Education and Public Engagement

This year, the target audiences of SYSU-MEDICINE are high school students, college students and the ordinary citizens.

For high school students, 21 students and 2 teachers were invited from middle school to attend this activity – “Have a Look at Your Genome”, which aims at sharing some basic knowledge of biology and synthetic biology and sharing what we were doing with iGEM. We found that it was difficult for them to understand what are iGEM, synthetic biology and our project. So we made a brochure链接到小册子1 to introduce those definitions to the public. And for sustainability, we made a booklet to guide high school to build biological laboratory, which will make it easier and more interesting for high school students to learn about basic knowledge and experiments of synthetic biology. More 链接到"Have a Look at Your Genome"

A major problem turn up during CCiC – most college students do not know MSCs treatment, much less majority of people in the world. Though we had made a brochure introducing iGEM, synthetic biology and our project, it proved that it was much less enough. As for college students, we held a speech called ‘MSC with GPS’ to explain what is MSCs therapy and how we can make it more effective. Additionally, questionnaires of lab safety were sent out for learning how well college students know and behave, after which a brochure introducing MSCs was made.

As for ordinary citizens, we transform unintelligible knowledge of MSCs into popular and easy-to-understand stories for the public to learn, which are presented on the Internet. The questionnaires about acknowledgment of MSCs therapy and clinical trials, after finishing each question, we explained the misunderstanding part to the person who answers the questionnaire, helping them know more.

For further understanding the methods of enhancing the chemotsxis of MSCs, we read a lot of literatures and wrote a review in Chinese, contributing to an academic journal. More.链接到综述

Have a Look at Your Genome