Presentation at“Science AGORA”

Last year, we participated in “Science AGORA”, which held at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation on November 10 and 11th. “Science AGORA” is one of the largest scientific event in Japan. Every year, so many and various people participate in this event. Through this event, all participants could learn interest and importance of science and they also could talk about them each other.

At a meeting space of the museum, we displayed a poster and gave the presentation about how synthetic biology could contribute to environment. There were many people who worried about dangerous aspect of genetically modulating natural creatures. Also, some people worried that we were able to keep the security of experimental safety. We explained that most iGEMers including us and synthetic biologist consider carefully not only the security for members of their laboratory, but also the security for environment and all human beings. Also we explained we thought over how we could solve the security issues of our project. Finally, they came to understand that synthetic biology was not so dangerous and it has some useful aspects to environment and/or human beings.

We believe many people came to be interested in synthesis biology and the activity of iGEM because of our presentation. Also we believe that our presentation gave a good impression to synthetic biology on participants.