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<p>Compared to the whole project, human practice may not be the most important part. As time goes by, synthetic biotechnology gradually attract people’s attention. There are more and more people discuss about this new technology, discuss about its good and bad. However, people don’t understand well about it. Majority of people consider this new technology is dangerous, unpredictable or harmful to health. On the contrary, sometimes synthetic biotechnology is more healthy to human than normal food to human. Thus, we need to propaganda the correct concept to people, let people can accept our inventions and products.</p>
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<h5>Member Recruitment</h5>
<p>To listen to people's opinions, we also do the questionnaire to students, the new generation, to ask if they know about synthetic biotechnology and diabetes. With the help of experts, we know lots of myth about diabetes. This really help us to popularize the correct concepts of diabetes because most people are like us at that time. </p>
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<p>Besides, we don’t want to be restricted in this little island. We want to promote these concepts globally, but we know that this is very difficult to us, students. Therefore we hold a Asia-pacific conference, invite 20 teams come and work together to exchange ideas to make our projects perfect. As long as the teams around the world do locally and we, all the iGEM teams, can promote synthetic biotechnology globally.</p>
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<p>Sep. 21, 2016, was not as any ordinary day, iGEM NCKU_Tainan had successfully accomplished our first mission together, the member recruitment. At that time, our team consisted of 14 members from different faculties, such as Medical Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Engineering, Design Department etc, but we realized that it was not enough for our team. As a result, we searched for more people with hidden potential to join us after the recruitment. This formed our team which has a greater diversity of cross-disciplinary professions.</p>
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<p>It’s undeniable that there are many challenges and difficulties for member recruitment. ln particular, when it comes to the complicated genetically engineered machines competitions, students without the medical and engineering background would definitely hold back. How did we change their mindset?  How did we change the perspectives of these students? We encountered our first challenge: Are people willing to listen to us?</p>
<div style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold">The 4th iGEM Asia-Pacific Conference 2016</div>
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<h5>Meetup with Dr. Zhang Feng</h5>
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<p>The 4th iGEM Asia-Pacific Conference 2016 Taiwan is going to held grandly at National Cheng Kung University Tainan for the first time starting from 2016/08/08 to 2016/08/14 organised by iGEM NCKU Tainan. In the past few years, only universities from North part of Taiwan attended iGEM Competiton organised by MIT, Boston. This year, NCKU had formed the first team representing South Taiwan as a succes of historical breakthrough. By involving in Synthetic Biology and iGEM Competiton, we believe that we can improve multidisciplinary cooperation. Besides, to connect every schools in Taiwan also branched out tentatively into international platform.</p>
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<p>Although Sep. 28, 2016 was a terrible day in Taiwan due to the typhoon, it was a big day for our team. We met one of the most prestigious scientists in synthetic biology, Dr. Zhang Feng!!</p>
<p>We estimated more than 5 countries, approximately 20 teams from different schools will be attending this Meet-up Conferece. Proffesional scholars and entrepreneur will be invited too for academic exchange about Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology. The main programs are inclusive of presentations, poster exhibitions, team experience sharing, Round table, Tainan cultural tours etc.. We truly believed that by this Asia-Pacific Academic Exchange Conference, the teams are able to have communications, achieving better results as well as making NCKU a step closer to become one of the most popular universities in Asia Pacific and also impress the world.</p>
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<p>Dr. Zhang's breakthrough in CRISPR/Cas9 literally brings gene editing to a whole new level.</p>
<h5>Team's Project</h5>
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<p>It is our honor to meet him to know more about synthetic biology. Luckily, Dr. Zhang had also participated iGEM as a team coach in Stanford University. We, therefore, received enthusiastic feedback and advice about our project. This short conversation is the  valuable and life-changing experience which is truly encouraging us considerably.</p>
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<h5>Meetup with Diamond Biofund</h5>
<p style="width:60%;display:inline-block;">The team presentation will host by professors and representatives of our sponsor. This presentation is about topics which is going to be presented at iGEM Giant jamboree 2016. It is 20 minutes long English presentation, content includes present and future research and planning, and of course 20 minutes Q&amp;A session. </p>
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<p>We met one of our sponsors, Diamond Biofund, and showed what we had done on our project. It’s exciting to cooperate with them. With their help, confirmation and support, we can process our products much more confidently and smoothly. Because of these strong backups, we successfully achieved our goals which allow us spreading the concept of diabetes prevention through education as well as introducing our device to the market. The prevention of diabetes is important, but how? We will let you know.</p>
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<h5>Skype session with University of Sydney</h5>
<p>There'll be a 20 minutes break in between every team presentations for poster exhibitions. the purpose of this program is to enable every team to share their research works and findings.</p>
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<p>We also had Skype conversations with another iGEM team from University of Sydney, because  both our projects are regarding Diabetes. Thanks to the advanced technology, it makes the cross-border communication and sharing much easier. Within the Skype sessions, the two teams gave suggestions and feedback to each other. We also shared lots of interesting phenomena happened in the lab and gave each other support for solving the problems. Just a small message to them: “Hey guys, hope all of you are doing well. Ssee you soon during the iGEM Jamboree!”</p>
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<h5>Collaboration with Taiwan’s greatest genetic media - GeneOnline</h5>
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<p>GeneOnline had thoroughly introduced us from our urine glucose detection and safety Biobricks parts, our bacterial design, comparison with current Diabetes monitoring tools, our Human Practices to the functionality, prototype and ideas of our device and also the Asia-Pacific conference that we hosted this summer. It’s our honor to collaborate with GeneOnline! Through GeneOnline, we can proudly announced that our project aim to enhance prevention of diabetes and raise social awareness of this ever-growing issue.</p>
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HP Silver - iGEM NCKU

