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Team:SCUT-China/Policy&Practices/Overview
From 2014.igem.org
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.
Life Science Community
During the process of promoting our projects and synthetic biology, we realized that those people working on biological research are the ones really affecting on development of synthetic biology. Therefore, we hope to discuss with some large biological firms about drug resistance and synthetic biology. We have visited more than 10 biological firms this year, introducing synthetic biology. Finally, we raised interest of 5 firms and got their supports on technology and lab supplies. By the way, Biosns has showed amazing support to us. Using their mail system, we deliver messages about our projects, synthetic biology exhibition and the 10th anniversary of iGEM, to their 500 thousand users. The uninterrupted delivery repeated every 30 seconds until the user read the mail. So we can know from the background data that how many people really know our information.
