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  <p align="justify">To make sure that we have a product that is worth to be launched we asked Biobest & pcfruit why they were so interested in our product. We also asked farmers whether they would use our BanAphids and the results were definitely positive!</p>
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  <p align="justify">We included a philosophy student in our team to help us think about ethics. He performed interviews with the student members and advisors that ended up in a descriptive evaluation. This is as far as we know a unicum in the iGEM competition. He also explained why iGEM should inform the general public using the ideas of philosopher Hannah Arendt and talks about the responsability of the synthetic biologist using the ideas of philosopher Hans Jonas. This is not only a first time in the iGEM competition, but has also never been done in literature!<br/>
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  <p align="justify">We included a philosophy student in our team to help us think about ethics. He performed interviews with the student members and advisors that ended up in a descriptive evaluation. This is a first-timer in the iGEM competition. He also explained why iGEM should inform the general public using the ideas of philosopher Hannah Arendt and talks about the responsability of the synthetic biologist using the ideas of philosopher Hans Jonas. <b>This is not only a first time in the iGEM competition, but has also never been done in literature!</b><br/>
Beside this we have done many other things concerning ethics, which can be found under human practices.
Beside this we have done many other things concerning ethics, which can be found under human practices.
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   <p align="justify"><b>We organized a symposium for the general public for which we also invited the other BeNeLux teams to present their project.</b> We hope that one day this will become a yearly tradition in the iGEM competition<br/>
   We went to schools to teach them about synthetic biology. For this we made our very own Plexiglas "biobricks" wich the students can use to work on excercises.</p>
   We went to schools to teach them about synthetic biology. For this we made our very own Plexiglas "biobricks" wich the students can use to work on excercises.</p>
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Revision as of 18:06, 4 October 2013

iGem

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!

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Welcome to our data page! Here we will summarize neatly everything we achieved this summer. Of course, if you want a more extensive explanation you should check out the corresponding wiki page.

The glucose model

The oscillator model

Ecology

The end user

To make sure that we have a product that is worth to be launched we asked Biobest & pcfruit why they were so interested in our product. We also asked farmers whether they would use our BanAphids and the results were definitely positive!

Ethics

We included a philosophy student in our team to help us think about ethics. He performed interviews with the student members and advisors that ended up in a descriptive evaluation. This is a first-timer in the iGEM competition. He also explained why iGEM should inform the general public using the ideas of philosopher Hannah Arendt and talks about the responsability of the synthetic biologist using the ideas of philosopher Hans Jonas. This is not only a first time in the iGEM competition, but has also never been done in literature!
Beside this we have done many other things concerning ethics, which can be found under human practices.

Outreach

We organized a symposium for the general public for which we also invited the other BeNeLux teams to present their project. We hope that one day this will become a yearly tradition in the iGEM competition
We went to schools to teach them about synthetic biology. For this we made our very own Plexiglas "biobricks" wich the students can use to work on excercises.