Team:Potsdam Bioware/Project/At a Glance

At a Glance

Antibody Generation System

Collaboration

We are working together with 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 send back the TAL domain linked to the AID via glycine-serine linker. Afterwards, we aim to check the mutation rate of the specifically directed AID to our antibody sequence.

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 Synthetic Biology. For the second part we organized a survey to ask about people's knowledge of Synthetic Biology and for their opinion on this scientific field.