Team:Pumas Mexico/Engagement
As part of our Human practices area we give several talks and work on the outreach of Synbio to people we achieve this by radio interviews, presentations, Science fairs, and talks around the country. We try to raise awarness about the biofuels issue, how we need to look for local alternatives and for teaching younger generations
Cetiem talk.
Place:Mexico City, Mexico.
Name: Young day UNAM edition
Expositor: Benitez Trejo Itzel Paola
We were invited by CETIEM ( Student chapter for technology innovation and entrepreneurship for its initials in Spanish) to give a talk in "Young day UNAM edition" to people of engineering majors about synthetic biology and their applications in the industry.
This events helps us teach how entrepreneurship and synthetic biology are an option for young biologists and how is and interdisciplinary field.
people reached: 150
Radio formula interview.
Place:Mexico City, Mexico.
Name:Biotechnology
Expositor: Guzman Vendrell Alejandro
We were interviewed about our project in the radio program " Radio formula" for its science issue on Tuesdays; we answered some of the public questions about the differences with biotechnology and how do we plan to work in the future.
people reached: 500-1k
Campus party.
Place:Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
Name: Biohacking, Syner-G
Expositor: Joaquin Espinosa Evelio
Campus party is a technology, science, and entrepreneurship event; we delivered two talks one about biohacking and one about Syner-G to the public in the “special talks” section.
people reached: 500-700
Radio talk “Mala Cabeza”.
Place:Mexico City, Mexico.
Name: Synthetic Biology
Expositor:
Alonso Pavon Jose Antonio
Cruz Nunez Carolina Guadalupe
Guzman Vendrell Alejandro
We give a talk in the online radio show “ Mala cabeza” we talked about what is synthetic biology, its common uses and how it is being used to help people around the world’ we then focused on Synerg-G, the process we are using and how do we plan to achieve our final objective.
people reached: 200-300
Complex systems course.
Place:Mexico City, Mexico.
We give and extracurricular course on complex systems as part of our modeling training, this courses also help us understand the level of the students of our university; we teach them the basic of complex systems and also how it is intermingled with biology.
people reached: 30 students
Talk at “ Talleres de ciencia Mexico Merida”
Place:Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
Name: Syner-G
Expositor: Guzman Vendrell Alejandro
We gave an online webinar to high school students in the “ Talleres de ciencia Mexico” program at Merida Yucatan. We talked about our project, and how we can use this technology to improve the life’s of people.
people reached: 40 students
Faculty of science.
Place:Mexico City, Mexico.
Name: Introduction week of Science
Expositor:team members Pumas Synbio
We were in the introduction week of the Faculty of Science showing the “Pumas Synbio” project and inviting students to participate, we gave small science experiments and invitation to visit our lab.
people reached: 400 freshman student
American embassy.
Place:Mexico City, Mexico.
Name: Entrepenourship
Expositor:
Hernandez Mejia Ilia Xrysw
Gil Gomez Carlos Andres
We have a talk about our experience in entrepenourship in the American embassy and how syntethic biology works with it.
people reached: 200
Science and humanities fair.
Place:Mexico City, Mexico.
Expositor: Team members Pumas Synbio
We gave a presentation in the “ Feria de la Ciencia y las Humanidades” at the Universum Museum; we made small experiments like DNA extraction and models to small children and talk about the future of technology in the country.
people reached: 500
Facebook page.
Our FB page for the project currently has 1694 likes, we publish science related news as well as any event we are invited and talks.
Pumas synbio y taller de bio sintetica.
Our biggest accomplishment is making the transition from the official “ Workshop in Synthetic biology” to “Pumas Synbio”. Pumas synbio is the name of the student research group that focuses on solving problems in our country by using synthetic biology, we are now officially recognized by the university and we have expanded from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Center for Genomic Science. We have already participated in Cleantech challenge and we are working on vive conciencia y CNER project.
This group is working with the grad students of biohackademy trying to expand to public knowledge what we do and working with more official institutions.
Our total outreach was of aroun 3700 persons reached directly and posible many more by repetitions of the programs and the youtube videos of the talks.
