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The experts

We have been talking to researchers that are in the ageing field

Religion, Synthetic Biology and Ageing

We have been talking to religious leaders and religious members of the public to find out what they they think about our project and synthetic biology and to find an answer to whether religion actually acts as a barrier to the development of synthetic biology.

Public Engagement/General Public

We also wanted to find out what the general public think of our project and synthetic biology. We conducted surveys, went to the streets of London and many more activities in order to get a well rounded view.

Education/Outreach

As a response to our survey which showed that more then 3/4 of the sample wished that they had learnt about synthetic biology at school, we wanted to reach out to as many age groups as possible and run several different educational workshops

Law and regulation in London

We have been talking to members of parliament, UCL political societies and London assembly members to get a view of our project from a law point of view. Will our ideas be accepted into society and will people in London want this?

Public Policy

Ageing and art

Sue and Diane art group

Industry

Our iGEM blog

We also wanted the general public to know about our project and iGEM so we decided to make a blog highlighting our general experiences as we go along this iGEM journey! We are also working on posting some tips for future GEM teams, based on what we are learning as we go through the process.

The Blog link: http://ucligem2016.wix.com/ucligem2016

Our App

As mobile phones are becoming increasing part of our lives, we thought that developing an app may be a great way to get more people more aware of synthetic biology. We have decided to create a game that works by getting users to create certain biobricks, where the gene of interest will only complete the biobrick if the plasmid backbone is cut with the correct restriction enzymes. We want to make it as user friendly as possible and we are hoping to integrate our project and iGEM into the app as well.

Press release

We were able make more people aware of our project by getting our project advertised through the UCL website (Biochemical engineering News section). We are also working on getting the project advertised on the UCL newsletter (myUCL).

Also follow our vlog where we upload fun videos of the team members and vlog throughout our iGEM journey

Synthetic biology showcase: Friday 16th July

Amandeep, Michelle and Abbie presented at the Annual Synthetic Biology Showcase at UCL. This was a unique opportunity to share our project with leading synthetic biology researchers, shape our newer ideas as well as to discuss the ethics of our project.

Human Practices Hub.

Note

You must fill out this page in order to be considered for all awards for Human Practices:

Human Practices silver medal criterion
Human Practices gold medal criterion
Best Integrated Human Practices award
Best Education and Public Engagement award

Some Human Practices topic areas

Philosophy
Public Engagement / Dialogue
Education
Product Design
Scale-Up and Deployment Issues
Environmental Impact
Ethics
Safety
Security
Public Policy
Law and Regulation
Risk Assessment

What should we write about on this page?

On this page, you should write about the Human Practices topics you considered in your project, and document any special activities you did (such as visiting experts, talking to lawmakers, or doing public engagement).

Inspiration

Read what other teams have done:

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-<p> Since the age of 14 I have been regularly exposed to the beautiful and perilous aspects of growing old and taking care of the elderly. I started out by occasionally helping out in a dementia home in Hamburg with a family friend who works with therapy dogs for the elderly. Then right after graduating high school I worked in Alzheimer’s research at Roche for 9 months and through that I got to meet a lot of people very passionate about this, whilst also getting a good insight into the pharma side of things. </p>
-<p> It has been two years since my work at Roche and I’ve spent my other summers either working in an office or now on iGEM. Although our project is about ageing, I haven’t been thrown into the deep end of dementia research and care for a while. Precisely until I was back at the dementia home in Hamburg this past week, this time with the purpose of getting the opinions of the elderly about our project and their life in general. I got to speak to a few people individually and then also two groups of people, everyone with varying forms of dementia: from very light Alzheimer’s, which you wouldn't be able to tell, to the late stages, which are almost incomprehensible. Overall these experiences were enlightening, inspiring and motivating to do more research and help but simultaneously the potential realities of the future are distressing. </p>
-<p> Over the next few weeks we will be publishing the stories of the people I got to speak to and the impressions and experiences I gained from the group sessions.</p>
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