International Summer School in “Applied Molecular Biology in Pharmaceutical, Agricultural, and Bio-Cosmetic Industries” is offered from July 15 to July 28 at the College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan) for graduate students, technicians and faculties.

Topic / Activities:

1.  Quantitative PCR and Pyrosequencing 2.  Next-Generation Sequencing 3.  High Performance Microscopy  4.  Computational Modelling in Drug Discovery 5.  Microbiology, Animal Vaccines Development 6.  Agricultural and Bio-Cosmetic Products Development 7.  Hands on Molecular Biology Experiments. 8.  Pharmaceutical Company Visit. 9.  Taiwan Culture Experience Tour.

Selected topics: 1. Prof. Chun Hei Antonio Cheung, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University 　Towards Open and Equitable Access to Essential drugs in Developing countries – Recent challenges and efforts (Topic 1) 　Towards Personalized Medicine - Developing Better Anticancer treatments (Topic 2) 2. Prof. Hsueh-Cheng Chinag, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University 　The use of Drosophila to study Human diseases 3. Prof. Shu-Ying Wang, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University 　Protein Crystallography in Structure-based Drug design 4. Prof. Oscar Guey-Chuen Perng, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University 　Translational view on Dengue and Dengue Virus 5. Prof. I-Hsiu Huang, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University 　Introduction to Bacterial Pathogenesis and Bacterial Vaccine Development 6. Prof. Yun-Wen Chen, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University 　Mouse Model as a Tool for Discovery in Metabolic Disease 7. Prof. Li-Ting Cheng, Graduate Institute of Animal Vaccine Technology, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology 　Biotechnology in Veterinary Vaccine Designs 8. Prof. Albert Linton Charles, Department of Tropical Agriculture, National Pingtung University of Sceince and Technology 　Functional Foods and Nutrigenomics 9. Prof. Hui-Min David Wang, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University 　Novel Bioengineering technology on Medicine, Biomaterials, Food, and Cosmetics 10. Prof. Hsun-Lang Fang, Graduate Institute of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences, China Medical University 　　Natural Products with Skin-Whitening Effects 11. Prof. Chao-Chun Yang, Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University 　　Obesity and Androgenetic Alopecia 12. Prof. Chi-Wu Chiang, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University 　　Imaging protein-protein interaction using BiFC and FRET 13. Prof. Chun-Hsien Chu, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University 　　Quantitative PCR-principle and application 14. Prof. Shiann-Far Kung, Deaprtment of Urban Planning, College of Planning and Design, National Cheng Kung University 　　Light and Shade in Tainan (Taiwan Culture)

Remark: 1. The course fee is waived. But all participants need to pay their own travel, housing and living expense. 2. After the completion of summer course, NCKU will provide certificate for each participant.

※　Registration has been closed　※ Note： 1. Maximum participants: 25 2. All fields are required. 3. Registration period: May 10 2019 to June 15 2019. 4. Confirmation letter and associated information will be sent after June 20 2019.