Team:SCAU-China/Team

• Lili Yin (Lily)

  Hello, everybody. My name is Lili Yin. I’m a sophomore in College of Life Sciences. What attracts me most is human immunology and I really want to acquire more knowledge from different sources. Taking part in iGEM is a great chance for me to broaden my horizon and learn more from relevant researchers as well as to improve my scientific English. I work on the safety part at the beginning but the most dramatic part for me is the physical device of MDC. I’m not good at physics therefore there are many sleepless nights readingliterature. Anyway, the interesting part comes when I can do experiments for our team and set up the wiki. Drawing is my hobby and a way to relax myself. The process of learning about wiki design is happy and to be enjoyed. Additionally, I designed and sketched the shirts for our team. The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. Now I’m ready to come here to share great ideas with counterparts and fulfill our dream.
  
  E-mail : 907757436@qq.com

• Chao Shen

  I am a freshman of SCAU. And my program of subject is molecular biology. My contribution in our team is that I knocked out the gene called arcA in the wild type E.coli MG1655. Thanks to iGEM, I really enjoy the process of this competition. From the beginning of brainstorming to the end of the experimental results, we realized the process from scratch. In this process, through synthetic biology science, there are always new things to produce, but also a lot of problems. I enjoyed the process of having problems, when everyone can get together and discuss solutions to the problem, that is wonderful!
  
  E-mail : 610197691@qq.com

• Yufei Zhang

  My name is Zhang Yufei, a sophomore in life sciences college of SCAU. In the past few months, I have joined in the iGEM team. My contribution to the team mainly combines from two parts. The first part, during the brainstorm period, I was in MFC group first and brought up the idea of mixing up MFC with desalination. Later, after the re-grouping, I turned to the idea of logic gates and completed its project primary design. And the second part comes later when our team finish the experiment part and acquire a series of data, I will be responsible for data processing and if it is needed, biological modeling.I join in iGEM because I long for an experience in which I can participate in every step of a science project, very rare chance in university. And until now, I have found myself make progress in paper reading, idea searching and project planning which I hope I can carry on. Compared to many other team members, I am a lot worse than them in biology knowledge and lab technique, but I am fascinated and good at computer things in which I have and will try my best to help the team.
  
  E-mail : 295408927@qq.com

• Lujie Liang (Christina)

  I am Lujie Liang, a freshman of College of Life Science. Also, I am a member of the lab which is related to microbiology and immunology in our college. As a key member of the team, I am responsible for the regular meeting and the personnel management. Also, I take charge of the physical device of MDC and art design of wiki. I am one of the youngest members of the team, so there are more difficulties for me than other older members. Even so, I still try my best to solve every problem, and during this process, I acquire many knowledge of synthetic biology and my ability of reading paper and researching project are improved. By cooperated with teammates , we finished many researches, like TNT degredation by bacterium, Bio-insecticide, DNA vaccine and MDC. Though the first three projects are all failed, I really enjoy the process of researching project and the time when I stay with my teammates. Most importantly, I enjoy the competition.
  
  E-mail : LLJ19941223@hotmail.com

• Ziyan Huang (Prince)

  My name is Ziyan Huang, a grade 2 student of College of Life Science. As a key member of the team, I finished many researches with my partners, like TNT degredation by bacterium, Bio-insecticide , DVA vaccine and MDC. During this process, I have learned how to really do experiment not only learning from books and papers but from practice. Staring from PCR to finishing up by constructing a functioning vector I have came up with many problems. Until now I start to know experiments written on books are not as simple as it looks. IGEM has provided me with a chance of working with so many brilliant teammates. They have taught me a lot not just skills but also ways of solving the problems.
  
  E-mail : 470913830@qq.com

• Taidou Hu

  I am Taidou Hu, a sophomore majoring in biosciences in the College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University. At the early stage of our team, I am the group five leader, and help the early construction and organization of our team. And later, I am responsible for the human practice, the measurement of our experimental results, and the construction of Oprf protein vector. I have a wonderful summer days, working with my teammates, from whom I have learnt a lot. I am a sunny and bright boy,in my spare time, I enjoy reading as well as staring blankly into the starry sky and letting my mind wander around. I also enjoy light music, which help me to relax. I love bioscience, and I will devote my whole life to life sciences. Where there is a will, there is a way.
  
