Team:NTU Taida/HP1

Public Outreach

New generations

iGEM leads the way with this conviction: allowing for undergraduate students to work in groups on projects that have potentially applications that will benefit the lives of people everywhere.

Besides colleges, we also conduct vigorous propaganda in high school. We had held campuses for 3 high schools in Taipei for one reason: we want to inspire people.

We also met up with Taipei American School, the competitor in 2013 Igem High School. During gathering, we shared our ideas and viewpoints to each project and had great time.

Speeches

Competition

In order to make our Igem PKEK gene circuit more practical, we combined commercial competition with our PKEK project. We wanted to use the synthetic biology to produce huge amounts of medical peptides, which have high value and can make contribution to people all over the world. Therefore, we participated the China Innovation & Entrepreneurship competition. Luckily we passed the preliminary round and semi-final round contests. In the competition, we delivered the precise synthetic biology concept to the audience and the judges. Let everyone knew how synthetic biology works.

Lecture/Course

To achieve this goal, various speeches and activities are held for the communities to understand the field of synthetic biology.

Flipped Classroom

iGEM is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Students have changes to design their own biological systems and operate them in living cells. This project design and competition format is an exceptionally motivating and effective teaching method. Pro. Yen-Rong Chen, the leader of our lab, built up a brand-new education method in our school.

The course are named” Project Design and Practice of biochemistry”. Through numerous training, we have develop our capability from creativity, management practice, team building and independent thinking that we can hardly learn from general classes. Also, cooperation across business and academic was take into concerned.

Media and Publicans

-Connectome

-Taiwan Medical Students Research Communication

-Investigator

-The News Lens

Conference and Discussions

Conference

From multiple discussions and conference, we received different perspectives to our project and also, had chances to improve ourselves.

-2014 International Genetically Engineered Machine Conference, host by National Chiao-Tung University.

-China Medical University, Taiwan

Social Justice

"Social justice" is generally used to refer to a set of institutions which will enable people to lead a fulfilling life and be active contributors to their community. IGEM competition is a great way to learn skills necessary to make a startup. While undertaking our project, we were trapped in the bottleneck - capital shortage. It is a general phenomenon in Taiwan, not only to students, but to all the scholarship. People only care about the interest of result, but ignore all the effort and resource it should pay during development.

We were motivated by a simple desire: the innovations in scientific research should be valued. We grasp every opportunities to express the idea, from contributions to ambushing outside the room of international conference room, we tried to raise the attention of audience to face this problem.

There has been some changes, but still there’s a long way to go. Positive feedbacks from audience gave us confidence to keep moving on.

Special Thanks

Sponsor

Shen, Yan-Shi, Chairman of ApexBio Taiwan

Zhang, Dang-Mu, District Chief of Wugu District, New Taipei City

Wu, Bao-Tian, Chairman of LIH PAO

Wu, Hong-Tai, CEO of LIH PAO Life Science

Tang, Jian-Xiang, Director of LIH PAO Life Science

NTU

Yang, Pan-Chyr, President of National Taiwan University

Chen, Liang-Gee, Vice President of National Taiwan University

Huang, Ching-Tsan, Chairman of Biochemical Science and Technology Department, NTU

Jiang, Hong-Ren, Professor of NTU

Chen, Yan-Rong, Professor of NTU

Li, Kun-Da, Professor of NTU

Guo, Ming-Liang, The Dean of Life Science College of NTU

Chi, Shau-Chi, Professor of NTU

Kao, Yeong-Chuan, Professor of NTU

Li, Xin-Hong, postgraduate of Biochemical Science and Technology of NTU

Tseng, Kuo-Chang, postgraduate of Biochemical Science and Technology of NTU

Wen, Chieh-Ning, postgraduate of Biochemical Science and Technology of NTU

Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, NTU

Department of Chemistry, NTU

Department of Electrical Engineering, NTU

Department of Pharmacy, NTU

Department of Medicine, NTU

Department of Dentistry, NTU

Department of Life Science, NTU

Department of Agricultural Chemistry, NTU

NCTU

Chen, Wen-Liang, Professor of NCTU

High Schools

Taipei Jianguo High School

Taipei First Girls High School

Taipei Chenggong High School

Taipei American School

Media

Chen, Chih-Yu, Journalist of Udn

Ark Yeh, Columnist

Tsai, Shang-Hua, Anchor of CTS

Organization

iGEM 2013

iGEM 2012

Investigator

AIESEC

ASCC

Crosspoint

CASE

Connectome

PanSci

The News Lens