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Human Practice

This summer, we hosted a summer camp for high school students to build their interests in synthetic biology. In addition, we held a conference for iGEMers cross-strait to learn from each other and be more prepared for the upcoming competition. With these efforts, we have passed on our enthusiasm of synthetic biology to our peers and raise their interests on the topic.

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Day	Time	Activity
One(2013/8/5)	19:00~21:30	Welcome party
Two(2013/8/6)	09:10~11:00	Opening ceremony
	11:00~11:40	Presentation of NCTU_Formosa iGEM Team and Q&A
	11:40~14:00	Lunch ( Poster Discussion )
	14:00~14:40	Presentation of Hong_Kong_HKU iGEM Team and Q&A
	14:40~15:20	Presentation of NYMU-Taipei iGEM Team and Q&A
	15:20~16:00	Break Time ( Poster Discussion )
	16:00~16:40	Presentation of SJTU-BioX-Shanghai iGEM Team and Q&A
Three(2013/8/7)	09:00~09:40	Presentation of NTU-Taida iGEM Team and Q&A
	09:40~10:20	Presentation of ZJU-China iGEM Team and Q&A
	10:20~10:40	Break Time ( Poster Discussion )
	10:40~11:20	Presentation of NTU_Taiwan iGEM Team and Q&A
	11:20~14:00	Lunch & Break
	14:00~16:00	Final Discussions and Future Expectations
	16:00~17:00	Closing Ceremony ( Take Group Photos )
	17:00~20:00	Dinner ( BBQ ) Getting to know each other !
Four(2013/8/8)	8:00~17:00	The Insightful Journey of Synthetic Biology
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Motivation

We want to develop a forum in iGEM Teams of Taiwan and China because the short distance between us. The conference likes a warm-ups of Asia Jamboree, so every team should prepare a presentation and poster. By this conference, iGEMers can discuss that what difficulties happened in experiment or designing project. After team’s presentation, Q&A time helped us understand the defect of project.

How we did

We opened this conference to everyone , so many students and teachers of NCTU can participate our discussion. Offering the dorm and food to participants , NCTU_Formosa has prepared this conference for four months. As a host of this conference , we thought we should do our best to receive participants. Therefore, we programed many details like picking iGEMers from China up , preparing food representing Taiwan and the last day’s BBQ. Hoping this conference could continue, we made some conclusion during the last discussion of conference.

What we learned

In this conference, we got a lot of knowledges of synthetic biology from other teams. Thinking and discussing projects of participants, everybody can know how to combine synthetic biology into other aspects and be inspired to try something new. When came to difficulty in starting a new project of iGEM, participants shared much experience and everybody believed it was worth joining iGEM.

The video of conference

Biocamp

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Schedule of biocamp

A summer biocamp was taking place in NCTU. In this camp, we introduced a lot of biological knowledge to students of senior high.

Schedule of biocamp
Day	Time	Activity	Host
Two (2013/7/7)	08:00-16:00	Transformation Mini-Preparation DNA electrophoresis	CHENG, WEN-HUI HELENA LEE LIN, YA-HSUAN
Three (2013/7/8)	09:00-12:00	Gram staining Result of transformation	CHENG, WEN-HUI HELENA LEE LIN, YA-HSUAN
Four (2013/7/9)	09:00-12:00	Introduction of sythetic biology and IGEM	CHEN, YI-TSAO LIN, CHIH-HANG
Five (2013/7/10)	09:00-12:00	Academia Sinica and Genomic research center visit	DR.LEE DR.CHEN DR.HSIEH DR.LIN DR.WU DR.MA
Six (2013/7/11)	09:00-12:00	Q&A Discussion Souvenir	TENG, CHEN-YU

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Day 2

In this camp, many IGEMers were the group of lesson. Therefore, they needed to prepare experiments that can introduce knowledge of molecular biology to senior high students. The lessons of this camp included Transformation, Mini-preparation and DNA electrophoresis. First, we explained the principle and the steps of experiment by Powerpoint clearly. We helped students to operate experiments and prevented them doing something wrong. Quickly, they were familiar with experimental technique by ours assistance. Everyone in these lesson learned well and was interesting to biological aspect.

Day 3

On day 3, they observed the result of last day. Then, we taught them how to analyze these result. For example, some plates grew well, but others were blank. Telling to them what happened, we let them know the correct method to do experiments.

Day 4

On the third day of the camp, we prepared a lecture about synthetic biology. First , we taught them the concept of biobrick. Then, they realized the history of this competition and what IGEMers do.

Mr. Lin and Mr. Chen were the introducers of this lecture, using easy way to let students understand basic knowledge of molecular biology and biochemistry.

In Q&A part of this lecture, students asked several questions of IGEM , and we thought we inspired their passion to IGEM. So as to let them know more, Mr. Lin introduced ours 2013 project. Although it was hard to them , they still listened it conscientiously.

Day 5

On day 5, we programmed the visit of genomics research center for students. First, the guide of center took us to see the mass spectrometer and introduced its principle. Second, we visited Protein X-ray Diffratometer laboratory. Third, the center allowed us to visit Ultra High Throughput Screening. Finally, they prepared a lecture of more about Researches in the Center. We gained a lot in this trip, thinking this national-level institution great.

Day 6

On the last day of biocamp, the group of lesson had prepared souvenirs for students participated in this camp. The souvenirs was tissue-plants implanted by ourselves. We offered a Q&A time to them and introduced this IGEM team again.

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