Team:Potsdam Bioware/Project/At a Glance

At a Glance

Antibody Generation System

Collaboration

We are helping the University Freiburg team to test their Transactivator-like (TAL) proteins by sending one of our modified AID enzymes for ligation to the TAL domain. Team Freiburg, on the other hand, plans to sends us back the TAL domain linked via glycine-serine linker to the AID. Afterwards, we plan to check the mutation rate of the antibody sequence after directing the AID specifically (with help of TAL protein) to it.
SocialBrick

The idea of SocialBrick is to divide all human practice acts into different parts: the SocialBricks. Here, the SocialBricks stands for every activity which aims to inform the people about the synthetic biology. We hope that the term SocialBrick will be accepted like the term Biobrick and will be integrated in a registry to show the society what every team has done for more elucidation.
For this year we focused on two SocialBricks: “Science meets Politics” and “Science meets People”. For the first one we interviewed politicians from the German parliament: the Bundestag and discussed about the synthetic biology. For the latter we organized a survey with over 60 people to ask about the knowledge about synthetic biology.