Team:UTP-Panama/Human Practice

The human practices team is integrated by: Valery Díaz, Arturo Nieves, José Alejandro Ng, Fotis Stringos, Miguel Cárdenas , Lucia Palma(as advisor) and other members of the iGEM team interested to help the Human Practices area.

From the earliest stages of human evolution when homo sapiens hominids apart from the others hominids, the ability to create progresively better tools and most importantly ,the capability of transfer information between individuals has led the advancement of society. Since the tribes and clans, their ability to frame and transmit knowledge as science is one of the basic human capacities that have decided many scientific discoveries and social changes through human history. Every new revolution has to embrace the critic eye of the people. Similarly, our team thinks we should treat the introduction of synthetic biology to the society of our country as a factor in the equation that helps our country to rise gradually from the third world.

In our role as iGemers , we face many issues to develop the synthetic biology in our country. Some of them were :

1. Explain and introduce what is synthetic biology at all levels of society, emphasizing the engineers.
2. Planning a synthetic biology project.
3. Be able to find all the availability of institutions and the clear regulatory frame to develop our endevour.
4. Be able to cover all the implications and possibilities that synthetic biology brings to the human civilization, both positive and negative.

Our Project

The team's goal of UTP-Panama was to introduce and disseminate the issues and implications related to synthetic biology. To meet these objectives we developed three separate projects: 1. The development of an education campaign about synthetic biology topics internal to our team, in order to achieve a campaign at the university level (engineers). 2. The development of an interactive program introducing the basics of synthetic biology. 3. The development of an interactive program that assists the user in the execution of projects related to synthetic biology. Here are the parts of our project:

I. OUTREACH

a) Nuestro primer reto fue formar a ingenieros tradicionales (no formados en life-science) en el campo de la biología sintética, en especial en las aplicaciones a la ingeniería tradicional. FOTOS b) Campaña de difusión (outreach) a nivel universitario AQUI VAN LAS FOTOS, LAS PRESENTACIONES Y LA ENCUESTA.

II. WHAT IS SB UTP 1.0?

III. WHAT IS SB UTP PROJECT 1.0?