Team:KULeuven/Workshop

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WORKSHOP

The team has organized a workshop for children aged 9-12 years old on the 17th of August in Oud-Heverlee. They have explained synthetic biology in a playful way and afterwards the children drew their own visions on synthetic biology and what they would like to create with synthetic biology. A mini-documentary is being made and will be posted on our wiki shortly. The workshop was also filmed by ROB TV and this report was recently broadcasted on their network (http://robtv.be/nieuws/oud-heverlee/tienjarigen-ontdekken-dna).

Protocol to isolate the DNA of a tomato

What do we need?

• Tomato
• Salt
• Water
• Detergent
• Ethanol (or whiskey/vodka)
• 3 bowls
• Knife (plastic for the kids)
• A whisk
• Microliter pipet and pipet tips
• Eppendorf tubes
• Filters (coffee filters)
• Funnel

How to isolate DNA?