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Team:Bielefeld-Germany/Human Practice/Day of Synthetic Biology
From 2013.igem.org
Day of Synthetic Biology
Together with the igem-Teams from Braunschweig, Bonn, Darmstadt, Frankfurt/M., Freiburg, Göttingen, Heidelberg, Marburg and Tübingen, we decided to organize a nation-wide event in order to promote synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and, of course, our individual projects.
We picked September 7th for this “SynBio Day”, when every participating team set up a booth in their respective home town. In Bielefeld, we set up a tent in front of our town hall. There, we put up posters explaining the basics of synthetic biology, as well as our microbial fuel cell project.
With the adults we discussed synthetic biology and genetic engineering. We explained our projects and informed them about the iGEM competition. Most people were quite interested and asked lots of questions. We were happy to have high attendance all day long.
To assess the general opinion about our project and synthetic biology, as well as to ascertain whether our event had an impact on the opinion of our visitors, we asked some of them to fill out a questionnaire before leaving. The Results can be found here.
