iGEM 比賽是美國麻省理工大學創辦，關於合成生物科學的大專學生比賽。它提供了平台讓高中及大專學生體驗合成生物學，每個隊伍會利用基因去設計。因為越來越多院校參賽，所以在2011年增設了區賽 (亞洲、拉丁美洲、北美和歐洲)。在2011和2012年，iGEM亞洲區賽都是在香港科技大學舉辦。而2013 的亞洲區賽就在香港中文大學舉行(2013年10月4-6日)。大家可以來支持各個隊伍。
在過往的亞洲區賽，參加者分別來自不同的國家和地區，包括：中國、日本、澳洲、台灣、新加坡、印尼、南韓、香港、印度和哈薩克。來自亞洲不同地方的學生聚集在一起交流他們所設計的實驗。其中，透過演講，評判會對各組作出評價，再選出優秀的作品參加在美國麻省理工大學所舉辦的iGEM 冠軍大賽。
很多有趣的計劃在iGEM比賽中產生，例如：彩虹色的菌，香蕉味的菌， 砷探測器等。我們將在接下來的文章中簡介。
Do you know what is iGEM?
Its full name is International Genetically Engineered Machine competition or we call it iGEM.
iGEM competition is a premiere undergraduate synthetic biology competition founded in MIT. It provides platform for high school and university students to gain experience on synthetic biology. Because of the growing number of teams, regional jamborees for Asia, Latin America, North America and Europe were established.
In 2011 and 2012, the iGEM Asia Jamboree was held in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). This year, the 2013 iGEM Asia Jamboree will take place in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). In previous iGEM Asia Jamborees, there were participants from various countries and regions including China, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, Hong Kong, India and Kazakhstan. Students from all around Asia gathered to share their projects to other students and instructors. A judge panel evaluated each project and selected the outstanding projects to be shared in the iGEM Championship that took place in MIT.
There are a lot of interesting projects came up in previous iGEM competition. For example, a rainbow of pigmented bacteria, banana smelling bacteria and arsenic biosensor.
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