Team:UNICAMP-EMSE Brazil/Human Practices/CAEB

Human Practices 2: CAEB presentation

Biennially, Unicamp´s biology students organize a conference called CAEB ("Congresso Aberto aos Estudantes de Biologia"), which gathers biology students from all over Brazil. This year about 1,000 undergraduate students participated in the conference, which happened from July 25^th to July 29^th, 2011 at UNICAMP, Campinas-São Paulo, Brazil.

We decided to use this opportunity to make a lecture to divulge our IGEM team´s project to the students, and share what we´ve been learning about synthetic biology with them. Most of them had never heard about synthetic biology or iGEM before. It was a really good experience to us, since the students enjoyed our presentation. We hope some of them subscribe an iGEM team to next year´s jamboree in order to make Brazilian´s participation higher in the competition.

We used questionaries to collect information about the public audience and to determine their degree of familiarity with Genetic Engineering and Synthetic Biology. Additionally, we aimed to receive a feedback about the idea of our project and future perspectives.

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