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Team:Peking/HumanPractice/Outreach/Workshop
From 2012.igem.org
Summary
With the spirit of communication and cooperation, Peking 2012 iGEM team members organized several team communication activities, among which are the visiting to Team ZJU and Team OUC-China. We seriously discussed our projects and what we were doing on human practices.
PKU-UCSF Workshop
On July 25th to 29th, the Center of Quantitative Biology in Peking University and Center for System & Synthetic Biology in UCSF co-organized a challenge workshop among undergraduate, graduate, and post-doc students. Participants were divided into several teams discussing synthetic biological issues such as ontogenetic, micro-fluids, cell stress management, and cell size control. “The teams went through successive rounds of brainstorming, research and discussion, and then presented their ideas daily to the other teams for further critique and redirection.” (“Center Organizes Team Challenge Workshop with Peking University”)
Figure 10. PKU-UCSF Workshop.
Figure 11. Group photo of our team.
On July 25th, Peking 2012 iGEM team participated in the PKU-UCSF Workshop. We put up the poster and introduced our projects to other participants and professors. We also discussed with other participants on their projects. We got a chance to discuss with Director Connie M. Lee from UCSF. The conversation benefited us a lot.
Figure 12. A student from Tsinghua University is consulting our project.
Figure 13. Weiyue, from CQB in Peking University, is introducing us her project.
Figure 14. Group photo with Connie M. Lee, Associate Director of the Center for Systems & Synthetic Biology at UCSF.(On the back is our first version of poster.)
Figure 3. We had a nice dinner with ZJU iGEM team members!
On the following day, we went to the laboratory of ZJU 2012 team. Both teams got the chance to introduce their team members, give a presentation of the project they were working on. After discussing our projects, we began to introduce the theme of our human practice.
Figure 4. Hongyu Xiong (Shrine), the deputy leader of Peking 2012 Team, is introducing Peking’s project to ZJU’s members.
Figure 5. Yan Yan, a member of ZJU 2012 Team, is introducing ZJU’s project to Peking’s members. (Yan is on the right.)
In fact, before our arrival, we thought to work together on a project of Human Practice, addressing lectures related to iGEM and synthetic biology to high school students in Zhejiang Science and Technology Museum, as a continuation and expansion of our HP project Sowing Tomorrow Synthetic Biologists. We provided event planning and contacted with the person in charge of museum, ZJU designed and printed the post and tried to contact with teachers of several high schools in Hangzhou. However, due to summer holidays, it was difficult to call together high school students. At last, we had to give up this collaboration. However, we still motivated members of ZJU iGEM to continue propagating Synthetic Biology to high school students in Hangzhou. In fact, they did a good job after we came back to Beijing!
Figure 6. Tianqi Chen, team leader of ZJU 2012 Team, is discussing Human Practices project with us. (Tianqi is on the left.)
Visiting Team OUC-China
Our exchange of ideas with ZJU was very helpful to us, and we thought it would be a good idea to organize another outreach communication. From July 28th to 30th, the other team members went to Qingdao and had a serious discussion with Team OUC-China on projects and human practice.
Figure 7. Group photo of Peking and OUC-China iGEM team members.
Figure 8. We are visiting OUC-China’s laboratory.
Figure 9. Zhilei Zhao (Kimi), team leader of Peking 2012 Team, is discussing the Human Practices project with team leader of OUC-China.
