Overview

HokkaidoU_JAPAN is located at Hokkaido,Sapporo, the northeast part of Japan. In Japan, there are several iGEM teams, but, in Hokkaido, there is the only one iGEM team. It is us, HokkaidoU_JAPAN! Hokkaido is a prosperous agricultural island. So citizen in Hokkaido are so sensitive to gene recombination. Because of such a background, we are feeling our responsibility to harmonize people in hokkaido with gene recombination.

To achieve this mission, we did human practice.

1. Taking questionnaires from citizen in Hokkaido, including from children to adults, in order to research citizen’s knowledge and interests in synthetic biology and gene recombination.
2. Gibing presentations to show citizen in Hokkaido accurate knowledge of synthetic biology and DNA.
3. We introduced iGEM to Hokkaido citizens and highschool students.