Youth Biotech was born on December 2016 after a group of young science students from different parts of the world attended de UN Biodiversity Conference in Cancún as members of the PRRI delegation. Since, we’ve been working on projects regarding science communication, science regulation and policy making, as well as science development. Our iGEM team was formed under this last one goal, and together with Youth Biotech, our iGEM team members have organized and participated in different events such as

Online and partly presencial event hosted by ISGP’s “The Forum” and Youth Biotech at ITESM, organized by some members of the IGEM Team as part of the Youth Biotech group.

Discussion panel with government, industrial, and academy representatives in which emerging technologies such as synthetic biology were discussed insightfully. How new technologies are redefining what it means to be human. The intention was for the general audience to understand, so previously sessions were held by ISGP’s The Forum as part of the total event, (has several sessions). This event has held live from the UK, Mexico and United States and free for all the internet to see. It was a colab. Between ISGP's "The Forum" (Princeton), Youth Biotech (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Guadalajara) ajd Cornell Alliance for Science (Cornell University).

Used the #SynbioLIVE https://www.facebook.com/isgpforum https://www.facebook.com/YouthBiotech Panelists at ITESM event: MSc. Juan Enríquez Cabot: Harvard University Professor , author of numerous articles in NYTimes, Harvard Press and TED talker. Dr. Oscar Aguilar Juárez: Quality Manager at the Center of Investigation and Techological Design and Assistance of Jalisco, Biotech Investigator. /Gestión de la Calidad en el Centro de Investigación y Asistencia en Tecnología y Diseño del Estado de Jalisco, Investigador de Biotecnología ambiental. Dr. Inocencio Higuera: General Director of CIATEJ. Director General de Ciencia y Desarrollo Tecnológico del Centro de Investigación y Asistencia en Tecnología en el Estado de Jalisco (CIATEJ). Dr. Luis J. Figueroa Yáñez: CIATEJ Investigator with expertise in Synthetic Biology.Investigador en el Centro de Investigación y Asistencia en Tecnología y Diseño del Estado de Jalisco A.C. (CIATEJ) con línea de investigación en Biología Sintética. Ing. Montserrat Mora: Operations & Logistics Manager at Biomentum. Dr. Morris Schawartzblatt y Katz: General Director of the Secretary of Science, Innovation and Technology of Jalisco, Government Representative /Director General de Secretaría de Ciencia, Innovación y Tecnología Mtro. Luis Ochoa: President of AMEXBIO, Mexican Association of Biosecurity A.C. /Presidente de la Asociación Mexicana de Bioseguridad A.C., Perteneciente al laboratorio Nacional de Referencia, el Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos (InDRE) Secretaría de Salud.

TECNOx is a community that promotes the use of open-source with the focus of attending local necessities social relevance in Latin America. Is an open-non-lucrative org with representatives from the Academy, Laboratories, FabLabs, Colleges, Hack-labs, DYIBio and ONGs, which work to organize the event throughout the continent.

It is held every year with Latin-american teams, culminates in the presentation of all the teams. The first one was held in Argentina with 200 participants total.

http://tecnox.exp.dc.uba.ar/

Role play activity made for the audience to present and argument their views/interests accordingly to their role government, industry and society towards a certain “dangerous chemical” that turned out to be H20. This to expose how can information be managed to spread fear in the society towards a particular topic. How can organizations twist information or even manipulate people’s views when sharing a limited one spectrum of information.

Event where a bunch of University students gathered with several workshops and activities an opportunity to do a Science communication & critical thinking workshop.

Jalisco Campus Party reunites the young talent of the country, making up the biggest technology and entrepreneurship community in Mexico, focused on innovation, creativity, science and digital entertainment.

Global event born a few years ago that has hosted big personalities and influential people such as Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak, Neil Armstrong, Bruce Dickinson, among others.

http://mexico.campus-party.org/2017/preguntas-frecuentes

Youth Biotech (IGEM Team members Diana Tamayo and Eliel Villegas presenting “The Ghosts of Biotechnology: Past, Present and Future”.

Members of the IGEM team with Biohub, a winning project from one of the main events at Campus Party. Their project is too make accesible lab equipment for schools and DYIsynbio scientists

International Society for Biosafety Research (ISBR) and the Local Organising Committee (LOC) organized the 14th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms (ISBGMO) June 4-8, 2017, in Guadalajara México. . The conference was held at the Fiesta Americana (Minerva) Hotel, Guadalajara. “The ISBGMO is a biennial, international meeting organised under the auspices of the ISBR, which has previously been hosted in Germany, Canada, China, France, Korea, New Zealand, Argentina, USA and South Africa.” “Bringing together academics, technology developers, regulatory authorities, non-government organisations and other credible stakeholders involved in all aspects of biosafety and offers a unique opportunity to share information and experiences and engage in open and meaningful dialogue on biosafety research, risk analysis, policy and regulatory matters”. “The goal of the symposium is to advance the standing of biosafety research around the world and shape the ways in which GM technology is applied and regulated. It will be the second time that the ISBGMO is hosted in a Latin-American country and we estimate that approximately 500 delegates will attend it, from at least 50 countries.” “The ISBGMO 2017 conference theme was"Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms: past, present and future", hoping that an in-depth analysis of 30 years of experience will help us advance the sound application of environmental risk assessment to limit environmental impacts and ensure safe food and feed, for the next generation of GMOs, and products derived from new technologies.”

Event held as a course for Risk Analysis, Risk Management and Risk Communication. It was the basics to understand how and on what bases certain measures should be taken to solve a problem or to avoid risks. The fundamentals of understanding and defining a path to harm in order to avoid it from what is trying to be protected or avoided.

We had a participation in this year’s GapSummit it Washington D.C., organized by the Global Biotech Revolution in which some of our members carried out science communication activities (VLOGS), the Summit selects 100 leaders of Tomorrow in Biotechnology to discuss solutions for the gaps on the Bioeconomy with current world leaders of Biotechnology

And later this October, some of our members will attend La Primera Cumbre Latinoamericana de Jóvenes Líderes en Biotecnología en Santiago de Chile, which also gathers a 100 leaders in Biotechnology and they’ll carry out as well, science communication activities.