In cooperation with the iGEM teams of Germany also the team of Bonn organized a day of action for synthetic biology.
At the 7th of September ten of our members met in Bonn downtown to inform the interested civilians of our city about the international genetically engineered machine competition as well as synthetic biology in general and particularly about our project of light inducible degradation of proteins.
Therefore we prepared an information booth near the market place, distributed informative leaflets and visualized our ideas in terms of several posters.

At 9 o'clock in the morning we started in front of the LIMES-Institute to arrange the installation of the stand. By car all the needed equipment was transferred to the city center and there assembled under the eyes of the curious townspeople. Two hours later everything was settled and the official part of the day could begin: From 11 until 3 o'clock intrigued city dweller in every range of age stopped by to examine our exhibition walls and to ask questions, which we answered with pleasure.In the end we were surprised about the brisk participation and the lively discussions that aroused so that we bundled up and left satisfied.
All in all we consider the action as a great success as we were able to reduce prejudices and elucidate people about advantages of synthetic biology.

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