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Team:TU Munich/human/media
From 2011.igem.org
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
In June we had an interview with Sueddeutsche Zeitung, one of most renowned newspapers in Germany. It was published in the 153th issue on the 6th of July 2011. Unfortunatly we cannot link the article here, since it is currently only available for paying subcribers.
on3-radio
http://on3.de/A reporter of which is the youth section of the bavarian broadcast (Bayrischer Rundfunk) came to our laboratory and made a short interview! They gave us the opportunity to explain our project and what fascinates us about iGEM and synthetic biology. Here you can listen to the podcast on the homepage of on3-radio
Landtag of Bavaria
We will be given the chance to talk to Bernd Sibler, the head of the comission for university, research and culture of the Landtag of Bavaria (Bayerischer Landtag). We will be able to present our project and iGEM to him. Furthermore, we will discuss the chances, which the competition provides, as well as the problems that are raised by synthetic biology. On the other hand we will be able to talk about his position in biotechnology and get to know about the position, which politics tend to take in view of this rapidly growing field of research. We are confident to make our point about the impact of iGEM on students and their understanding of reserach, as well as responsibility and hope that we will be able to increase political encouragement for this great, but expensive competition in Germany.
UniSPIEGEL
In October the UniSPIEGEL visited us. UniSPIEGEL is part of one of the most renowned magazines in Germany - DER SPIEGEL. They will be featuring iGEM and our project in an article at around the middle of November. This way, students of all different majors in Germany will get to know about iGEM. This is really exciting!
egoFM
On June 5th egoFM featured us in their programm. In the broadcast Interviejulia Alex, Susan and Nico were interviewed by Julia and anwered questions concerning iGEM, our project and synthetic biology in general.
There is a small article about the show on the webseite of egoFM and if you do understand german, you can listen to it on Soundcloud:
IntervJulia @ www.egofm.de - Genforschung (KW22 2011) by egoFM
M94.5
On August 22nd we were guests of the local radio station M94.5. In two 5 minute live takes Simon and Fabian shortly explained our project and gave some insight into their involvment in the iGEM competition.
The show was broadcasted again on August 23rd and is we uploaded both takes to Soundcloud:
Studiogespraech take1 by tumigem
Studiogespraech take2 by tumigem
biotechnology.tv
We are featured in an report on biotechnologie.de about the iGEM Team of the TU Munich and an article on biotechnologie.de about the German iGEM Teams in gerneral. Biotechnologie.de is a German website, which was initiated by the federal ministry of education and research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung). It serves the purpose of informing and educating the public about current topics in biotechnology. They produce videos, which explain principles like enzymes, ion channels and new approaches in molceular medicine in a simple way, in order to make it understandable for non-scientists. We think this is a great idea and are proud to be part of one of their shows.
