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- | The [http://www.bsse.ethz.ch/events/open_house Open House] day of the Department of Biosciences and Engineering (D-BSSE) of | + | The [http://www.bsse.ethz.ch/events/open_house Open House] day of the Department of Biosciences and Engineering (D-BSSE) of ETH Zurich is a event where scientists show their research to the public. During the day, all the department groups present their research through poster, pictures, computer simulations, real data etc. The event is organized with a goal to familiarize people with the work that is done in the institute, the main target of people being bachelor students who are in a process of decision about their further education. The event is also a nice way for the scientist that work in a particular group of the department to get to know better what the other groups of the same department do. The Open House Day is also very useful for master students in a search for master thesis and/or PhD positions. Among the visitors, there are often children of primary school age or smaller. The department finds a nice way of presenting science to them, through games, puzzles, lego etc. |
- | We were happy to be given the chance to participate | + | During this year's D-BSSE Open House Day, one of the stands was reserved for iGEM and our SmoColi project. We were happy to be given the chance to participate and present the iGEM competition and our project to the others. We presented a Poster, showed our simulations on a computer along with some other pictures of our work and did a survey related to Synthetic Biology. We talked to many people coming from outside as well as to scientist in the D-BSSE department. |
The science done in the department was classified in three categories: Investigation, Simulation and Design/Engineering. | The science done in the department was classified in three categories: Investigation, Simulation and Design/Engineering. |
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SmoColi human outreach |
Human practice is an important part of iGEM. Synthetic Biology and the idea of a parts registry is not well-established in the general public. It is important to inform people of the potentials, but also the risks of synthetic biology. For our human practice we decided to do several things. On one side we were present with a talk and discussion round at the “CBB come together afternoon” to introduce iGEM to the new master students. On the other side we were present at the Open house day of the department of Bioscience and Engineering (D-BSSE) of the ETHZ to bring SmoColi to public. |
7.10.11 CBB Get together afternoonThe CBB Get together afternoon is an event where students, alumni and professors of the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB) Master programme at ETH come together and talk about the programme. Every year several senior students of the programm and also several alumni present their experiences and give programme-related advice for their colleagues (primarily for first year students). On this year CBB Get together, Lukas had the honor to talk about his studies and he gave a big highlight on the iGEM competition as one of his most memorable experiences. He talked shortly about synthetic biology and he also introduced our project. After the event, during the "Apero", a lot of first-year students approached us, interested in iGEM and started asking lots of questions. We simply couldn't resist taking out our laptops and presenting our beautiful SmoColi around :)
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22.10.11 D-BSSE Open house
The science done in the department was classified in three categories: Investigation, Simulation and Design/Engineering. iGEM was classified under the third category.
Poster and Discussion
Survey
1. Is your profession related to genetic engineering?
2. Does anyone in your family have anything to do with genetic engineering?
3. How would you evaluate your knowledge of Synthetic Biology on a scale from 1 to 10? (1 - no knowledge, 10 - very good knowledge)
4. How high would you evaluate the risks of Synthetic Biology on a scale from 1 to 10? (1 - no risk, 10 - high risk)
5. How much trust do you have in the scientists that do Synthetic Biology on a scale from 1 to 10? (1 - no trust at all, 10 - complete trust)
6. Do you think that a critical discussion for the “Synthetic Biology” issue is possible with the scientists?
7. Could you imagine an implementation like SmoColi in your daily life?
8. Do you think it is justifiable that students make genetically modified organisms for a competition like iGEM?
9. Is the conduction of animal experiments for a competition like iGEM justifiable?
10. Can you imagine how the genetically modified organisms could simplify your life?
In order to get a better understanding of how people feel about synthetic biology, we analyzed the data that we collected during the Open House Day. A total of 34 people filled out the survey, ranging from undergraduate and graduate students, scientists to members of the general public.
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