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| − | <p class="c-font-white c-fonts-bold" style="font-size: | + | <p class="c-font-white c-fonts-bold" style="font-size: 2"> We collaborated with the Guanajuato Mexico team in developing a curriculum as an introduction to synthetic biology for first year university students. This curriculum covered the basics of biology, synthetic biology and applications. Specifically, we designed a lesson plan on the ethics of synthetic biology followed by a debate on the justification of using synthetic biology in a real case study. We were able to present this curriculum including our lesson plan to a group of first year students in Guanajuato over Skype.</p> |
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| − | <p class="c-font-white c-fonts-bold" style="font-size: | + | <p class="c-font-white c-fonts-bold" style="font-size: 2"> We contributed to the Humans of Syn Bio Project by adding stories from members of our team about how they became involved with iGEM. Through this collaboration, we were able to help create a network community among iGEMers by sharing our stories.</p> |
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| − | <p class="c-font-white c-fonts-bold" style="font-size: | + | <p class="c-font-white c-fonts-bold" style="font-size: 2"> We hosted and helped organize the Alberta iGEM (aGEM) competition in collaboration with MindFuel and GeekStarter. This competition helped to prepare the Alberta teams for the international iGEM competition by mimicking the presentation layout expected at Jamboree and meeting with well-known iGEM judges such as Megan Palmer and Todd Kuiken. It included the three collegiate teams in Alberta: Ingenuity_Lab, University of Lethbridge and us, UofC_Calgary. It also included three high school teams: The Breakers, Lethbridge High School, and UrbanTundra. Through this collaboration, we were able to help mentor the other high school teams by preparing them for the Jamboree, as many students were new to the competition. We were also able to share protocols with other teams on wet lab work we had done.</p> |
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Revision as of 16:46, 17 October 2016
Policies and Practices
For any new scientific creation, it is important to imagine how the project will impact existing political, economic, and societal frameworks. This is particularly important for projects that can have far-reaching consequences, such as ones involving cells in the therapeutic product, or products with novel applications such as space.
When designing our product, we had many questions of how we can optimize the design to best address the numerous political, manufacturing, economic, as well as end user experience aspects of our product lifecycle. In order to get answers to these questions, our human practices team did a lot of related research as well as conducted numerous interviews with professionals working in each of these fields. See all the professionals that we have spoken to in order to improve our project design on our Human Practices Silver Medal page.
We've incorporated all of the comments we've obtained from professionals into the design of our product. See how all the feedback has informed our project design on our Human Practices Gold Medal page.
See our human practices highlights on our Integrated Human Practices page.
As part of integration of human practices into our project, we've also considered the process it would take for our drug to go from the lab bench to the market. To such ends, we decided to reach out to Dr. Agnes Klein, who is currently the Director of the Centre for Evaluation of Radiopharmaceuticals and Biotherapeutics at Health Canada. Details about our conversations can be found here.
During our conversation, Dr. Klein made aware to us that there are currently no specific regulations in Canada pertaining to the development and marketization of synbio products. Having specific regulations would be beneficial for both prevention of adverse events as well as streamline the process of synbio drug approval.
We decided to address this gap in current Canadian regulations by writing a policy brief.
Engagement
Collaboration
Safety
Safety is very important to any product of science; as such, we take safety very seriously in our lab. See our safety practices as well as the safety considerations for our project on our Safety page.
