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Team:SCUT-China/Policy&Practices/Overview
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Overview
Campus Activity
Since a great number of senior students have large interest in biology, we design activities of this part with a lot of easy understood examples and knowledge to describe synthetic biology. And drug resistance is known but not familiar to them. They asked us so many questions about drug resistance, especially showing their worries about antibiotics abuse in China. We introduced our project to them in the simplest possible terms, and they understood that synthetic biology might be utilized to solve the problems of drug resistance in China. By the way, some students feel excited when learning genetic engineering in university, which was familiar to them in high school learning. They then discuss with us about whether we can create ideal lives.
Public Outreach
No matter what subjects are, only the ones popularize research results to public affect people’s lives. Therefore, we took our projects out of labs to Guangdong Science Center, which is the biggest popular science education base in Asia. The number of people visiting Guangdong Center just during the National day holiday amazingly exceeds 180 thousand. People of all ages are attracted to our exhibition, which is of novel form. A great many visitors were interested in examples we gave, and interestingly some of them even asked whether it means human can fly if we utilize synthetic biology to joint features of birds and human. Besides, they also question us about the security problems of genetically modified food. Except for answering these questions, we also meet some molecular biological specialists bringing their kids to visit. After the visit, they raised some professional questions about our projects and we discussed about the problems we had met in experimental stage, from which we benefited a lot. By the way, we invite visitors to sign on our scroll as support, and fill in our questionnaires about drug resistance for us to know their knowledge about this problem.
