Team:UNITN-Trento/Human Practice

Margherita: Future iGEMers grow up During the summer we had the pleasure to host for two week, Margherita, an enthusiastic student from a High School in Trento where she is going to attend her fourth year. We introduce her to the wonders of synthetic biology and she completely understood the spirit of the iGEM competition. In particular, in these two intense week that we passed together, she had the possibility to see how IGEMers life is and to approach her to the world of biology. At the beginning she was a bit shocked about the huge amount of work that we had and she was not really convinced about science also because she had an humanistic formation. However while the time passing she quickly “converted” her to synthetic biology and, after some lessons, she was able to designed and built her fist biobrick: pLac with amilCP to produce blue colony. Unfortunately we discovered too late that the amilCP part (BBa_K59009) didn't present the ribosomal binding site so the biobrick is unless for logical reasons. However this experience has enthralled very much Margherita that many week after her stage, send us a beautiful present