Team:St Andrews/Public-outreach

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Get Involved!

Synthetic Biology is just too exciting not to share - we want you to get involved too!

Engage with us: Together we'll Engage with the Future.

In person: we've hosted stalls at NSEW (National Science and Engineering Week) Events and at UoS' (University of St Andrews)600th Anniversary Event "Food for Thought"; we've delivered TEDx talks as well. Online: Contribute to our debates - "What is Life?" - through Twitter and Facebook!


Science Discovery Day


Fife Science Festival 2012 logo

National Science and Engineering Week exploded in Fife with a regional "Science Discovery Day". Team St Andrews worked to convey fundamental concepts in Genetic Engineering and Synthetic Biology in new and exciting ways. The interactive "Codon Game", 3 - Dimensional Visualizations of DNA and DNA polymerase and the display "E. Coli: Under the Microscope" were well received. Children and adults alike were fascinated when DNA was extracted from bananas using everyday kitchen equipment.



Festival's website

TEDxUniversityofStAndrews


TEDxUniversityofStAndrews logo

Team member Josi presents "Spider Mutants and Bioterrorism - an Overview of Synthetic Biology as an Emerging Scientific Discipline" to a “TEDx” audience of over eighty scientists and non - scientists akin. Josi views the field as "ground breaking" and by the end of her talk, members of her audience too admit surprise at the wealth of possibilities that this new research area makes available. There is excitement at the tantalizing proximity of reality of these ideas.


Events website
TEDx profile

Become Involved Yourself!

Engage in debate and learn more about our progress - "Follow" Team St Andrews on Twitter and "Like" our Facebook page!

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University of St Andrews, 2012.

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This iGEM team has been funded by the MSD Scottish Life Sciences Fund. The opinions expressed by this iGEM team are those of the team members and do not necessarily represent those of Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited, nor its Affiliates.