Meetups/August NCTUFormosa

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2014 International iGEM Conference at NCTU

Team NCTU Formosa is planning a Chinese and Taiwanese team meet up from August 3 to August 7 at NCTU! It will be a warm-up before the Giant Jamboree, and teams will be able to meet each other, and swap ideas. Teams will be introducing their projects to each other with the goal of improving their projects. In addition to project presentations, there will be social events such as talent show or music concert, and they may even journey to Taipei at the end. The participants at last year's event had a great time, and NCTU Formosa is looking forward to hosting another great meet up.

Introduction

Purpose: This conference aims to deepen the connections between iGEM teams and to provide a collaboration platform for iGEMers to explore the frontiers of synthetic biology.

Date: 2014/08/03 ~ 2014/08/07

Location: National Chiao Tung University, HsinChu, Taiwan

Organizer: NCTU_formosa iGEM Team, Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Co-Organizer: Ministry of Education, Food Industry Research and Development Institute

Participating Teams

  • BIT-China
  • Fudan
  • HUST-China
  • HZAU-China
  • Nanjing-China
  • NCTU_Formosa
  • NEAU-Harbin
  • NJAU_China
  • NYMU-Taipei
  • SJTU-BioX-Shanghai
  • SJTU-Software
  • SUSTC-Shenzhen
  • SYSU-China
  • SYSU-Software
  • TCU_Taiwan
  • Tianjin
  • Tsinghua
  • USTC-China
  • XMU-China
  • ZJU-China

Agenda

Transportation

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to NCTU via High Speed Rail:

Airport → High Speed Rail (HSR) Shuttle Bus → HSR Taoyuan Station → HSR Hsinchu Station → HSR Free Shuttle Bus ( Exit 4 ) → Stop of NCTU → Walk along Da-xue Road for approximately 10 minutes → arrive at NCTU.

Taipei Main Station to NCTU via railway:

Taipei Main Station→ Hsinchu Train Station → Taxi or City bus:No. 1 city bus ( interval:10 to 15 minutes ) or No. 2 city bus ( interval:approximately an hour, for more information please visit Timetable ) → arrive at NCTU.

Taipei Main Station to NCTU via bus:

You can take any bus bound for Hsinchu at Taipei Bus Station. Just a friendly reminder, right after the bus leaves the freeway and gets off at the first stop, you will see a gas station across the street. Please walk along Da-Xue Road next to the station for 10 minutes to NCTU.

Registration

Primary Contact:

TAI, CHUN-SAN (Taiwan) / Mobile: +886 921 958 696 / E-mail: chungsan0017019@gmail.com

WANG, HAO-HSIEN (China) / Mobile: +86 15868829523 / E-mail: wanghs2308@gmail.com

Registration Fees:

NTD 4800 or RMB 1000 / per delegate (including fees for food, housing and insurance)

NTD 4000 / per delegate (without housing)