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Team:British Columbia/HP
From 2011.igem.org
The main objectives of our human practice project are described on our objectives page.
UBC iGEM 2011 Xtranormal Videos
UBC Orientation
We extracted DNA from strawberries to hand out at UBC's orientation on September 6th! Quick protocol: mash up strawberries, mix thoroughly with salt and soap water, filter through a coffee filter or cheesecloth and aliquot the liquid filtrate into microcentrifuge tubes. Add ethanol on top of the water layer, rotate gently and see the DNA precipitate out into the ethanol layer (the shimmery bubbly stuff). I think I see a double helix!
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At orientation, we gave strawberry DNA extraction demos and asked students what they thought synthetic biology meant! (Photographed by Alina)
Outreach at Science World
The UBC iGEM 2011 team will be collaborating with Science World and Future Leaders in Science to deliver a synthetic biology workshop to high school students and foster the creation of a high school British Columbia iGEM team!
Our workshop outline can be found at the wiki for iGEM outreach. We are also hoping to start an iGEM dictionary for synthetic biology and iGEM specific terms.
