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Team:Macquarie Australia/Undergrad Conference
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Australasian Conference of Undergraduate Research
To further inform other university students from different areas of study of not only
synthetic biology but also our project and the methods used in the lab, Kirsten,
Daniel and Rijata presented at the Australasian Conference of Undergraduate
Research (ACUR). This was the second time the conference was held and
attracted a number of undergraduate students from different faculties
presenting their research they they had performed. It was run over two days,
the 19th and 20th September at Macquarie University with presentations from 43
speakers and 19 poster presentations.
At this conference we were allocated 15 minutes of speaking time followed by 5 minutes
of question time. During the presentation we needed to clearly define the concepts
of molecular biology from what is DNA, RNA and proteins to how they all relate
to each other. This was then linked into the process of synthetic biology and
how synthetic biology differs from genetic engineering, a concept we thought
a majority of people might only have a basic concept of. We then introduced our
project, methodology and results using basic terminology as not to overwhelm
non-science audience members. Great interest was shown in our project and we were
short-listed for the best presentation, subsequently we won the Best Presentation in Plant
Science or Molecular Biology.
