Principal Investigators


  • Ching-Fen Chang (張菁芬)

    • Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine, team PI since 2013. Expertise in the field of genomics and synthetic biology. Provided us valuable advice on experimental designs and gave us kind suggestions on how to troubleshoot our experiments.
  • Chuan-Hsiung Chang (張傳雄)

    • Professor at the NYCU Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology and the Institute of Biomedical Informatics. Team PI since 2007. Led brainstorming sessions and supervised our research work. Generously offers us instructions on how to optimize our construct.

 

Team Members


  • Chih-Yu Yeh (葉祉佑)

    • Team leader. Member of Wet Lab and Human Practice. Responsible for the stationary phase indicator designs and kill switch designs. Planned for education events. Director and one of the scriptwriters of the promotion video. Designed educational posts on social media.
  • Chung-Yao Wei (魏中姚)

    • Team leader. Member of Wet Lab and Human Practices. Responsible for cell division indicator designs. Planned for expert visits and education events. Assisted promotion video editing. Help with project implementations.
  • Shih-Hsun Yang (楊仕勛)

    • Wet Lab leader. Member of Wiki. Responsible for early log, mid log and late log phase indicator designs. Designed PCR primers and plasmids. Took part in troubleshooting in our wet lab projects.
  • Nanda May Win (王馨屏)

    • Human Practices leader. Responsible for native color indicators designs. Planned for education events. Assisted promotion video editing. Designed educational posts on social media.
  • Yu-Tang Chang (章祐瑭)

    • Member of Wet Lab and Human Practices. Designed PCR primers and plasmids. Took part in troubleshooting in our wet lab projects. Planned for education events. Cast of promotion video.
  • Yi-Shen Huang (黃易紳)

    • Member of Dry Lab and Device. Responsible for esp32 cam module(abandoned), 3D printing turntable with 360 degrees rotation servo motor and fitting the growth curve model and fluorescence intensity model.
  • Yu-Cheng Liu (劉禹丞)

    • Device leader. Dry Lab member. Photo director of promotion video. responsible for device-deep learning model building, training and 3D printing turnplate.
  • Chih-Ho Wang (王之荷)

    • Member of Wet Lab and Human Practices. Responsible for cell division indicator designs. Planned for expert visits and education events. One of the scriptwriters of the promotion video. Help with project implementations.
  • Yuan Hsiao (蕭遠)

    • Wiki leader. Member of Wet Lab. Responsible for early log, mid log and late log phase indicator designs. Designed the wiki layouts and styled our wiki website. Designer of our team t-shirts and team logo.
  • Chi-Wei Huang (黃啟維)

    • Dry Lab leader. Member of Device. Planned for education events. Responsible for fitting the growth curve model and building the LineBot system.
  • Yi-Chen Chang (張以臻)

    • Member of Wet Lab and Human Practices. Responsible for the stationary phase indicator designs. Planned for education events. Assisted promotion video editing.
  • Hsuan-Wei Lin (林軒緯)

    • Member of Wet Lab and Human Practices. Responsible for native color indicator designs.

 

Special Thanks


    Education

  • TAS students

    • Participated in our internship program.
  • Ms. Catherine Huang Coordinator of TAS internship

    • Helped arrange and contact during the TAS internship program.
  • Tâi-Gí Preserve language student organization, NYCU

    • Collaborated with us on the educational video in a native language
  • Our interaction with the audience gave us creative ideas on our project.

    Survey

  • Bacteriology Conference Community

    • Offered us a platform to promote our public surveys.
  • Life Science Alumni Association, NYCU

    • Offered us a platform to promote our public surveys.
  • US Biotech Cafe

    • Offered us a platform to promote our public surveys.
  • Participants of the survey

    • Helped shape our project to a better one.

    Experts

  • Dr. Rainer Nikolay, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, Germany

    • Offered us the mcrg starin.
  • Dr. Yu-Ling Shih, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academic Sinica

  • Dr. Ting-Jen Cheng, Genomics Research Center, Academic Sinica

  • Dr. Wei-Chieh Cheng, Genomics Research Center, Academic Sinica

  • Dr. Cheng-Yen Kao, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, NYCU

  • Maso, the director of “Maso Master House”

  • Thanks to them, we were able to adjust and improve our project.

    Industry Experts and Companies

  • Asia Bioscience Co.,Ltd.

  • Mr. Chung-Wen Kuo Representative of CBC Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Company GeneFerm Biotechnology Co., Ltd.

  • Provided us with the inside view of how a biotechnology company thinks of our project.

    2021 NYCU_Taipei

  • YI-Rong Chen, Yu-Chuan Lee, Cheng-Ju Lu, Yi-Shin Chen, Tsung-Sheng Chiang, Chi-Hsiang Ko

    • Helped with lab training and troubleshooting.

    Partnership & Collaboration

  • HKUST

  • Wego_Taipei

  • All the participants of the 2022 AFOB Regional Symposium

  • All the participants of the 2022 Taiwan Synbio Alliance

  • Together we came up with so many incredible ideas about our projects and synthetic biology.