From Oct. 26th to 31st, Zhu Hongya, undergraduate of Applied Bioscience, as a member of ZJU-China, participated in iGEM2016 in Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA. ZJU-China got a silver prize with the project “Enigma”, where they built cipher machine with periodically changing codebooks.

In 2016, more than 5600 attendees participated in the largest synthetic biology event to date. The Giant Jamboree celebrates the hard work and dedication shown by more than 300 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, 299 teams came to Boston to present their projects, meet the other members of the iGEM community, and celebrate their hard work.

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.