At the very beginning of our preparation, we encountered multiple problems in our project and the execution of our lab arrangement. Therefore, we tried to contact several iGEM teams from overseas and invited them to have online meetings with us. We hoped that we can make a breakthrough during the sessions.

KCL_UK, UCL, and Ionis_Paris were three teams that accepted our invitations. During these meetings, we proposed our project to them and ask some questions about our experiments and equipment. They gave us diverse insight into our project and let us move on to the next stage of our experiments. In the meeting with UCL, we also mentioned some potential problems with our dry lab. Their dry lab leader also provided us with several helpful references and improved our design. For more information, please see the Collaboration page.

After confirming the general construct of our project, we accepted the invitation from NCKU_Tainan and participated in the ARS 2022 synthetic biology & protein engineering online forum. It was our first time presenting our whole project to others and having them judge our project from an objective view. During this forum, we not only obtained numerous questions about our experiment design but also revisited our project from the aspect of different tracks and biological systems. Meanwhile, we were also inspired by other teams’ presentations. For more information, please see the Collaboration page.

Apart from the meetings mentioned above, we also attended the Taiwan IGEM Meet '22 held by Taiwan iGEM alumni. Throughout the meet-up, we seized an opportunity to simulate the Jamboree's scenario and screen through every detail at the very end of the project. There were eleven iGEM teams from Taiwan, and the experienced alumni came to share their experiences and give us some suggestions. Moreover, our wet and dry lab leaders also exchanged their contact information with leaders from other teams and wove a mutually beneficial communication net. In the meantime, we obtained multiple practical pieces of advice during our presentation and poster sessions. For more information, please see the Collaboration page.

The first step of our education was the online meeting with students from San Min junior high school. Since the primary goal of this lecture was to arouse students’ interest in synthetic biology while introducing the use of laboratory animals, apart from the simple overview of iGEM and our project, we also added some vivid metaphors into the content to make these concepts more accessible. During the meeting, the students asked numerous questions about the experiment and iGEM competition, such as the common difficulties encountered when implementing experiments. Meanwhile, the survey result below shows a significant rise in people interested in learning more about synthetic biology. For more information, please see the Education page.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we hosted a one-day online workshop for high school students nationally. We not only provided the high school students with a great understanding of synthetic biology, the iGEM competition, and our project, but also invited Ph.D. Ming-Shiou-Jan to introduce the monoclonal antibody. Apart from academic sharing, we prepared some scientific games to interact with participants. Last, we made a pre-test and post-test with Google form to evaluate their understanding and collect their feedback. (For more information about the questionnaire, please see the Education page.) Through the workshop, we hope to build a two-way communication between what they wondered about and the information we wanted to deliver.

Under the Disease Control and Prevention guide, we held two sharing meetings cooperating with the National Museum of Natural Science at Chung Shan Medical University. iGEM competition, hybridoma technology, monoclonal antibody application, and more are all present. We guided them into the synthetic biology world and our project through the presentation. After that, we got their feedback from the questionnaire we made. Since our audiences were already medical-related students, their feedback and opinion about our project and laboratory animal were more constructive and reliable. For more information, please see the Education page.