  E-mail : 1342308260@qq.com

• Qian Nie

  My name is QianNie, I am a sophomore in college of life science, south China agricultural university. In the team of iGEM,at the early stage, I am a member of the group five, I help read papers and wikis during the winter holidays, we carry out brainstorming, looking for ideas together, I have come up with some ideas for our teams, and I am also the member of MFC group. And now, I am responsible for the experiment about the oprf vector construction and for the lab arrangements. What’s more, in the later stage, I helped the TaidouHu, the man at the wheel about the Human Practice, to contact the factories and research laboratories which we should investigate and interview. During the experimental period, I am a serious players, I would seriously do a good job in each experiment, and record each result. In the life, I am a positive and objective girl, I believe that as long as you work hard, nothing can beats me. So I will make arduous efforts for my own ideal like the IGEM.
  
  E-mail : 1255288794@qq.com

• Faming Chen (Faming)

  My name is Chen Faming. I come from College of life science, South China Agricultural University. After this summer holiday, I will be the third grade students in university. At present, I am learning related experimental technique in the State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources. In our iGEM team, I participated in experiment design, I found some genes in research articles which can improve MFC’s performance. When our project need a promoter which regulate by sugar concentration to increase our bacteria’s survival rate, I guess one or more promoters of genes in carbohydrate metabolism will match this requirement, I hope we can find what we need that. What’s more, I participated in the construction of the recombinant plasmid vector. I think that the standardized plasmid vector of iGEM make our experiment easier.
  
  E-mail : 296846417@qq.com

• Yonghao Shi

  I am a sophomore student major in biological science at College of Life Science, South China Agricultural Uinversity. I enjoy the peaceful story on the book. But now, I want to write a exciting story not alone. With tremendous interest in synthetic biology, International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition attracts me and I eager to learn more about it. Fortunately, I join our team to be a member representing our school. Our team came out the idea about MDC after many times of brainstorm. I took charge the part of oprf which can enhance engineering bacteria’s ability which transport electron to cathode. With the teammates, I designed the experimental scheme how to copy the gene and how to consture vector. It is impossible to finish this part alone, thanks to my teammates and the generous helping from professor Chen. Finally, I hope our team can complete the project as our expectation.
  
  E-mail : 373289932@qq.com

• Chao Zheng

  My name is Chao Zheng who attend in South China Agricultural University and major in life science. In a period of less than two years of my college career, I joined one research group and do some experiments like cloning rice gene and tissue culture for rice transgene, and participated in iGEM as a team memberworking on experiment of nadE overexpression.
  
  E-mail : 150049957@qq.com

• Ruite Chen

  Hi, buddies. I'm a freshman from college of life sciences, SCAU. But I'm one of the two vice-captains of the SCAU-China 2014 team. I'm responsible for all the elements composing our Wiki. Further more, I take charge of backing up whole team with dealing with management, personnel, logistics, sponsors and outside communication. If you got any question about me or the team, please contact with me.
  
  E-mail : 304088813@qq.com

• Wenyi Zhang ( Winnie )

  Hello, I am Winnie, a sophomore of Biological Science from SCAU. I am very happy to be a part of our team and in charge of the physical device of our program. During the past few months, I have learned a lot about the Synthetic Biology and lab skills. What’s more, iGEM gives me an opportunity to expand my knowledge to many other areas and broaden my horizon. I really enjoy working with the other teammates and solving the problems together.
  
  E-mail : 749437756@qq.com

• Wencong Zhu (WillChoo)

  I am WillChoo, the leader of our team, a senior majoring in Biotechnology. During the competition, I always gave advices when the team faced problems. And, according to revelations by other members, I am a bit of a neat freak though. IGEM is amazing, all members here are in youth passion. Somehow, let there be will.
  
  E-mail : 422747794@qq.com

Advisors

• Letian Chen

  Professor Chen is a principle investigator of State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources. As instructor of our iGEM-SCAU team, he leads us to tackle problems and achieve our goals. Just as his motto says, “Excellence always derives from good habits and proper training”, professor Chen trains students to work with strict disciplines and independent thinking, showing his great passion on science and education.
  
  http://life.scau.edu.cn/nav-staff-30003549.asp

• Yiqun Deng

  Professor Deng is the deam of College of Life Sciences. He is also the director of Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biological Protein Function and Regulation. His research interests focus on animal protein function, structure and regulation and mechanism of DNA damage responses.
  
  http://life.scau.edu.cn/nav-staff-30003308.asp

• Jikai Wen

  Professor Wen is one of our project advisors from Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. In this project, he gave us useful advises about cell respiration of E.coli which is of great help to our experiment design.
  
  http://life.scau.edu.cn/nav-staff-30003842.asp

• Yufei Hu

  Dr Hu is a lecturer of Botanic Faculty with research interests in plant reproduction and cell division. He hosts a compulsory course of Cell Biology.
  
  http://life.scau.edu.cn/nav-staff-30003199.asp