Synthetic Biology Global Awareness and Acceptance Survey Map

Over 40 iGEM teams around the globe are taking part in our survey collection!
Want to participate and earn a web-badge for your wiki? Contact us at virginia.igem@gmail.com.

Thanks to the following teams who have completed the requirements for the collaborative survey web-badge! Aachen Braunschweig Calgary Caltech Cambridge JIC Copenhagen ETH Zurich Evry Groningen Hannover HZAU-China LMU-Munich NU Kazakhstan Pitt Tec de Monterrey Washington St. Louis Waterloo WHU-China

A Three-Tiered Approach: Local to Global

For the human practices portion of our project, we wanted to continue the work of previous University of Virginia teams, while also pursuing a project unique to our current group. To sum it up, we wanted to do A LOT this year. We decided to organize all of these projects into a multi-tiered system with the different tiers focusing on the local, regional and international communities. Locally, we organized a Synthetic Biology Night at the University of Virginia, which was open to students from the University as well as locals interested in science and synthetic biology. Regionally, we continued to partner with Renaissance High School in downtown Charlottesville and began a new partnership with a public school in Albemarle County. We also met with Lynn Clements, the director of projects for the Rapidan Service Authority, to tour a regional wastewater treatment plant and discuss the need and feasibility of our project’s implementation in wastewater treatment systems. Globally, we created a Synthetic Biology Awareness and Acceptance survey and asked iGEM teams to distribute it in their communities across the world.