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		+	== Education ==
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		+	'''iGEM Summerschool: food and microbes!'''
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		+	This year, iGEM Groningen presents the first edition of the iGEM/Sciencelinx Summerschool, where students from the age 16-18 can experience microbiology and synthetic biology themselves. The programme includes several experiments introducing microbiology but also a visit to a research facility and to the science/arts festival Noorderzon. Furthermore, the students will set up a project to find out how safe the food from their own supermarket is...
		+	The programme will soon be displayed on this site.
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		+	[[File:Groningen_RR20120108_summerschool.jpg]]
-	== International Cooperation ==
-	== Education ==	+	|}
-		+	== Night of Art and Science ==
-	=== Night of Art and Science ===	+
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	'''Bacterial Beauty: the Art of Science'''		'''Bacterial Beauty: the Art of Science'''
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	Artist [http://www.leenvanwijngaarden.nl/Leenvanwijngaarden/home.html Leen van Wijngaarden] was fascinated by the colors and shapes of bacterial colonies and decided to make art with them. Not just a pretty picture on a regular agar plate (like this [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HijhRK2BkjA/S2ggPYgVgYI/AAAAAAAABhg/fxaE4Lxt93w/s400/onlinepaint.jpg well-known example]), but on a large scale. This should produce nice paintings, which keep evolving. The results were to be exposed during the culture festival [http://www.denachtvankunstenwetenschap.nl/en/ "The Night of Art and Science"].		Artist [http://www.leenvanwijngaarden.nl/Leenvanwijngaarden/home.html Leen van Wijngaarden] was fascinated by the colors and shapes of bacterial colonies and decided to make art with them. Not just a pretty picture on a regular agar plate (like this [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HijhRK2BkjA/S2ggPYgVgYI/AAAAAAAABhg/fxaE4Lxt93w/s400/onlinepaint.jpg well-known example]), but on a large scale. This should produce nice paintings, which keep evolving. The results were to be exposed during the culture festival [http://www.denachtvankunstenwetenschap.nl/en/ "The Night of Art and Science"].

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Education

iGEM Summerschool: food and microbes!
This year, iGEM Groningen presents the first edition of the iGEM/Sciencelinx Summerschool, where students from the age 16-18 can experience microbiology and synthetic biology themselves. The programme includes several experiments introducing microbiology but also a visit to a research facility and to the science/arts festival Noorderzon. Furthermore, the students will set up a project to find out how safe the food from their own supermarket is... The programme will soon be displayed on this site.

Night of Art and Science

Bacterial Beauty: the Art of Science
Artist [http://www.leenvanwijngaarden.nl/Leenvanwijngaarden/home.html Leen van Wijngaarden] was fascinated by the colors and shapes of bacterial colonies and decided to make art with them. Not just a pretty picture on a regular agar plate (like this [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HijhRK2BkjA/S2ggPYgVgYI/AAAAAAAABhg/fxaE4Lxt93w/s400/onlinepaint.jpg well-known example]), but on a large scale. This should produce nice paintings, which keep evolving. The results were to be exposed during the culture festival [http://www.denachtvankunstenwetenschap.nl/en/ "The Night of Art and Science"].

Bacterial Beauty meets iGEM

The iGEM team met Leen at the right time: from helping with the setup, iGEM got a bigger role in the project and started to design their own drawings. Because of the microbiological background of many team members, we could help Leen not only during the making of the pictures, but we could also take the oppurtunity to teach the visitors of the Night about the beauty of bacteria, their use, synthetic biology and our project.

But there is more...

Apart from exposing the bio-paintings and the huge "bio-billboard", time lapse movies of bacteria growing on a normal plate and microscopic images of bacteria were shown. Furthermore, in aid of explaining about synthetic biology, our team showed some paintings with an overview of our project.

As an extra feature, a "bacterial wall of fame" was built, with handprints of "famous people from Groningen" was made. People, including some iGEM members, had pressed their hands on agar plates, which where afterwards incubated over night. At the night, this showed a nice diversity of skin inhabitants...

Press about Bacterial Beauty

Local newspaper, “de Groninger Gezinsbode” ([http://www.gezinsbode.nl/nieuws/15066/grote-belangstelling-voor-bruisende-nacht-van-kunst-en-wetenschap/ click here]) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen “Faculteitsnieuwsbrief” (click here) Weblog “de Nacht” ([http://www.denachtvankunstenwetenschap.nl/blog/2012/winnaars-bio-billboard-bekend/ click here]) Filmimpression of the festival ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFLkljuP_2c click here])

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