Human Practices Silver

Public engagement

In order to reach out to the society, LiU iGEM has participated in several events to get in touch with the public and other students and spread the word about iGEM and synthetic biology.

Nordic iGEM Conference

The team from Copenhagen Denmark invited all the Nordic iGEM teams to a mini iGEM conference. The conference was held through June 9th to June 11th and a total of nine teams from Denmark, Finland and Sweden were represented.

The conference started with presentations from two Danish iGEM-teams from 2016, CosmoCrops and DTU BioBuilders, where they told us about their projects and experiences of the Giant Jamboree in Boston. This was followed by a barbeque, where the teams had a chance to get to know each other and get a sneak peek of what each team had decided to do for their project.

The second day had the full day scheduled, starting with workshops called Business & Innovation in iGEM and Communication, how to sell your project. Later, there was a mini jamboree where all represented teams presented their projects. The day ended with a nice dinner, where the winner of the mini jamboree was announced and team Lund was the lucky winner. They received the prize, a golden pipette, and were asked to host the next Nordic iGEM Conference.

The last day started with a workshop called Feedback session, where the teams gave each other feedback on their projects and presentation. Another workshop followed in Ethics. The day then ended in a final lunch with the other teams.

Linköping City Festival

LiU iGEM will be present at Linköping City Festival in the 25th and 26th of August 2017. At the festival, we will have a mini-lab where children can come and can grow their one "bacteria" on petri dishes with jelly-agar. At set out times during the festival we will lead a more serious lab where children can join in and purify DNA from kiwi fruit. We will also give away sheets with information about Alzheimer's disease, synthetic biology, and the iGEM competition. There will also be a quiz where the public can test their knowledge about Alzheimer´s disease.

Media

Social Media

By frequently updating our Facebook and Instagram account, we have allowed our followers to see how our work is proceeding. In our posts we showed different experiment from the lab.

Reaching the broader public

We wanted to reach the public and inform them about our project. This has been seen in the newspaper Fokus Almedalen.