Team:Carnegie Mellon/Our Projects

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Synthetic Biology in Policies & Practices

Policies & Practices is the study of how your work affects the world, and how the world affects your work." -Peter Carr, Director of Judging

The Carnegie Mellon University 2014 iGEM team spent hundreds of man-hours teaching students, teachers, and community members about synthetic biology and endocrine disruptors, and researching policies, ethics and impact involved in both. We collaborated with other teams to heighten awareness of synthetic biology and promote a scientific interface between the lab and society, while working on a project that will help detect for micropollutants, such as estrogen/estradiol, in water sources at a cost-efficient rate. Our Project directly affected how we saw Policies & Practices as a way to educate others about what is synthetic biology at its core and how can it offer solutions to everyday problems.

Our Greatest Achievements

  • Created the SynBio Educational Series, kits that will be distributed through DNAZone (www.cmu.edu/cnast/outreach-dnazone/) for K-12 students in the Pittsburgh area, and beta-tested with another 350 students and teachers in other US cities and in Bolivia; guided 600 labs between the months of April and October

  • Interviewed a world expert on remediation techniques used to eliminate estrogenic compounds in water, the director of the Center for PostNatural History, and a PhD Reverend on bioethics and genetic engineering

  • Hosted our first iGEM Meetup which was attended by five teams from the Midwest and Northeast and collaborated with two teams in modeling and policies & practices

    • An Overview of Policies & Practices

    SynBio Educational Series

    Team Collaborations

    Project Talks

    Interviews with the Experts

    Ethics and Impact

    Policies

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