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| - | + | In 2010, we asked hundreds of students for their definition of synthetic biology and produced this word cloud based on the frequency of keywords: | |
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| - | + | In 2011, we again asked hundreds of students for their definition of synthetic biology and produced a second word cloud: | |
| - | + | <html><center><a href="http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4044241/Synthetic_Biology_UBC_iGEM_2011" | |
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| - | + | src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/4/42/Ubcigemwordcloud2011.jpg"></a></center></html> | |
| + | Looks like the same keywords keep popping up: Biology, Making, Creating, Man-Made, Synthetic, Fake, Artificial, DNA, life. | ||
| - | + | Check out this xtranormal video inspired by the answers we got from hundreds of undergraduates. | |
<html><center><p><a href="http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/12434771/what-is-synthetic-biology" target="_new" style="font-size: 14px;font-weight:bold;">What is Synthetic Biology?</a><br /> by: <a href="http://www.xtranormal.com/profile/6969363" style="" target="_new">syntheticbiology</a></p><iframe id="xtranormal_What is Synthetic Biology?" name="xtranormal_What is Synthetic Biology?" style="width:480px;height:299px;" src="http://www.xtranormal.com/xtraplayr/12434771/what-is-synthetic-biology" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" border="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto"></iframe></center></html> | <html><center><p><a href="http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/12434771/what-is-synthetic-biology" target="_new" style="font-size: 14px;font-weight:bold;">What is Synthetic Biology?</a><br /> by: <a href="http://www.xtranormal.com/profile/6969363" style="" target="_new">syntheticbiology</a></p><iframe id="xtranormal_What is Synthetic Biology?" name="xtranormal_What is Synthetic Biology?" style="width:480px;height:299px;" src="http://www.xtranormal.com/xtraplayr/12434771/what-is-synthetic-biology" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" border="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto"></iframe></center></html> | ||
| - | + | ==UBC Orientation (September 6th)== | |
| + | <html><center><iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HfuYpDp6lJg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></br></br></br> | ||
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| - | + | Imagine UBC is the University's orientation and transition program for undergraduate students. 5,000 first-year students, along with upper-year students, and the greater UBC community, are invited to The Main Event, a showcase of campus life with over 200 informative resource booths! We gave strawberry DNA extraction demos and asked students what they thought synthetic biology meant! | |
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| + | A DIY quick protocol: mash up strawberries, mix thoroughly with salt and soap water, filter through a coffee filter or cheesecloth and aliquot the liquid filtrate into microcentrifuge tubes. Carefully add ethanol on top of the water layer, rotate gently and see the DNA precipitate out into the ethanol layer (the shimmery bubbly stuff). I think I see a double helix! | ||
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UBC iGEM 2011 Xtranormal Videos
What IS synthetic biology?
In 2010, we asked hundreds of students for their definition of synthetic biology and produced this word cloud based on the frequency of keywords:
In 2011, we again asked hundreds of students for their definition of synthetic biology and produced a second word cloud:
Looks like the same keywords keep popping up: Biology, Making, Creating, Man-Made, Synthetic, Fake, Artificial, DNA, life.
Check out this xtranormal video inspired by the answers we got from hundreds of undergraduates.
UBC Orientation (September 6th)
Imagine UBC is the University's orientation and transition program for undergraduate students. 5,000 first-year students, along with upper-year students, and the greater UBC community, are invited to The Main Event, a showcase of campus life with over 200 informative resource booths! We gave strawberry DNA extraction demos and asked students what they thought synthetic biology meant!
A DIY quick protocol: mash up strawberries, mix thoroughly with salt and soap water, filter through a coffee filter or cheesecloth and aliquot the liquid filtrate into microcentrifuge tubes. Carefully add ethanol on top of the water layer, rotate gently and see the DNA precipitate out into the ethanol layer (the shimmery bubbly stuff). I think I see a double helix!
Outreach at Science World
The UBC iGEM 2011 team will be collaborating with Science World and Future Leaders in Science to deliver a synthetic biology workshop to high school students and foster the creation of a high school British Columbia iGEM team!
Our workshop outline can be found at the wiki for iGEM outreach. We are also hoping to start an iGEM dictionary for synthetic biology and iGEM specific terms.
