From September 24 to September 28, Shen Xukang, undergraduate of Applied Bioscience, as a member of ZJU-China,participated in iGEM2015 in Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA. ZJU-China got a gold prize with the project “Termite Terminator”.
In 2015, more than 2700 attendees participated in the largest synthetic biology event to date. The Giant Jamboree celebrates the hard work and dedication shown by the 280 multidisciplinary iGEM teams from all over the world. These high school and college students worked all summer long to tackle today's toughest problems using biology and engineering. This year, 259 teams came to Boston to present their projects, meet the other members of the iGEM community, and celebrate their hard work.
ZJU-China cooperated with CAB closely. Prof. Mo Jianchu and Dr. Liang shiyou, from Institute of Insect Science, helped ZJU-China solve a lot of problems about termite habits, experiments. They also involved in the design of the termite control device.
International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM competition), is an annual large-scale international student extracurricular academic competitions, held by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aims to promote the Synthetic Biology and promote international university students to learn, exchange and cooperation in this field. Synthetic biology is an interdiscipline just rose in the beginning of the 21st century, emphasizing the "design" and "re-design" and its purpose is to design and build artificial biological systems to solve the energy, materials, health and environmental protection and other issues.
