Team:Bielefeld-CeBiTec/Team/Collaborations/Postcards

POSTCARDS

Raising synthetic biology awareness on 150 cm².

Distributing knowledge

When it comes to synthetic biology the public may be prejudiced. This is most presumably caused due to misconceptions. This year's iGEM team Düsseldorf from the HHU Düsseldorf felt called upon tackling this issue and motivate the people to overcome their skepticism. Thus the idea to create and distribute educational postcards in the context of synthetic biology emerged.

Gathering the creativity of all other German iGEM teams, topics ranging from the production of insulin to gene editing were covered. We exchanged packs of about 100 postcards with some of the other teams to be able to have a broader area to spread them . This led to receiving postcards from the teams from Aachen, Darmstadt, Duesseldorf, Hannover, Goettingen and Tuebingen. Our postcard was designed after the motto 'Tolerance for Transgenes'. By that we demanded for a higher level of tolerance for GMO's which in general are negatively connoted in Germany and pointed towards their advantages.

We would like to thank team Düsseldorf for letting us join their campaign. Hopefully, many will follow their example and engage in public communication!