Team:Uppsala/human-practice

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    When we first set out to create this year's modelling contibution, we asked ourselves what we wanted from our project. None of us had much experience in the ways of modelling biological systems, so the first objective was to find inspiration for the project at hand. Naturally, the first place to look was the wikis of the teams that came before us. We wanted to see what other teams had accomplished, what they had brought to the table and perhaps what we thought could be improved in their modeling projects. After much searching, and more than a little contemplation, we arrived at the decision of making two different models, with two quite different goals.
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This year, when we decided on our iGEM project, one of our main focuses was that it should be well integrated with our human practice projects. Because our project involves GM food, which is a topic that raises many ethical and safety issues, we wanted to find out what the public knew and to create a broad debate on the subject. We wanted to do a project that was not only engaging for us students, but also something that could engage people in general.<br><br>
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We think we have had great succes on this matter. Our first step was to create something concrete that could illustrate our vision. To achieve this we created a concept product in the form of a yoghurt that would contain our modified bacteria. With this, we could more easily start debates and inform people about synthetic biology. <br><br>
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We have been suprised by the interest people have shown for a our project. We have been seen on television, people have followed us on facebook and we arranged a very well attended SynBioDay with over 200 participants.<br><br>
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Revision as of 20:15, 2 October 2013

Human practice

This year, when we decided on our iGEM project, one of our main focuses was that it should be well integrated with our human practice projects. Because our project involves GM food, which is a topic that raises many ethical and safety issues, we wanted to find out what the public knew and to create a broad debate on the subject. We wanted to do a project that was not only engaging for us students, but also something that could engage people in general.

We think we have had great succes on this matter. Our first step was to create something concrete that could illustrate our vision. To achieve this we created a concept product in the form of a yoghurt that would contain our modified bacteria. With this, we could more easily start debates and inform people about synthetic biology.

We have been suprised by the interest people have shown for a our project. We have been seen on television, people have followed us on facebook and we arranged a very well attended SynBioDay with over 200 participants.

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