Team:Toulouse/Communication
From 2014.igem.org
Human practice > Communication
Summary :
"Good words are worth much, and cost little."
Press
As our project was built on a regional problem, a lot of different local newspapers were interested into it.
After the first articles, other newspapers have begun to be interested into our work. It helped us to have a better visibility.
We have listed all the articles :
- 20Minutes |
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The Television was also interested in our project : the regional channel France 3 Midi-Pyrénées came to our lab for an interview. |
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Interventions
We participated to a lot of public communications about synthetic biology and our project:
- The Agora at the University Paul-Sabatier in Toulouse (22nd April 2014). It is a monthly conference set up by the association Arboris Scientiae |
![]() Pierre and Florie during the Agora. |
![]() Florie and Fanny during the Exposcience. |
- The Journées de l’Ecole Doctorale Biologie, Santé, Biotechnologies (17th April 2014). This day was dedicated to the exhibition of PhD's results with posters. We came with a poster explaining what is the iGEM competition. |
- The Exposcience in Toulouse (5th june 2014). We were there during the whole day. We met hundreds of people and explained our project. We brought lab stuff and a poster describing the iGEM competition. |
![]() Manon and Camille during the Exposcience. |
![]() Pierre and Mathieu during the BioSynSys conference. |
- The BioSynSys conference (2nd july 2014) where we made an oral presentation in front of 150 scientists specialized in synthetic biology. |
- The Novela in Toulouse (4th and 11th october 2014) where we gave a small communication and further had a public discussion about synthetic biology and human health. |
![]() Camille and Manon during the Novela. |
Interactions with other iGEM teams
- Filling in the iGEM Virginia online survey to gauge acceptance and understanding of synthetic biology by the general public (11st July).
- Skype with iGEM Columbia (31st July) : they explained their contest "Low Budget". Finally, we did not have the time to take part of this contest.
- Skype with iGEM York (29th August) : we answered questions about women in science
Newsletters
We set up a monthly Newsletter to inform our sponsors and other people interested in our project. You can find these here (french version):
- Newsletter n°1
- Newsletter n°2
- Newsletter n°3
- Newsletter n°4
Communication tools
Here you can find all our communication tools:
- iGEM Toulouse presentation flyer (French version)
- SubtiTree presentation flyer (French version)
- iGEM Toulouse presentation poster (French version)
- iGEM Toulouse logo
- iGEM Toulouse Giant Jamboree poster (Coming soon)
- iGEM Toulouse Giant Jamboree presentation (Coming soon)