Team:CSMU NCHU Taiwan/Attributions


Inter Lab

Attribution

We would like to thank all those who have helped us along the iGEM journey

Members
Ting-Yu Lin: Wet lab, fundraising
Che-Hsing Li: Wet lab, and finances
Yu-Chieh Yang: Human Practices, fundraising, and presentation
Shao-Chi Lo: Wet lab, Human Practices, collaboration
I-Ning Hsu: Wet lab, human practices, and Wiki content
Wei-Yang Lee: Wet lab, modeling, and presentation
Chi-Ya Yang: Human Practice, Wet lab, wiki edit, and presentation
Hsiang-Hua Chang: Human practice, presentation and dry lab
Wei-Hao Huang: Wet lab, fundraising
Ya-Yi Chuang: Android application, and iOT kit
Wei-Che Sun: Kit design, Human Practice, photographer
Yung-Yu Liao: Wet lab, and design (including poster, wiki page, facebook page material etc.)
Ho-Lo Huang: Wet lab and fundraising
Instructors
Dr. Yu-Fan Liu:
Professor with a PhD in Biochemistry in Chung Shan Medical University. Special thanks to Dr. Yu-Fan Liu for the long hours he spent supervising us and helping us throughout the project. He also helped us simulate the folding of the protein from their sequence and taught us about the technique of homology modeling.

Dr. Rong-Tzong Tsai:
Professor with a PhD in Biotechnology in Chung Shan Medical University, supervised us in the wet lab and guided us along the iGEM journey, especially on the expression of protein expression and purification. He also allowed us to run experiments in his lab.

Dr. Ming-Che Tsai:
Dean of CSMU, put us in contact with many of our sponsors.

Dr. Chih-Yu Wen:
Professor with a PhD in Electrical Engineering of National Chung Hsing University advised us on the design of Android application and the technical problem in kits. He also helped us on fundraising.

Dr. Feng-Yih Yu:
Professor with a PhD in Biomedical Sciences in Chung Shan Medical University, provided technique and knowledge about monoclonal antibody and scFv design.
Technical Support
Dr. Yi-Hsien Hsieh:
Professor with a PhD in Biochemistry in Chung Shan Medical University, advised on our topic and recommended other advisers to help us.

Dr. Jiunn-Liang Ko:
Professor with a PhD in Biochemistry in Chung Shan Medical University, helped us find the right topic and advised on our experimental research. He also allowed us to do experiments in his laboratory.

Dr. Matthew Taylor:
Research scientist in CSIRO, provided us with cofactor F420, MSMEG5998 in recombinant plasmid. He also gave us insightful advice on how to use the enzyme. He supported us throughout the journey.

Dr. David Westenberg:
Professor with a PhD in Microbiology in Missouri University of Science and Technology, provided us with the protocol of the F420 purification.

Dr. Pei-Hong Chen:
Teacher with a PhD in Microbiology in Ming-Dao High School, assisted us to construct a new plasmid and providing experiment protocols.

Dr. Chuan-Mei Yeh:
Professor with a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in National Chung Hsing University, invited us to the forum about fermentation industry, and gave us several advices about utilizing Lactobacillus as a gene host

Dr. Ling-Yun Chen:
Professor with a PhD in Biochemistry in Chung Shan Medical University, kindly provided us with feedback on how to improve our project and workplaces where we can work 24 hour/7day.

Ms. Ya-Wen Chen:
the Ph.D. student in Department of Chemical Biology, Chung Shan Medical University advised on the experimental procedure and the suggestion on lab safety.

R&D team of Taiwan Advance Bio-Pharmaceutical Inc. advised on the test strip and the commercial way of producing antibodies.

R&D team of Sinphar Pharmaceutical Inc. advised on the design of our antidote and things that we have to keep in mind if we want to launch our product to public.

Ms. Wei-Fan Chang:
Student major in Materials Science and Engineering in National Taiwan University, coded our wiki page.

Dr. Yong-Yu Yen:
PhD in Nutrition of Chung Shan Medical University, allowed and assisted us to facilitate the studio in the campus while producing team videos.

Mr. Shi-Wei Wu:
the Ph.D. student in Department of Biomedical Sciences in Chung Shan Medical University, advised on the design of fusion protein in Biobricks, assisted us on producing antibodies, and taught us about the knowledge of hybridoma.

Ms. Ting-Xuan Wu:
the postdoctoral scholar in Department of Biomedical Sciences in Chung Shan Medical University, advised on the design of fusion protein in Biobricks, assisted us on producing antibodies, and taught us about the knowledge of hybridoma.
Special thanks
Mr. Hsueh-Chien Lin:
Secretary of the school of Medicine in Chung Shan Medical University, put us in contact with many of our sponsors.

Dr. Chuan-Hsiung Chang:
Associate Professor with a Ph.D. in Molecular biology in National Yang-Ming University and instructor of NYMU-Taipei, advised us gave suggestion on our project and explained competition rules for us.
Our Sponsors
Chung Shan Medical University
Lee Foundation on Adolescent Medicine and Health
Chung Cheng Agriculture Science and Social Welfare Foundation
Taiwan Advance Bio-Pharmaceutical Inc
Mr. Lin from Nantou
XING YUAN Foundation