HP - Silver
Human Practices - Silver
Engagement
Member Recruitment

Expecting to dedicate more ideas into iGEM

Sep. 21, 2016, was not as any ordinary day, iGEM NCKU_Tainan had successfully accomplished our first mission together, the member recruitment. At that time, our team consisted of 14 members from different faculties, such as Medical Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Engineering, Design Department etc, but we realized that it was not enough for our team. As a result, we searched for more people with hidden potential to join us after the recruitment. This formed our team which has a greater diversity of cross-disciplinary professions.

A quite empty hall

It’s undeniable that there are many challenges and difficulties for member recruitment. ln particular, when it comes to the complicated genetically engineered machines competitions, students without the medical and engineering background would definitely hold back. How did we change their mindset? How did we change the perspectives of these students? We encountered our first challenge: Are people willing to listen to us?

Meetup with Dr. Zhang Feng

Although Sep. 28, 2016 was a terrible day in Taiwan due to the typhoon, it was a big day for our team. We met one of the most prestigious scientists in synthetic biology, Dr. Zhang Feng!!

Dr. Zhang's breakthrough in CRISPR/Cas9 literally brings gene editing to a whole new level.

It is our honor to meet him to know more about synthetic biology. Luckily, Dr. Zhang had also participated iGEM as a team coach in Stanford University. We, therefore, received enthusiastic feedback and advice about our project. This short conversation is the valuable and life-changing experience which is truly encouraging us considerably.

Meetup with Diamond Biofund

We met one of our sponsors, Diamond Biofund, and showed what we had done on our project. It’s exciting to cooperate with them. With their help, confirmation and support, we can process our products much more confidently and smoothly. Because of these strong backups, we successfully achieved our goals which allow us spreading the concept of diabetes prevention through education as well as introducing our device to the market. The prevention of diabetes is important, but how? We will let you know.

Skype session with University of Sydney

We also had Skype conversations with another iGEM team from University of Sydney, because both our projects are regarding Diabetes. Thanks to the advanced technology, it makes the cross-border communication and sharing much easier. Within the Skype sessions, the two teams gave suggestions and feedback to each other. We also shared lots of interesting phenomena happened in the lab and gave each other support for solving the problems. Just a small message to them: “Hey guys, hope all of you are doing well. Ssee you soon during the iGEM Jamboree!”

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Collaboration with Taiwan’s greatest genetic media - GeneOnline

GeneOnline had thoroughly introduced us from our urine glucose detection and safety Biobricks parts, our bacterial design, comparison with current Diabetes monitoring tools, our Human Practices to the functionality, prototype and ideas of our device and also the Asia-Pacific conference that we hosted this summer. It’s our honor to collaborate with GeneOnline! Through GeneOnline, we can proudly announced that our project aim to enhance prevention of diabetes and raise social awareness of this ever-growing issue.