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<h2><B>How we integrated Human Practices</br> into our project</B></h2>
 
<h2><B>How we integrated Human Practices</br> into our project</B></h2>
 
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The unique expertise (i.e. lawyers, designers, scientists, engineers) of our team allowed us to take our project to another level; expanding on the discussions with professionals and truly incorporating human practice elements into all aspects of our project (i.e. science, design, and application). We were successful throughout the project, incorporating various sources of feedback and complementing the scientific advances with human practice activities.  
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The multidisciplinarity of our team has enabled us to take at heart the human practice aspect of our project. Indeed, all along the project, we did our best to complement scientific advances with Human practice activities. It was very interesting to see these activities and our knowledge getting more and more extensive and deepened as the science part of the project progressed. </br></br>
It was very interesting witnessing how this iterative process evolved as we discussed with professionals, scientists, and the public about our project. Our understanding and knowledge about synthetic biology deepened as the science portion of our project progressed. Thus, we had to take several important things into consideration to address various aspects of human practice.
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This aspect helped us take our project “outside the lab” and implement it as thoroughly as possible into the “real world”. Indeed, we conducted research to find out if there was a need for a mosquito trapping and analyzing system and quickly found out that yes, our system would be a great asset in the fight against emerging arboviruses. Then, in the making of the project, we worked closely with experts in the field (EID, CIBU, Anna-Bella Falloux…) in order to make sure our project best met the needs of the population, and finally, we took into account current ethical issues to build a system that would be in compliance with ethical standards (in particular by working with synenergene).   </br></br>
To begin, we took iGEM to the schools, the streets, and to the science communities to gain insight and understanding about people’s perspectives/opinions pertaining to the use of synthetic biology. We conducted surveys, gathering information from the public and had an educational debate in the schools. From these interactions, we incorporated aspects such as hardware design, the safety features of our device, and the fears of using synthetic biology into account as we designed our device to ensure it was as safe as possible. First, we destroyed our GMO in the lab and made sure it was not in our device. Second, having designers on our team allowed us to further our discussions with several mosquito specialists and build a device that met all of the criteria to ensure not just the safety of the operators, but also the local public that could potentially come in contact with the device. Additionally, our design was well thought out to include special features that attract the mosquitoes to the device, trap the mosquitoes inside the device, and safely absorb all potentially harmful liquids.
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We hope to see mos(kit)o live long and prosper! For this purpose, all along the project we documented our research and advance in a way that would make it possible for a future team (or someone else), to benefit from our research and build upon our project, in every aspect of our work (science, design and human practice). </br></br>
Next, we learned how professionals, that presently gather similar types of information about areas infested with mosquitoes, would receive our device and how there current methods could be easier if Mos(kit)o was applied in the field. Indeed, we conducted research to find out if there was a need for a mosquito trapping and analyzing system and quickly found out that yes, our system would be a great asset in the fight against emerging arboviruses. We understood what was currently being used and we imagined how our device could expand on methods that aren’t as efficient and make our device more efficient. This was crucial information that assisted us in the development of our scenarios as we took our project “outside the lab” and as thoroughly as possible, conceptually visualized Mos(kit)o in the “real world”. We were successful in doing this and received positive feedback from two professionals on potential collaborations, where they would like to use our device in a pilot study. Additionally, we had to think outside of the box and anticipate the social and ethical issues that could arise from developing a synthetic biology project. This was another successful discussion/collaboration with the Rathenau Instituut as we developed both scenarios, integrating human practice throughout the progression of our project.
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On the day we went to a middle school to organize a simulation of our project with the students. They were really interested in our project: they really invested their efforts in the project simulation, and they came up with great ideas for the design of our hardware part. In a broader way, the public who was introduced to our project was usually quite impressed of what we had achieved in so little time, and how such a multi-disciplinary could work so well together. So hopefully, our team can have served as an inspiring example to others! </br></br>
And finally, during our project’s development, we realized that launching a business required a strong intellectual property strategy. We used the expertise of our team’s law students and presented at our Ile de France meet-up about open science and intellectual property law. From this presentation, we collected feedback, which revealed that not just our team had questions pertaining to the development of an intellectual property strategy that would be in compliance with the iGEM rules/framework, so did other teams. This was a missing piece to the puzzle that was essential for all teams to understand. Therefore, we decided to write a report evaluating the compatibility of an open science model with the pursuit of iGEM projects after the competition. It was our intent that it would be a document that would be helpful to other iGEM teams in the future. This document is available on our wiki (evidence). This topic was essential for our understanding.
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We hope to see Mos(kit)o live long and prosper! For this purpose, we documented our research in a way that would make it possible for future teams, or someone else, to benefit from our research and build upon our project! </br></br>
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       <h2>Meeting with Anna-Bella Falloux</h2>
 
       <h2>Meeting with Anna-Bella Falloux</h2>
       <p>We met <B>Anna-Bella FALLOUX</B> (entomologist, head of Arboviruses and Insect Vectors (AIV) research unit in the department of virology at Institut Pasteur) to have detailed information on mosquito ecology/habitat (types:aedes, culex) and behavior during feeding sorties(anthropophily, hematophagy).</p>
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       <p>We met <B>Anna-Bella Failloux</B> (entomologist, head of Arboviruses and Insect Vectors (AIV) research unit in the department of virology at Institut Pasteur) to have detailed information on mosquito ecology/habitat (types:aedes, culex) and behavior during feeding sorties(anthropophily, hematophagy).</p>
 
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<div class="text1"><p></a>For more information go to the sections: <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Pasteur_Paris/Collaborations">Collaborations</a>, <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Pasteur_Paris/Meet-up">Meetup</a>, <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Pasteur_Paris/Engagement">Education and public "Engagement"</a>, and <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Pasteur_Paris/Law">Law.</br></a></p></div>
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<div class="text1"><p></a>For more information go to the sections: <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Pasteur_Paris/Collaboration">Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Pasteur_Paris/Meet-up">Meetup</a>, <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Pasteur_Paris/Engagement">Education and public "Engagement"</a>, and <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Pasteur_Paris/Law">Law.</br></a></p></div>
  
  
 
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