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INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL STUDENT CONFERENCE

At 2011, we as Fatih Turkey (Medical School Wetlab Team) start to iGEM by performing presentation about Syntehtic Biology on world and at Turkey for Human Practice. We have performed Second International Medical Student Conference at Ankara. In the Conference, Synthetic Biology and iGEM competition related presentation was performed to inform medical school students coming from different medical schools at Turkey and also from out of Turkey ie. Japan.
Burak Yilmaz, CEO of Sentegen, as our sponsor has started his talk from discovery of DNA to Synthetic Biology, from this concept to International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) and from iGEM  to iGEM teams at Turkey.
Medical Students coming to our conference have been informed about Synthetic Biology Concept which consists of the design and construction of new biological parts, devices and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes such as genetically engineered medical projects like Fast Wound Healing Project performed by METU-Gene Team at iGEM 2009. 
Especially, the students were excited when we mentioned the synthetic biology projects like engineered bacteria having the ability to find and kill tumor cells. In addition, we gave also examples from the paper 'The impact of synthetic biology on drug  discovery' conducted by Martin Fussenegger and Wilfried Weber. From the paper, synthetic biology phenonmenon was mentioned in the conference in order to be used in medical schools to enable disease mechanisms and target identification to be alucidated and also provide avenues to discover small chemotherapeutic molecules or design novel biopharmaceuticals.
Next, we began to talk about the widest synthetic biology competition -iGEM-. We said to our friends from different medical schools that gene parts named as Biobricks distributed to all iGEM teams in plates are used to perform functional and useful projects in an organism by the teams, especially in E.coli, during an enjoyable summer lab working. Different biobricks, their certain functions and how they are assembled were told in the talk.   
Finally, we introduced five iGEM teams from Turkey, 2 of them are software teams while remaining are wetlab teams. We said that we will participate in the semi-final at Holland as Europe as Fatih Turkey, METU Ankara, Bilkent UNAM as wetlab teams and METU Turkey Softlab and METU BIN Ankara as software teams.