2014 2 15

Recruiting Propaganda

The last team organized a propaganda to recruit fresh members. The old ones introduced iGEM and share their experience with students from various colleges throughout Xiamen Universiaty.

2014 2 21

The Application and Screenings

Nearly 110 undergraduates signed up for XMU iGEM group, and the number was cut to 30 after rigorous screenings. The old members conducted two rounds of interview, and assigned homework, including papers reading, web page writing, etc, to applicants. No one was eliminated by the interview, while only those who had earnestly completed their homework stayed on with the team.

2014 3 9 

The 1st Brainstorming

All the candidates were divided to 12 groups, 3 to 4 in each. Every group thought out their own ideas, speculated the feasibility, and reported results. The gave them advise to develop their ideas.

2014 3 16

The 2nd Brainstorming & the Final Selection

The 12 groups were merged into 3 larger ones. After 2 weeks rethinking, they perfected their ideas. Every candidates were judged during the period from the very beginning, and 17 elites were selected.

2014 3 16

The 1st Regular Meeting

The members were grouped into idea, human practice and art designing. Everyone claim our own tasks. An efficient application software, teambition, came into use in order to view tasks conveniently.

2014 3 23

The Training Session of Experiment Skills

Xin Guo, a member of 2013 XMU iGEM team, trained us in fundamental experiment principles and skills.

2014 3 23

The 1st Training Session of Art Designing

Yumin Hong, a member of 2013 XMU iGEM team, trained us in art designing and color matching skills.

2014 3 23

The 2nd Regular Meeting

2014 3 25

The 3rd Regular Meeting

2014 3 29

The 2nd Training Session of Art Designing

Fan Wu, a member of 2013 XMU iGEM team and one of the leaders of this year’s team, trained us in primary skills of Photoshop.

2014 3 30

The 1st Training Session of Presentation 

Jianxing Huang, a member of 2013 XMU iGEM team and one of the leaders of this year’s team, trained us in presentation skills, such as standing posture, eye contact, body language,etc.

2014 3 30

The 4th Regular Meeting

2014 4 26

The 2nd Training Session of Presentation

Jianxing Huang, organized a discuss about Louis Cha’s novels. We practiced to make a short speech of our viewpoints.

2014 4 26

A Training Session of Web Designing 

2014 4 27

A video chat with SJTU

We engaged with the iGEM group in Shanghai Jiao Tong University through video chat. We exchanged the progress of the work, and put forward a design of a video in which the development of iGEM in China would be shown.

2014 4 27

The 5th Regular Meeting

2014 5 1-6 1

The Earlier Discussion

We discuss about ideas regularly. Some of members attended several research groups in School of life science, XMU in order to hunt for inspirations.

2014 5 3

The 3rd Training Session of Presentation

Jianxing Huang, share some English speech skills and American culture. And we tried to write a text of a speech in English.

2014 5 4

The 6th Regular Meeting

2014 5 18

The 7th Regular Meeting

2014 5 31

A video chat with TJU

We communicated with the iGEM group in Tientsin University by video chat, during which we shared our progress and experience, and introduced our ideas with each other.

2014 6 1 

Regular Meeting

2014 6 1

Finalization of the Idea

After a host of discussions, a mass of literature reading and consultations with teachers, we decided to engaged in bacterial chemotaxis.

2014 6 4

A video conference with NCTU

We enjoy a video conference with National Chiao Tung University. We found we two are quite different in selection methods of team members, the manner of working, and the way of thinking, from which we were illuminated a great deal. And their enthusiasm really inspired us a lot.

2014 6 6

A video chat with Tokyo Tech

We engaged with the iGEM group in Tokyo Institute of Technology through video chat. We shared with each other our construction of teams and ideas, as well as our human practice plans.

2014 6 20

Setting up a practice team

A practice team containing all the 2014 XMU iGEM members were formed. Human Practice group planned to hold a science popularization in Xiamen Library. We were going to popularize food safety, transgenosis technology, synthetic biology, and iGEM. The activities department’s director of the library was glad to co-organize the activity with us. Yuncaihong, an early childhood institution agreed with the sponsorship.

2014 7 2

Our practice team ranked as key team of XMU summer social practice.

2014 7 15

Accomplish he Design of Genetic Loops

2014 7 16

An Experiment Proposition

Chun Tang, one of the leaders of the team, put forward a plan of experiment. He divided the members into 4 groups, each one had 1~2 members who took charge of single group’s experiment. And we got familiar with the experimental procedure gradually, and mastered the steps soon.

2014 7 17

Began to do experiment

2014 7 20 

Received the strain MG1655 from Hong Kong University

2014 7 22

Received the E. coli strain MG1655 from Prof. Sourjik of Universitaet Heidelberg

2014 7 25

A Visit to ZJU

Jielin Chen paid a visit to the iGEM team in Zhejiang University. 

2014 7 28

A Visit to the Lab in TJU

Yang Liu, one of the members visited the iGEM team in Tientsin University and shared our progress and experience with them. 

2014 7 28

The Publishment of Newsletter No.1 

Newsletter is cofounded by iGEMers of Paris Bettencourt University and us, XMU team. Till then we had got 30 teams participated worldwidely, yet still more teams are needed for broader communication and more informative and colorful later issues. In general this electronic newsletter includes two major parts: project update and the introduction of team members. We sincerely hope that through this platform, every team will have a better access to share information and progress, gain feedbacks and favors on their own projects from their peers and even get to know some young promising synthetic biologists. In addition, there are also going to be special issues publishing with interviews of iGEM alumni and advisors from part of college teams in competition.

2014 7 31

Received the E. coli strains RP437 and RP1616 from Prof. Parkinson of Biology University of Utah.

2014 8 15 

Regular Meeting

2014 8 23

The iGEMers of ZJU paid a return visit to us.

2014 8 26

Regular Meeting

2014 8 26

Accomplishment of Genetic Loop

2014 8 27

Characterization of Chemotaxis

2014 8 29

Party

After long term of hard work, we decided to take one day off to relax. We played Live CS in the morning. Everyone was tired but still happy. An Chen had made a reservation of a vacation apartment. We bought ingredients and did the cooking all by ourselves. We enjoyed the self-cooked hot pot together. After the dinner, we played cards and had a wonderful time.

2014 9 2

The Creation of Our Mascot

2014 9 6

Regular Meeting

We summarized everyone’s work and achievements till then, and did assessments to each other and ourselves. 

2014 9 7

Bobing

On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, we played a traditional game called Bobing, a game of luck. 

2014 9 12-13

A popularization of food safety and synthetic biology in Xiamen Library. 

2014 9 15

Regular Meeting

According to the democratic assessments and discussions with our advisor, 14 members were selected to represent our team to compete in America.

2014 9 19

The visas were approved

13 teammates went to the embassy in Guangzhou to get our visas. We enjoyed our journey and were so ecstatic because all the visas were approved, which broke the record of XMU-iGEM. We took photos with the little yellow paper in our hand in excitement.

2014 9 19

Accomplishment of Interlab 

2014 10 5

The texts on wiki were finished

2014 10 7

Determination of the art design of wiki

2014 10 9

The banner was designed

2014 10 17

Accomplishment of wiki