Team:Grenoble/HumanPractice/developing

To resolve this communication difficulty and to facilitate the understanding and collaboration between us (modelers and biologists), we have explored means to develop a tool that allows us to carry out our project.

For this purpose we prepared two educational flyers:

• Flyer "Modeling for biologists" which was realized by the biologists of our team, in order to explain to other biologist the essentials of model building.
• Flyer "Biology for modelers"" performed by the members of our team involved in computer modeling.

The goal of our flyers realization was to bring the basics of synthetic biology and modeling to modelers and biologists respectively.

Swapping the roles of the team members during the realization of the flyers allowed us to have an external point of view to our own scientific field, which allows us to develop critical perception.

Since our team spent a long period of time to overcome communication difficulties by developing the flyers, we would like to share our solution with present and future iGEM teams. Flyers could then be used by all the interdisciplinary teams during the initial phases, when the subject is going to be debated. It could also be integrated in the iGEM KIT, which may certainly facilitate its accessibility to the concerned teams.

Also, flyers could be used by Universities or even High Schools to explain the basics of synthetic biology and the complementarity between experimental and theoretical approaches in engineering.