot be seen with the naked eye, we through the high-definition display system, clearly on the screen to see the specimens of the subtle morphological characteristics, in order to let children experience the work of the Customs staff. We arranged the container quarantine which is the key concern in quarantine work on the spot, and helped the experiencers to experience the daily work of the customs inspectors by observing whether there are weed seeds, ant paths in the containers themselves, and whether there are holes in the wooden packages for the aspens to bore holes, and we also designed a simulation area of the work of the postal inspectors, to help the experiencers to understand what is allowed to enter the country and what is not, and in the second part we arranged the Seed Wall, Butterfly Wall and Insect Wall to demonstrate biodiversity.

Summer Programme

On the 28th of June, we published the recruitment information for the Summer Experience Camp, hoping to give freshmen who have just entered university the opportunity to learn and understand synthetic biology. After our launch, many students showed interest in the activity, so we successfully held the Summer Experience Camp.

In our summer experience camp, on the first day, we invited a PhD student of Biological Science from Xi 'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and the coach of the XJTLU-CHINA team to explain the principles of synthetic biology. We also invited the XJTLU-CHINA 2022 team leader to teach the students how to build a complete iGEM project.

On the second day, we partnered with Duke Kunshan University and invited them to present a practical case study of the bioremediation track to our students. In addition, our team members actively presented our project, and we actively discussed our project with the participating students. They questioned our method of measuring enzyme activity. Inspired by them, we actively read the literature and chose a more efficient method of measuring enzyme activity - the enzyme coupling reaction method.

After the second day, we collected the opinions of the students who expressed their interest in iGEM SPACE-related track content, so we contacted the Space Track team extensively and finally found the Dulwich High School team in Suzhou with us. Dulwich High School is focusing on the Space Track this year, and we hope to cooperate with them, which provide a channel for the summer camp students to understand the Space Track.

On the third day, we went to Dulwich High School together to learn the Space Track with the Dulwich High School team, we learned that the Space Track needs to solve the challenges of future human exploration in space, and we also tried to negotiate a new space treaty with the Dulwich High School team.

At the end of the summer camp, the students all expressed their deep understanding of the iGEM competition and synthetic biology, and their desire to participate in next year's iGEM competition. Some students even created a ppt to share their achievements.

SynBio Details

After we presented our project on campus, we created a synthetic biology community, students from different majors expressed their desire for a more in-depth event to help them learn what synthetic biology is, therefore, we held a synthetic biology event with SynBio as the theme, firstly, we showed the students the BioBricks Guidebook that we made to help them understand the concept of synthetic biology parts, based on this, we explained to the students what gene lines are and how to construct them, secondly, in order to demonstrate more intuitively how to search for parts in an igem project, we contacted the NJU-CHINA , and with their permission we were able to use their AI software to search for parts quickly, the students were very interested in the students showed great interest in the integration of synthetic biology and ai and gave us feedback on their experience. Finally, we held a discussion on whether we should use synthetic biology to produce dietary supplements. The students from social sciences and business actively expressed their opinions on cost, ethics, and safety, and emphasized the need to ensure the safety of our products and to meet the stringent regulatory requirements, and the need to ensure the safety of the products. They emphasized that we need to ensure that our products are safe and meet stringent regulatory requirements, and that we need to go through a series of safety standards and certification procedures by international regulatory bodies such as the FDA and EFSA to ensure that synthetic biology products undergo stringent safety tests before they are introduced to the market, while Biology students expressed their concerns about our project in terms of the technical difficulties involved, which they believed lay in the purification of high purity and active proteins in different buffer environments. Through this seminar, both sides explored the unification issues under different perspectives and ways of thinking, promoted the mutual learning of knowledge and views, and inspired the XJTLU-CHINA team to think about this project in a brand-new way.