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| - | <html>Today, two of our teammates traveled to Utrecht to be present at a meeting of <a href= | + | <html>Today, two of our teammates traveled to Utrecht to be present at a meeting of <a href="http://www.dwars.org/artikel/welcome_to_dwars_the_dutch_greenleft_youth_organisation">DWARS</a>, the youth department of the political party Groen Links ('Green Left'). The meeting was held to discuss synthetic biology. We started by giving a small presentation on synthetic biology, iGEM and the ethical side of our research. After presenting this information, we participated in a stimulating debate. Overall it was a very fruitful evening and we think that both sides came in touch with interesting new perspectives. More information on this discussion can be found <a href= "https://2011.igem.org/Team:Amsterdam/Human_Outreach/Education/Ethics#Dwars">here</a>. |
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Revision as of 18:33, 16 September 2011
13-09-2011
Media attention by Ad Valvas
One of our university papers, Ad Valvas, has interviewed us about our project. In the article, members of iGEM team Amsterdam tells the story about our 'cool' bacteria and human outreach projects. Click here to read their story.
01-09-2011
Meeting of Young Minds in Delft
To help the political youth parties with their debate, the iGEM team in Delft, in cooperation with the Rathenau institute, has organized an entire to discuss ethics and iGEM. It was a very interesting day. We'd like to thank Delft for organizing this succesful day. More information on this day can be read here
29-08-2011
Ethics discussion with Dwars
Today, two of our teammates traveled to Utrecht to be present at a meeting of DWARS, the youth department of the political party Groen Links ('Green Left'). The meeting was held to discuss synthetic biology. We started by giving a small presentation on synthetic biology, iGEM and the ethical side of our research. After presenting this information, we participated in a stimulating debate. Overall it was a very fruitful evening and we think that both sides came in touch with interesting new perspectives. More information on this discussion can be found here.
26-08-2011
First succesful assemblies!
After many weeks of trial and error, the first assemblies have succeeded! Armed with fresh construction intermediates, the race is on to make and characterize our CryoBricks!
22-08-2011
Introduction day at faculty VU
Today, the introduction days at the VU started. The freshmen were shown around campus and were introduced to several departments and committees. Our iGEM team arranged to be part of this day in order to have the opportunity to introduce our project to the freshman. Read more...
15-08-2011
Team Amsterdam among favourites
Team Amsterdam is one of the teams to watch out for during the competition, says Christian Lund, a medicine student from Denmark. He participated in last year’s iGEM competition and is now following the progress of the different teams. Read more...
10-08-2011
We now have a newssection. This way you can keep up with the interesting things that happen during our project.
