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- | | At the | + | | At the beginning of 2012, Garage Lab contacted our instructors to begin a productive relationship. They believe in the impact the use of Synthetic Biology's standard parts of could have in Argentina, as a tool to help solve endemic issues and they want it to become part of their projects and society. Since then we had a formal presentation of the group and our main project at a Garage Lab Meeting and several of our team members have attended the group meetings often. |
Shortly after the first contact with Garage Lab, they came to our laboratory and together we planned on giving use to the parts that come in the Kit in order to assess a key problem in Buenos Aires, which is the contamination present at Riachuelo, a branch of Río de la Plata. | Shortly after the first contact with Garage Lab, they came to our laboratory and together we planned on giving use to the parts that come in the Kit in order to assess a key problem in Buenos Aires, which is the contamination present at Riachuelo, a branch of Río de la Plata. |
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Garage Lab
GarageLab is a group of scientists, artists and engineers cofounded by Emiliano Kargieman and Dario Wainer in 2009 as a Workshop about Bioengineering at the University of Palermo. During these years, it grew up to be a multitasking group, by getting involved in subjects such as Neuro-robotics, Contamination assessment, Data Privacy and Management, Personalized Medicine, Public Information and Problematics of Open Innovation. Now a days, the group has 22 active members and 5 projects with Non governmental organizations. They are evolving in order to become an institution and in process of building a propper infrastructure that would allow the resolution of high impact issues, as much as bigger workshops, hackatons, talks, conferences and developments. You can find out more about this creative and talented group of people at: http://garagelab.tumblr.com/ or their twitter http://twitter.com/garagelab |
Learn and play session
Of the several reunions that we had at Garage Lab, perhaps the most interesting was the one in which one of our members taught Synthetic Biology to a group of computer scientists and engineers through a game. The key question was not "How does DNA works?" but "How can we make it work for us?" Through these talks we find out how people from different disciplines other than natural sciences come up with new ideas and points of view that challenge and make us rethink biology. We are planing to develop a game (either a computer game, a cards game or both) for spreading synthetic biology concepts and strategies among young and non specialized people |
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Future plans: Solving local problems
Impact in the media
"Alumnos argentinos, por primera vez en un “Mundial” de biología" Diario el Día, 10/22/12.
"Argentinos clasificaron para el concurso mundial de biología sintética" Diario Hoy, 10/22/12.
"Competencia mundial de Biología Sintética" Aptus Noticias educativas, 10/21/12.
"Argentinos clasificaron para el concurso mundial de biología sintética" Agencia de noticias TELAM, 10/20/12.
"Argentinos clasificaron para el concurso mundial de biología sintética" TV Perú Noticias , 10/20/12.
"Debut y éxito argentino en olimpiadas de biología sintética" Nota en el portal CyTA. 10/19/12.
"Debut y éxito argentino en olimpiadas de biología sintética" Tomamateyavivate, 10/19/12.
"Estudiantes argentinos pasan a la etapa final de un certamen mundial" Nota en la página de noticias del CONICET, 10/19/2012.
"Elegidos del Conicet" Página 12, 20/10/12.
"iGEM Buenos Aires: Synthetic bacterial communities" Lab Rat blog at scientificamerican.com 9/9/12.