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Team:Duke/Human Practices
From 2012.igem.org
Engineering New Human Practices for the 21st Century
The 2012 Duke iGEM Team has approached human practice through a variety of methods including collaborations with other teams, examination of current synthetic biology policy, and helping start up and mentor local High School iGEM chapters.
Collaboration at College Level
The Duke iGEM Team has sought to collaborate with other teams at both the college and high school level as well as draw disseminate information about synthetic biology throughout our local communities. Mouse over the collaboration badge we received from iGEM TU_Munich below to see the animation!
This badge marks the collaboration between the Duke iGEM Team and iGEM TU_Munich. This "Original Bavarian Collaboration-Medal" indicates that the Duke iGEM Team collaborated with iGEM TU_Munich by providing feedback for one of their Human Practice Studies.
Outreach at High School level
In addition to collaborating with college teams, the Duke iGEM Team played a direct hand in starting and mentoring the 2012 North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM) highschool iGEM Team. One of Duke iGEM's undergraduate members, Peter Fan, co-founded and co-lead the team as a senior in high school after participating with Duke iGEM 2011. Peter and his research partner, Aakash Indurkhya, applied for grants to fund the team, presented the 2011 Duke iGEM Team's research project to their student body in order to generate interest, and provided mentorship. The NCSSM iGEM Team performed spectacularly in their first year and earned the title of 1st Runner Up (2nd Place overall) and honorable mention for best new biological part--natural at the 2012 iGEM HS Jamboree. More information about the 2012 NCSSM iGEM Team can be found on their wiki at:
Although he's now graduated Peter hopes that the NCSSM iGEM Team will continue to be successful in their research endeavors and has become an AlumniGEM high school mentor. He's currently attempting to establish iGEM Teams at other local high schools in his community. In addition, he's attempting to gather interest at UNC-Chapel Hill for a synthetic biology pilot program which will be added to UNC-Chapel Hill's Biomedical Engineering Department and hopefully will result in a 2013 UNC-CH iGEM Team.
