Team:Tokyo Tech/Human Practices

Introduction

iGEM Team Tokyo_Tech has had outstanding projects every year especially in terms of experiments and modeling. This year, in order to develop furthermore, we had hold outreach activities positively from the beginning of our project. Also we had dialogues with the public and stakeholders to apply their advice to our project. Moreover, we had built this project, considering the contribution to society. Currently, synthetic biology is unfamiliar to the public, and in most cases, they cannot comprehend it easily. However, using Snow White story that everyone knows, our project is interesting and accessible. We did human practice activities to raise public interest in synthetic biology and to inspire the public to learn it with a familiar story, Snow White. What is more, our research about TA system and QS created “(ACA increase and decrease code)” and “(life and death of toxin-antitoxin wave on agar medium that controls protein expressions).” Additionally, we are doing the experiments of E. coli mutants that secrete proteins extracellularly. It makes a giant step toward technological developments in economy in the future.