Team:Macquarie Australia/HumanPracticeOverview

Human Practice Overview

The Macquarie University Team had a significant portion of our project and time spend on developing our Human Practice, by targeting multiple areas in the community in a variety of different methods. This page acts as a central hub for all of our aspects of Human Practice and contains a small description of the work. To learn more about our aspects in greater depth click on the headings.

Education

To educate students at a variety of levels, a 2nd year university lecture and a workshop at two different high schools for senior students was conducted.

• In the university lecture, students with prior knowledge of genetic engineering were introduced to the field of synthetic biology. The concept of the ‘BioBrick’ and the importance of the Gibson Assembly technique was highlighted.

• A question based on the lecture content was designed and integrated into the students mid-term exam .

• In the school workshops, the fundamentals of molecular biology and a basic introduction into synthetic biology were given.

• Theory was supported with hands-on activities which allowed students and iGEM mentors to communicate effectively and answer any questions asked .


Open Day

Open Day attracts a wide range of people to our university each year, and we used this day to extend the knowledge of synthetic biology and our current project to the general public

Public Conference

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Collaboration Project

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Undergraduate Conference

Team members presented our project at the Australasian Conference of Undergraduate Research to a diverse group of undergraduate students from different faculties

Synthetic Society

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Quarantine

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Safety

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