We treasure collaboration with other iGEM teams and institutions to strengthen the connection between our project and the community. These collaborations cover HP and education, with various forms. We actively learn from these collaborated works, absorbing feedback and then improve the project direction and public engagement. Our collaborated works include:

• Online and offline conferences
• Picture book
• Mini-game
• Handbooks of different styles
• Science Fair

We hope these collaborated works can foster collaboration and public engagement, creating a better iGEM community.

We arrived in Zhongguancun Exhibition Centre, Beijing on August 6^th to attend the 12^th CCiC and the 2^nd Synbiopunk!

Our group photo taken before the opening ceremony

Here, we shared our project with other iGEMers and experts. Through enthusiastic and friendly communication, we realized that it is important to explore the potential application of our project in the fundamental advance village, and they offered enormous valuable advice to help us adjust our project to better serve the community.

Haotian Guo offered guidance in front of our poster

Jiabo Cai explained our project to other iGEMers

Zhexu Jin and Yuening Zhu presented our project

CCiC gave us the chance to meet other teams. We were pleasantly surprised to find that teams such as HZAU and Jilin-China, have many aspects in their research directions that we can learn from each other, and there is great potential for future cooperation with us. We established cooperative relationships with some of them for the education and HP works to come. We also met our sponsor Yanyin Technology, who provided us with an online collaboration platform.

Group Photo of all CCiC Attendees

This is an undoubtedly meaningful experience for our project. Not only did we show our project to the synthetic biology community, but we also gained a lot in-depth feedback for our project design, which has profound impact on our work in the next few months.

On August 5^th, we attended the iGEM Seminar: Opportunities and Challenges of Engineered Living Medicines hosted by Peking iGEM team in Peking University. The meeting featured the opportunities, challenges, and future of engineered living medicines. Based on previous projects of NUDT-CHINA, Jiabo Cai shared our experience in the engineering of mammalian cells. Teams such as CUHK-Shenzhen and HiZJU-China shared their views on the safety problems, resistance and effectiveness of engineered living medicines.

This half-day seminar offered attendees comprehensive and valuable insights into engineered living medicines. From presentation to discussions, it significantly enhanced mutual understanding and trust among iGEMers.

Group photo from the iGEM Seminar

On September 16^th, SJTU-Software team hosted the 3i Engagement Online Conference. NUDT-CHINA, PekingHSC, NJU-China, XJTLU-CHINA, Tongji-China, Tsinghua-China attended this conference. The conference themed on "Innovation, Integration, Impact" to discuss better public engagement. Teams shared their works of education, HP and inclusivity.

After the conference, we all had a better understanding of public engagement. Based on these improvements, we co-authored the handbook 3i Engagement to offer guidance for future iGEMers and you can see it on our Human Practice Page.

3i Engagement Online Conference

From August to September, we co-authored a picture book for children with CAFA-Beijing and CJUH-JLU. The process of creation is not smooth. After several times of communication and revision, the final version has been released! From the creating process, we learned how to better better explain the concept of genetic engineering and arouse children's interest. You can click to see our picture book here.

Our collaborative picture book for children

From August to September, we made the mini-game Bio-Bounce with UTSC and Fudan. This game focuses on the main character's evolution through gaining and losing different genes. We discussed the name, form and content of the game by hosting an online meeting and voting. During several revisions in adjusting rules and fixing bugs, we learned how to explain the function of different genes and the process of evolution. Scan the QR code below to join in our game!

Bio-Bounce Mini-game interface

Trust in Dialogue: A Handbook for Building Warm and Effective Doctor-Patient Relationships

With SUSTECH-MED and SMU-Union-China

In September, we wrote this handbook with SUSTECH-MED and SMU-Union-China in order to guide humanistic, warm and effective doctor-patient communication. For this handbook, SUSTECH-MED provided the schedule of doctors and SMU-Union-China students provided their first-hand experiences during their internship. During the writing process, we learned more about the problems hindering effective doctor-patient communication and what should be done to clear them. You can see this handbook here.

Coordinated Development of Synthetic Biology and Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)

With BIT-CHINA and 2025 SCU-China

From August to September, we collaborated this handbook with BIT-CHINA and 2025 SCU-China. This handbook featured multi-audience, with a wide range of researchers, entrepreneurs, investors and governors, aiming to offer guidance to achieve Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) using synthetic biology approaches. BIT-CHINA is responsible for most writing work, while NUDT-CHINA and 2025 SCU-China are responsible for translation and visualization. During the writing process, we got to know more about current implementation of synthetic biology, and you can see this handbook here.

Collaboration with BIT-CHINA on SDGs Handbook

Handbook on Debunking Myths About Synthetic Biology

With 33 iGEM Teams

In August, we launched this concise and to-the-point handbook to alleviate doubts about synthetic biology among the public together with CJUH-JLU-China. We collected misunderstandings from the public, while CJUH-JLU-China corrected them. This process allowed us to know what people are thinking of synthetic biology and what we should do to fight against biases. (See the Education Page for details).

With the aim of increasing the general public’s acceptance of cell therapy and supporting the development of dynamic precision regulation therapy, we launched the “From Static to Dynamic Regulation” initiative in collaboration with Jilin-China, HZAU-China, and HainanU-China (See the Human Practice Page for details).

On September 21^st, we attended the Yuelu Mountain Science Fair hosted by Hunan Association for Science and Technology with CSU-CHINA and HNU-China in Yuelu Mountain Laboratory, Changsha, Hunan. This fair aims to spread science among people of all ages. The three teams prepared exhibits and souvenirs together. We did a lot of communication with the public during the fair, from students and experts to people outside of the scientific field. From communication with people from all walks of life, we learned what kind of communication and education activities tend to have more profound influence.(See the Education Page for details).

Yuelu Mountain Science Fair