Innovating for a More Sustainable Future
A national competition inviting student teams to design a novel synthetic chromoprotein for potential industrial applications.
This challenge embodies the Design–Build–Test–Learn (DBTL) cycle, the core principle of synthetic biology. Biofoundries like SIAT automate the “Build” and “Test” phases, enabling anyone with a solid idea to focus on the "Design" and "Learn" phases. This competition provides hands-on experience in computational protein design, real-world protein characterization, and bio-entrepreneurship, building a community for the next generation of Thai synthetic biologists.
Design a novel chromoprotein with useful visual or functional traits for industry.
A 1-min pitch video, a DNA coding sequence (≤ 1 kb), and a final presentation.
Workshops on protein design, bioinformatics, and market relevance, with protein production by SynBio Consortium.
1 July 2025
Competition Announced
21 July - 4 August 2025
Team Registration
Opens at 10:00 AM on July 21
13 August 2025
Selected Teams Announcement
13 – 31 August 2025
Sequence Upload + Educational Workshops
31 August 2025
Submission Deadline
1 Sept – 31 Oct 2025
DNA synthesis, expression, and testing by SIAT Biofoundry
11 November 2025
SynBio Consortium Day: Showcase & Judging
Teams must submit the following during the initial registration period:
Selected teams will be announced on the homepage on August 13, 2025. Only these teams will be granted access to the login portal to submit their final project materials. The required submissions are:
The SIAT Biofoundry will perform the following steps for each team's sequence:
1 kb.pET28a plasmids and transform them into E. coli BL21(DE3).LB and M9 + 0.2% Glucose media on a 96-well plate.
See the full details of the workflow here.
A Note on Intellectual Property: Your team retains full ownership of your designed sequence. By submitting, you grant the competition organizers rights for promotional and educational use only. See the full Terms and Conditions for details.
What to expect:
Winning team(s) will receive a sponsored award by the Thai SynBio Consortium.
What if the goal of my project cannot be evaluated by the SIAT’s workflow?
That’s perfectly fine! You can consider adjusting or modifying your project to align with what’s available or treat the experimental results from SIAT’s workflow as a valuable starting point or preliminary data for the extended project you had planned.
For any questions regarding registration, please contact us at: thaisynbiogc@gmail.com
Lecturer, Naresuan University
Lecturer, Uttaradit Radjabhat University
Post-doc Researcher, MIT
Research assistant, Naresuan University
Master's Student, KAIST
Lecturer, University of Phayao
Lecturer, Chiang Mai University
Lecturer, VISTEC
Lecturer, Kasetsart University
Lecturer, Suranaree University of Technology
Lecturer, Khon Kaen University
Lecturer, Sakon Nakhon Rajabhat University
Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University
Lecturer, Mahidol University
Lecturer, KMUTT
Researcher, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Welcome to the resource hub. Here you'll find materials to help your team.
Please use the official Google Form to register your team.
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The deadline was August 4, 2025. Thank you for your interest.
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Registration will open on July 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM.
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Please use the official Google Form to submit your sequence file (.gb, .gbk) and your one-page project description (.pdf).
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