Team:Tunghai TAPG/Attributions
-------- Advisors --------
Dr. GU,YE-SONG(Department of Chemical Engineering, Tunghai University, Taiwan)
Dr. Gu is a professor at Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, whose has the expertise in biotechnology, polymer, biosensor, cancer study, and bioprocess development. Dr. Gu is our team PI. who taught us to write a business proposal and contacts sponsors. He arranged several events to allow our team to present our research ideas for our alumni. He guided us through the whole project and gave us the lecture of “Synthetic Biology”.
Dr. LONG,FONG-DI(Department of Chemistry, Tunghai University, Taiwan)
Dr. Lung is professor in the Department of Chemistry who helped to design an antimicrobial peptide. Dr. Lung taught us to use chemical methods (SPPS) to produce peptides efficiently.
-------- Members --------
YANG,JIA-CHANG
CHEN,RI-XIAN
Mr. Chen is a student in the Genetic Engineering Master Program. He taught experimental skills and advised us on our project.
HSU,CHUNG-HUI
Ms. Hsu is a college student from the Department of Chemical Engineering. She is a leader of the Tunghai iGem. She oversaw the whole project. She was also responsible for fund raising and did research in the wet lab group.
ZHANG,FANG-YU
Ms. Chang was in charge of the wet laboratory division. She designed the experiment to produce the peptide by the E. coli and edited our website of the wet lab section.
CHEN,KAI-TING
Ms. Chen did the research in the wet lab division and was responsible for all the communication between our iGem team and the doctoral students in other research laboratories.
YEN,CHI-FANG
Ms. Yen is a leader of the human practice division of our iGem team. She contacted with several researchers and organizations to present our research proposal. She strongly encouraged us to attend the startup competition so that our team had a chance to present our research to the public and received valuable feedbacks.
LUO,YI-WEN
Ms. Luo is a member of the public relations division. She worked with a company to make T-shirts and flags of our team.
JIANG,PEI-YI
Ms. Jiang is also in public relations team and made the questionnaire for us to better understand our research project.
WANG,CHU-YAN
Ms. Wang wrote a business proposal for our product and presented it to some companies for supports.
CHENG,WAN-ER
Ms. Cheng worked with Chu-Yan on the business proposal for our team and also translated our research document from Chinese to English.
XU,SHUO-XUAN
Mr. Hsu is a student from the Department of Biology. He conducted the sterilization test for our peptide.
JIANG,YU-JING
Ms. Jiang is also a student from the Department of Biology. She and Mr. Hsu worked together to optimize the condition to stabilize our peptide.
YANG,SHU-HAN
Ms. Yang took in charge of our team’s social media such as Facebook and Instagram. She made several videos and uploaded them onto our YouTube channel.
LIN,SHANG-ZHE
Mr. Lin is our website manager and maintained our team’s social media. Besides, he's a teammate who have so many good ideas, he helped us a lot during the brainstorming.
CHEN,RUI-YAN
Mr. Chen created the website for our team.We can't achieve this project without him.
LIN,SI-YU
Ms. Lin is a leader of our dry laboratory. She led team members to develop three different models of our product. (Model 1; Concentration-Killing Model, Model 2; Time-Killing Model, Model 3; Diffusion Model)
TSAI,CHENG-HSIAO
Mr. Tsai is a member in the dry lab group. He always has a lot of the interesting ideas. He helped the group to think out what kind of model they want to make ,he always have full of the idea.
TSAI,BING-YEN
Mr. Tsai has expertise in engineering and played an important role in the dry lab group. He is experienced in professional software such as Mathlab and Aspen. He was responsible for fitting data into a specific function or model.
-------- Acknowledgement --------
Dr. YANG,I-KUAN (College of Engineering, Tunghai University, Taiwan)
Dr. Yang is the Dean of College of Engineering. He taught us how to simulate the diffusion model. Dr. Yang helped our team to seek sponsorship. He fully supported our ideas and encouraged our team to pursue our dream.
Dr. S.M.Chiao(Department of Chemical Engineering, Tunghai University, Taiwan)
Dr. Chiao is the chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tunghai University. He hosted events for us to introduce iGem competition and our research ideas to our alumni in order to receive sponsorship.
Dr. LIN,CI-CHANG(Department of Chemical Engineering, Tunghai University, Taiwan)
Dr. Lin is an expert in biomedical field who helped us with the brainstorming during so many late night. Besides, he analyzed the pros and cons of the different topic for us, guided us to the right way.
Dr. WANG,BI-HAN(Department of Biology , Tunghai University, Taiwan)
She provided assistance with the sterilization test. We found the best condition of the antimicrobial ability.
Dr. CHEN,PEI-HONG(Ming-Duo High School)
He really helped us a lot .Since the Geographic location ,we're always asking him all the problems we faced. For example, he helped us to understand the medal criteria, also taucgh us how to add a part to the registry .
Dr. Cheng-Hsuan Hsu(CVS Health, Texas, United States )
She is a pharmacist in the US. She gave advices on the stablizabilty of the antimicrobial peptide and provided feedback on our research strategies.
Dr. Zhengrong Cui(University of Texas, Texas, United States)
Dr. Cui is a professor at in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin. He encougaged and advised us on experimental design and prioritizing tasks.
Dr. SU,CAN-LIANG (Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, United States)
Dr. Su is the president of Tunghai University Alumni Association in the United States. He communicated with our alumni in the Boston area. Thanks for their kindness. They are willing to open their homes to allow us to spend several nights during our competition in Boston.
WANG,GUO-JHAO (Tunghai University Alumni)
ZHENG,QING-HE (Tunghai University Alumni)
CAI,QING HUA (Tunghai University Alumni)
CHEN JEN LANG (Tunghai University Alumni)
They sponsored our registration. Then we can have enough money to operate our team and complete our project.
YANG,ZHI-CHIEH (Tunghai University Alumni)
ZHUO,JIAN-QING (Tunghai University Alumni)
They communicated with other alumni to accommodate us during our stay in Boston. We really appreciate their time and patience.
TONG,YI-YU (Tunghai University Alumni)
We truly appreciate that she kindly allows us stay in her home during the competition days.
ZHENG,RU-YUN
Ms. Cheng made our iGem team logo, clothes and flags.
-------- Financial Supports --------
The Alumni Association of Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, Tunghai University, Taiwan
The Organization gave us opportunity to present this international scientific competition to Chemical Engineering alumni and provided our team financial support.
Tunghai University Endowment Fund for Academic Advancement
This organization provided us with the required financial resources to realize our project. This organization supported us throughout the whole process and believing in our project idea.
North America Tunghai
In charge of all the things during we stay in the US. for example, the transportation, accommodation, food, tours.
Davinci startup
They had training our ability of presentation with some professional courses and teacher. For example, there were some anchor and celebrity leaded us to the television station and film studio for teaching us how to present before audiences.
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Tunghai University, laboratory
Helping us construct the whole experimental structure and Assisted us with peptide purification and production in genetic engineering methods.
Department of Chemistry, Tunghai University, laboratory
Helping us construct the whole experimental structure and assisted us with peptide production in chemical methods.
Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, laboratory
Helping us construct the whole experimental structure and assisted us with peptide sterilization test.
erimental structure and assisted us with peptide sterilization test.