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It is the first time for a TU Munich iGEM team that the team is preparing „School-Kits“, to make it possible for disciples to take the first steps in Synthetic  Biology. The idea is to send them a kit with all required reagents and lab-protocols, to transform bacteria, express the enzyme encoded on the transformed plasmid and to translate a substrate into a product, which divulgements banana odor. The materials, which we sent to the schools, included Banana-Odor-Plasmid, Yeast Extract, Bactotrypton, NaCl, Kanamycin, Kanamycin-Agarplates and Isoamylalkohol, which represents the substrate of the encoded Enzyme  Alcohol Acetyltransferase I. Our target audience have been secondary schools, which focus a biotechnical pathway, so all students have access to the required laboratory equipment for the experiments.  Before sending the kits to the schools, we tested them in detail with success. We appreciate other interested schools  in trying our “School kits”. Just contact us, so we can supply you with our forward-looking “School-kit”!
It is the first time for a TU Munich iGEM team that the team is preparing „School-Kits“, to make it possible for disciples to take the first steps in Synthetic  Biology. The idea is to send them a kit with all required reagents and lab-protocols, to transform bacteria, express the enzyme encoded on the transformed plasmid and to translate a substrate into a product, which divulgements banana odor. The materials, which we sent to the schools, included Banana-Odor-Plasmid, Yeast Extract, Bactotrypton, NaCl, Kanamycin, Kanamycin-Agarplates and Isoamylalkohol, which represents the substrate of the encoded Enzyme  Alcohol Acetyltransferase I. Our target audience have been secondary schools, which focus a biotechnical pathway, so all students have access to the required laboratory equipment for the experiments.  Before sending the kits to the schools, we tested them in detail with success. We appreciate other interested schools  in trying our “School kits”. Just contact us, so we can supply you with our forward-looking “School-kit”!

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Deutsches Museum Munich

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We had the chance to introduce the Physco Filter and our iGEM team to the public at the visitors lab at the German Museum of Munich. Especially green biotechnology is perceived rather negatively in Germany, but the majority of expressed concers relates to applications in agriculture and food. So we set up a discussion board where people could comment on these issues to see if projects like the Physco Filter can bring a different perspective into the public debate about biotechnology.

Survey on the public perception of biotechnology

The public perception of biotechnology in Germany is traditionally not very positive. But how much do people know about sythetic biology and are red, white and green biotechnology perceived equally postive or negative? On iGEM day Germany, we set out to inform, explain and investigate. How much impact does the pollution of water through pharmaceuticals and hormones have on people´s private life as well as globally according to public opinion? And would projects like our Physco Filter that adresses these problems increase the acceptance of sythetic biology or not? Would people want to use our filter or support its use in public sewage plants? Here is what we found out:

Auswertung Umfrage

13th Munich Science Days

http://www.muenchner-wissenschaftstage.de/2013/front_content.php

Media coverage on iGEM 2013 project

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TUM WZW News (german)

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Introducing Synthetic Biology Kits at School

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It is the first time for a TU Munich iGEM team that the team is preparing „School-Kits“, to make it possible for disciples to take the first steps in Synthetic Biology. The idea is to send them a kit with all required reagents and lab-protocols, to transform bacteria, express the enzyme encoded on the transformed plasmid and to translate a substrate into a product, which divulgements banana odor. The materials, which we sent to the schools, included Banana-Odor-Plasmid, Yeast Extract, Bactotrypton, NaCl, Kanamycin, Kanamycin-Agarplates and Isoamylalkohol, which represents the substrate of the encoded Enzyme Alcohol Acetyltransferase I. Our target audience have been secondary schools, which focus a biotechnical pathway, so all students have access to the required laboratory equipment for the experiments. Before sending the kits to the schools, we tested them in detail with success. We appreciate other interested schools in trying our “School kits”. Just contact us, so we can supply you with our forward-looking “School-kit”!

Media coverage on iGEM 2012 project after the Jamboree

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An article in the BeerAdvocate magazine #72 written by Aleszu Bajak.

"A gateway to a lot of Synthetic Biology" - The part about our last years iGEM project is from minute 14.20 on. An interesting video from the beginning to the end by the way.

References

[Edens et al., 1984]

  1. [Edens et al., 1984] Edens, L., Bom, I., Ledeboer, A. M., Maat, J., Toonen, M. Y., Visser, C., and Verrips, C. T. (1984). Synthesis and processing of the plant protein thaumatin in yeast. Cell, 37(2):629–33.


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