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Team:KU Leuven/Human Outreach/Education
From 2013.igem.org
Secret garden
Congratulations! You've found our secret garden! Follow the instructions below and win a great prize at the World jamboree!
- A video shows that two of our team members are having great fun at our favourite company. Do you know the name of the second member that appears in the video?
- For one of our models we had to do very extensive computations. To prevent our own computers from overheating and to keep the temperature in our iGEM room at a normal level, we used a supercomputer. Which centre maintains this supercomputer? (Dutch abbreviation)
- We organised a symposium with a debate, some seminars and 2 iGEM project presentations. An iGEM team came all the way from the Netherlands to present their project. What is the name of their city?
Now put all of these in this URL:https://2013.igem.org/Team:KU_Leuven/(firstname)(abbreviation)(city), (loose the brackets and put everything in lowercase) and follow the very last instruction to get your special jamboree prize!
Education
EDUCATION
Our goal was to get students in high school interested in science, synthetic biology and to tell them more about our project and the applications of synthetic biology. We went to and are going to several high schools in Flanders. 17th of September: Sint-Dimpnacollege, GEEL 23th of September: Sint-Lodewijkscollege, BRUGGE 15th of October: Campus Sint-Aloysois, ZEPPEREN 17th of October: Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege, DIEST Mid of October: Sint-Ritacollege, KONTICH
Presentation
Our workshop consists of a presentation, some exercises and an experiment at the end. We gave a presentation and a text for the students. You can find the presentation (in Dutch and English) and our text (in Dutch). First of all, we give a short introduction about DNA and biochemistry. In general the students have already had an introduction to DNA in class, but it was still very new to them. Then, we talk about bacteria and which bacteria we use in the lab. We made a 3D-bacterial model. This model gives the students an idea what a bacterium looks like. The model was printed by Fablab and consists of 3 layers. Inside, there’s a representation of cytoplasm, plasmid and bacterial genome. Afterwards, we explain what synthetic biology and its applications are. We give the example of modified yeast that can produce artemisinin to treat malaria. After the introduction, we continue explaining our iGEM-project 2013. We explain the mechanisms and properties of our bacteria. We end the presentation with the ethical and social implications of synthetic biology in general and our project.
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