Team:SJTU-BioX-Shanghai/team

Team

The 2010 SJTU-Bio-X iGEM team is composed of many fancy guys who held great passion toward biology, especially the emerging field of synthetic biology. Though we may come from similar background, we have various interests and strong points. We are happy that we cooperate with each other and fulfill our achievement together. We make it!

Recalling the first time we met up in a small classroom, the enthusiasm filled the whole room. We even came up with small crazy ideas at the first discussion. Later on, the team met up once a week, shared with each other the new thoughts upon intensive paper reading. To our great surprise, we almost had one idea a time raised by various team members during the meeting.

The day on which we decided upon our final project idea, we held a meeting lasting a whole day, with our advisors as well as our former team members. It is a really hard decision for us to carry out the eukaryote part. The silence was broken when one of the team member spoke out a word, “it is the time that we no longer follow others and try something new in the unclaimed field, however difficult it is!” Soon, the atmosphere changed as if he came up with something that is under the heart of everyone. Thus, we finally made up our mind to engage our eukaryote part into the whole OA project.

When we got the cheerful news from our team members that are responsible for the cell experiment that we have proved to some extent the effectiveness of our designed circuit in the eukaryote system, we celebrated together upon the determination of taking the challenge at the beginning.

Members & Instructors

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Acknowledgements

Bio-X Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) is recombined and founded in 2005. The director of Bio-X Institute now is Professor HE Lin, who is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Bio-X Institute offers us its laboratory, meeting room and equipments in Bones and Developmental Biology Base of Minhang Campus, which is quite easy and convenient for us. Meanwhile, it supports us 2 instructors and many nice postgraduates to help with our designing and experiments.

We also extend our gratefulness to all the teachers and labs that have rendered us great help.

	Professor Dabing Zhang, Plant Molecular Biology and Biosafety Lab
	Professor Xiang Xiao, Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources
	Professor Ping Xu, Food and Environment Biology, Chemical Biology