From 2012.igem.org

HUMAN PRACTICES

- The beginning

Our time was started by the researcher Mateus Lopes from ICB-USP, which couldn't continuum in the group as a leader and became a collaborator. After a while the group became a student initiative, headed by two graduate students (Marcelo Boareto and Edgar Andrés Ochoa C.) and one undergraduate student (Otto Heringer).

The researcher Mateus Lopes also created the Biology Synthetic Club, which was adopted by Otto Heringer. This Club became a multidisciplinary group, which goal is to create a space that could be used for publishing and discussing about synthetic biology in Brazil. It also aims to keep the university participating in the iGEM competition. The group created the Synbio Brasil blog, which is an important tool for teaching synthetic biology in Portuguese.

This is the first participation of São Paulo University (USP) the third Brazilian team in the iGEM and. Our projects were important not only for training students in the biology synthetic field but also to improve our theoretical and practical knowledge.

- Divulgation over Synthetic Biology

Lectures and meetings were used to spread our ideas among student, professors and interested people at university. We talked also about synthetic biology and our projects for the iGEM 2012 competition.

- Synthetic Biology Club

It is a club organized by students to discuss about biology synthetic, its possible applications and new ideas!

- Synbio Brazil

The blog Synbio Brasil was invited to become a member of Science Blog Brasil, which join the more important scientific blogs in our country. It has been important to discuss our projects, news and explain concept from the field to the interested community.

- Crowdfunding feedback

Our team became famous due to interviews in television and newspapers. The main interest of the media was the Crowdfunding we accomplished to pay the fee for the iGEM competition, the succeed campaign was possible because we created a video(in English) that included informs over biology synthetic and the competition.