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<p>Our goal in this year’s iGEM Competition was to produce designer chitosan. Chitosan is a deacetylated biopolymer of chitin. To learn more in detail about chitosan, we decided to talk to experts to improve our project. In this context, we invited the president of the European Chitin Society, Prof. Dr. Bruno Moerschbacher from the Westfalian Wilhelm’s University Münster to visit us which he then did on the 25th of July. It was a full day of interesting conversations and helpful information. After we presented our project, he told us about his broad experiences with chitosan and different chitin deacetylases he had already worked with.  
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In the end, his visit resulted in some crucial changes of direction in our project. <br>
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Because of tips and information he provided us with, we dropped the quite difficult work concerning one of our chitin deacetylases from the fungus <i>Puccinia graminis f. sp. Tritici</i> (PUC). Instead, we started working on a new chitin deacetylase from the organism <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> (COD), as he advised us to. So his input shaped our project considerably and enabled us to get on the right track.<br>
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But this was not the only point in which he assisted us. Prof. Dr. Bruno Moerschbacher decided to offer us his help for the duration of the project, after he experienced the passion that we showed. <br>
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<p>During our stay in Stockholm with five of our team members, we had the opportunity to visit the local German school. There, we spoke to final year students about iGEM and synthetic biology as a field of study. Our goal was to engage in a conversation with them rather than just telling them about our experiences. We wanted to learn more about their thoughts and what they imagined biology to be. For this purpose, we designed an interactive presentation.
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From this day on he was a huge supporter and helped us in many different aspects of our project. For the Chitin Synthase group, he suggested a thin-layer chromatography (TLC) assay. For the Chitin Deacetylases group he helped even more. Beside the replacement of one of our chitin deacetylases, he suggested the TLC assay as well as the acetic acid kit. He and his AG were very kind and helped us with all our questions that arose during the project and provided possible approaches for our problems. <br>
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Even though it was still early in the morning, the students were eager to learn more about our work and readily took to our questions.
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His input had great impact on our project and the way we moved forward with our work. In return, we hope that we managed to leave a good lasting impression. Also, we like to think, we did a good job of introducing him to the concept of iGEM. <br><br>
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Especially towards the end, we had a great discussion about ethics in biological work. Unfortunately, it was cut short due to time reasons.  
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For us, it was great to see how younger people, yet uninvolved in science, perceived biology. It thought us that the students are willing to learn more and seek further education. We feel that it is our responsibility as young scientists to teach and inspire them to pursue this eagerness to learn.
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We want to thank Mrs Delp for giving us the possibility to have this informative and constructive session with her students. We really enjoyed it and learned about how to modify our lessons for other schools.  
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The experience in Stockholm taught us that we should focus more on including the students into our presentation, and to arrange enough time for discussion. On the 18 of October, three of us went to the Johanna-Geissmar Gymnasium (high school) and gave a lesson in two classes of senior students. We conducted a fifteen-minute presentation about who we are, what iGEM is and then showed them our e-learning platform <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:TU_Darmstadt/human_practices/clonecademy">"Clonecademy"</a>. We created a interactive module imparting the basics of biology to the students, where they can test themselves on "what I´ve learned in school so far". Enthusiastically the students plunged into working on these modules and scored high. They seemed excited to work with Clonecademy and were greatly interested in modules dealing with topics that are relevant for their Abitur (graduation), such as cell biology, genetic engineering, and cellular neuroscience. We aspire to create such modules in January with the result that all students graduating in Baden-Württemberg (Germany) can use this platform to be prepared for their last exam in high school with outstanding success.  
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Latest revision as of 14:52, 1 November 2017

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Integrated Human Practices

Our goal in this year’s iGEM Competition was to produce designer chitosan. Chitosan is a deacetylated biopolymer of chitin. To learn more in detail about chitosan, we decided to talk to experts to improve our project. In this context, we invited the president of the European Chitin Society, Prof. Dr. Bruno Moerschbacher from the Westfalian Wilhelm’s University Münster to visit us which he then did on the 25th of July. It was a full day of interesting conversations and helpful information. After we presented our project, he told us about his broad experiences with chitosan and different chitin deacetylases he had already worked with. In the end, his visit resulted in some crucial changes of direction in our project.
Because of tips and information he provided us with, we dropped the quite difficult work concerning one of our chitin deacetylases from the fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. Tritici (PUC). Instead, we started working on a new chitin deacetylase from the organism Vibrio cholerae (COD), as he advised us to. So his input shaped our project considerably and enabled us to get on the right track.
But this was not the only point in which he assisted us. Prof. Dr. Bruno Moerschbacher decided to offer us his help for the duration of the project, after he experienced the passion that we showed.
From this day on he was a huge supporter and helped us in many different aspects of our project. For the Chitin Synthase group, he suggested a thin-layer chromatography (TLC) assay. For the Chitin Deacetylases group he helped even more. Beside the replacement of one of our chitin deacetylases, he suggested the TLC assay as well as the acetic acid kit. He and his AG were very kind and helped us with all our questions that arose during the project and provided possible approaches for our problems.
His input had great impact on our project and the way we moved forward with our work. In return, we hope that we managed to leave a good lasting impression. Also, we like to think, we did a good job of introducing him to the concept of iGEM.

Figure 1. CompuGene with Prof. Dr. Moerschbacher. Us exchanging ideas and experiences with Prof. Dr. Moerschbacher.