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Team:Biwako Nagahama/Human Practice
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Human Practice
Abstract
We carried out two activities, the first one ‘Ethics’ and second one ‘Safety, Security and Environment’ as our Human Practice’s activities. ‘Ethics’ is the introduction of synthetic biology through our team’s experiment priority. ‘Safety, Security and Environment’ are research of the environmental influences on the aquatic life of Lake Biwa when Agrobacterium gets into the water.
Ethics
The knowledge regarding synthetic biology and iGEM within the people of Japan is very low. So we want to increase the number of people with interests in synthetic biology and iGEM by introducing them to the people. By introducing synthetic biology in the national conference of Japan, we think that many problems relating to the lack of natural resources can resolved through development of synthetic biology. And, in iGEM2013, we performed two activities.
教授向け説明会
On the 15th of June 2013 team Biwako Nagahama organized an open conference for the high school teachers introducing and explaining about the iGEM. The main objective behind the program was to introduce the high school teachers about synthetic biology and spread the information to the respective schools about iGEM and its programs expecting the participation of Japanese High school participation in the High School Category & tried to find out the cause for the lack knowledge and information about the High School competition. We can expect great many things from the high school students if they could participate and experience the international competition from the high school level.
原口のスライム
Enviroment
There is Lake Biwa which is the greatest lake in Japan close by our school. The water of Lake Biwa is used in the range wide as city-water. If bacteria should leak, it may be caused by an environmental problem. So, we make sure of bacteria measure in round environment when Agrobacterium tumefaciens leak out of labo. And, in order for us to know synthetic biology more, we do not transform by operating a plasmid but the simple method by UV irradiation. Then, we thought that it was easy to deepen an understanding.
