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Team:NCTU Formosa/human practice
From 2013.igem.org
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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Conference
In this summer, we have an important breakthrough. We held an iGEM conference from August 5th through 8th. We invited teams from Taiwan and China. The conference serves as a warm-up Asia Jamboree, so each team presented their projects and posters. During the conference, all of the iGEMers discussed the projects and the difficulties we have all met in experiments. Q&A sections helped all of us exchange opinions and understand the defects of individual projects. We also prepared a barbecue night and a welcome party, so the conference not only helped us in our project, but also share experienced promoted our friendship.
Through the conference, all the iGEMers were inspired and motivated to try new approach and combine synthetic biology into other aspects. Furthermore, we also promote synthetic biology to public through the media, and strengthen the connections between different iGEM teams. Overall, we believed that this conference is a hugely success.
Schedule of Conference
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Teams participated in this conference were NTU_Taiwan, NTU-Taida, ZJU-China, SJTU-Biox-Shanghai, NYMU-Taipei, Hong_Kong_HKU, and NCTU_Formosa.
| 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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Written record
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Process
We opened this conference to every one, so many students and teachers that are not yet involved in the iGEM community participated in our discussion and were more familiar with iGEM. Our team, NCTU_Formosa, has prepared this conference more than four months, we offered accommodation and foods to the participants just to make sure that they could fully enjoy their staying right here. As a host of this conference, we aimed to do our best to receive the participants. Therefore, we programed many details like picking up iGEMers from China, preparing foods that are famous in Taiwan and a delicious BBQ party at the last day. We are glad that it was a successful and fulfilling conference, since during the last discussion in conference, all the participants agreed to gather together again in the next year.
Review of the wonderful conference
The video of conference
Biocamp
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.
| Day | Time | Activity | Host |
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| 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.
iGEM Chinese Guiding Book
For promoting synthetic biology our team made have made a synthetic biology guiding book featuring many experimental protocols and well-illustrated graphics which could help people know the purpose of experiment much easier. This year, new iGEM members in our team learned experimental technique by this guiding books. We believe passing down knowledge and following up works meet the purpose of the iGEM community. We hope Chinese-speaking iGEM teams can also be benefited by our guiding book. Feel free to download via the link down below.
Surveys
The images below are the survey consequences about synthetic biology. We offered these questions to the participants of our iGEM conference and asked them to give us responses. With the surveys, we can roughly understand how much they set foot in synthetic biology. Furthermore, we also offered the surveys to public in order to get more information of those who are not iGEMers.
