Team:Edinburgh/Practices

Human Practices

This year's project has involved interactions with two very different communities: society at large, and the iGEM community.

Biorefineries in Society

In investigating the feasibility of improved biorefineries, we believe that it is not enough to simply show that the biology can work. The project must also be economically viable, and a practical design for a biorefinery must be created. For this, see the biorefinery page.

Secondly, the broader social implications of the project must be considered. We have made contact with and interviewed a number of different experts from various fields: environmentalism, business, academia, politics, and the Church. We hope to open a discourse related to the field of Synthetic Biology in Scotland. For this, see the interviews page.

Edinburgh and the iGEM Community

We have naturally interacted with other members of the synthetic biology community. Early on, we created our Wiki Watch page, which we hope has been of assistance to other teams looking to collaborate on similar projects. Later, we collaborated with another team debugging and assaying a BioBrick. We also helped update the Registry with information on previous years' parts. See the Collaboration page.