我們的計劃; Our project

除了跟大家介紹近年來有趣、吸引的iGEM Project，我們也希望向大家介紹HKUST iGEM Team 2013 的計劃。所以，我們設計了這段短片為大家簡介我們的計劃與目標。

Apart from introducing various interesting and attractive iGEM projects from previous iGEM teams, we would like to share our project with you too. Therefore, we design this short video to explain our project and target in a simple way.

Please enjoy the show!

iGEM wiki

iGEM 比賽其中一個重點就是每個隊伍都要設計一個wiki page 去介紹他們的project。剛過去的星期五是wiki freeze，即是每隊(亞洲、拉丁美洲、北美)也要完成他們網站的大日子!

如果你對我們的project 有興趣，不妨瀏覽我們的wiki。

One of the main point of iGEM competition is that every team need to design a wiki page to introduce their project. Last Friday was wiki freeze day, that means every team from Asia, Latin America and North America needed to finish their wiki page!

If you are interested in our project, please have a look on it!

http://2013.igem.org/Team:Hong_Kong_HKUST

七彩細胞! Colourful cells!!!

All rights reserved. 2009 Cambridge iGEM Team

剛剛向大家簡介了iGEM, 現在將會向大家介紹一系列新奇有趣的iGEM projects!

2009年英國劍橋大學iGEM 隊伍設計了名為"E. Chromi" 的計劃。他們設計了一系列敏感度調節器，令到用家可以改變啟動子的敏感度。這樣, 其他科學家可以容易使啟動子去感應某個濃度, 然後作出"啟動"或"不啟動"的反應。另外，劍橋隊認為用顏色去傳遞結果是既簡單又有用的方法，所以他們研究了會產生色素的基因，然後遞交了六個會產生顏色的基因生物磚(BioBrick)。

In the previous post, we introduced iGEM competition. Now, we would like to introduce a series of innovative and interesting iGEM projects.

To start our journey, it is the "E. Chromi" project from Cambridge iGEM Team 2009. They designed a set of sensitivity tuner which allowed users to "tune" the sensitivity of promoters. Then, scientists can use it to detect distinct concentrations of an inducer using just one promoter. Afterward, the promoter can give "on" or "off" response pattern. Besides, the Cambridge team came up the idea using visible color to convey the information. Therefore, they investigated the genomes for pigment-producing operons and submitted 6 BioBricks which can produce coloured pigments.

All rights reserved. 2009 Cambridge iGEM Team

Reference:
http://2009.igem.org/Team:Cambridge

甚麼是iGEM? What is iGEM??

提到合成生物學，就不得不提我們現在參與的國際基因工程機器大賽 (iGEM)。

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.

Reference:
http://igem.org/About