Team:Korea-SIS/Education
Education
Science Communication
To complete our science communication on synthetic biology, our team decided to make a presentation about the basics of synthetic biology. Even though the whole iGEM competition is based around the usage of synthetic biology, we realized that we did not know much about what it actually meant. Thus, we decided to give a presentation to other iGEM teams and the public, with the question, “What exactly is synthetic biology?”
Previous to this meet up for this science communication, we had past presentations on the subject matter of iGEM. Such meetups include our meetup with other iGEM teams such as KUAS where we both talked about our specific project and iGEM as a whole, as well as our meet ups with Korea-HS and KSA Korea. In our synthetic biology presentation, we introduced biology security problems and possible areas for future development as our project utilized a lot of the biologically synthesized products. We considered the risks of biosecurity of the potential users before mass producing and raised awareness to the public eye.
After conducting research on what kind of presentations we could give, we decided to create a presentation as we wanted something that was easily accessible online. Using Zoom, our team prepared a short presentation going over the elementary features of synthetic biology. We went over the purposes and results of synthetic biology, the differences between synthetic biology and genome editing, and the ethical and social implications of synthetic biology. We showed certain images to go along with the specific information for easier understanding.
With an international audience, with people from Asia to South America, we felt that we had met our goal of publicizing the idea of synthetic biology and its applications in the real world. In essence, the main goal, which was to open the participants’ eyes to the general aspect of synthetic biology, was achieved in our science communication.
