PetroChina Dagang Petrochemical Company

Oil production of Dagang District in Tianjin has won its name in China. By communicating with engineers from Dagang Petroleum Enginnering College, we can work on turning our products into productive force, which will draw a perfect ending to our project. It will also leave some questions for future teams to answer, encouraging them to come up with better ideas.

Communicate with Research Institute

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Because our research areas are similar, we chose this research institute as our partner. We hope that under the instruction of Fenglu, who is respected in the field of Bio-energy, our experiments can be improved, and our products can have more applications in this field.We presented the details of our project to other scientists, in order to raise awareness of the field of synthetic biology and incite constructive discussions regarding the scientific specifications of our project.

We visited PetroChina Dagang petrochemical company, getting a better understanding of oil production. During the factory study tour, we communicated with engineers in the plant and found some environmental problems in the production. Then we introduced our project of producing alkanes in the bacterium E. coli, engineers put forth their suggestions to apply this project to large-scale production in the factory. This visit broaded our eyes and gave us pactical knowledge, thus the significance of our project showed up more clearly.

60-Second Biology

Our human practice this year take the different backgrounds and needs of general public into consideration. We made full use of the Internet platform and tried our best to enlarge popularization of synthetic biology in China. To be more specific, we made videos to introduce iGEM and molecular biology which are limited in 60 seconds so that the message is efficiently sent to the audience, and draw the attention of the public. We also hope that through this activity, more and more Chinese people will take notice of the development of genetic engineering, an area that may change the future of the globe.