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<p><font size=4>In Korea, many biologically-related affairs occurred like the cases above. Many interpretation can exists, explaining the reason behind the cause of the affairs, but we thought of 2 major reasons.</font></p><br>
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<ul><li>Lack of measures and laws related to biotechnology</li>
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<p><font size=4>We, as IGEMers, thought of solutions to solve these problems. </font></p>
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<h5>Seminar on Strategy for <br>National Defense Against Biothreat</h5>
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<p><font size=4><strong><strong>Korea_U_Seoul</strong></strong> had collaborated with ‘<a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:KoreaSonyeodul">KoreaSonyeodul</a> team from Hankuk Foreign Language High School. <strong>‘<strong>KoreaSonyeodul</strong>’</strong> is a team made up with 7 high school girls, and this year is their first time participating iGEM. We, <strong><strong>Korea_U_Seoul</strong></strong> team has participated iGEM since 2009, therefore our persistent experience on iGEM and synthetic biology-related activities could help them starting things up, through this collaboration.</font></p><br>
<p><font size=4>The seminar insisting the policy motion covering the preparation for potential threat of biotechnology was held in the Republic of Korean Parliamentarian Society.
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<p><font size=4>The collaboration was mainly proceeded in two categories: <a href="#mentor">mentoring new high school team</a>, and <a href="#exp">experimental exchanges</a>. </font></p>
Korea_U_Seoul participated this seminar, and could gain new insights on how bio-related-technologies can be misused threatfully.</font></p>
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<li>As a policy maker, even elder statesmen of the National Assembly were not informed about the mechanism of bio-terrorism and the spread of infectious diseases.</li>
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<li>Despite the political status of divided country in the middle of ceasefire, Korea is not enough prepared for biological threats.
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<p><font size=4>After several contacts via e-mail, we could finally have a chance to meet <strong>KoreaSonyeodul</strong>. The first meet up was held in June, at Korea University. Since <strong>Korea_U_Seoul</strong> and <strong>KoreaSonyeodul</strong> are the only Korean team this year, it was in fact a quite meaningful session that all the Korean participants were gathering. </font></p><br>
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<p><font size=4>First part of the meet up was about introducing our own project. <strong>Korea_U_Seoul</strong> prepared a brief speech on who we are, what we have done in last 7 years with iGEM, and our plans for this year’s project. </font></p><br>
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<p><font size=4>Next was <strong>KoreaSonyeodul</strong>. They proposed what they had in mind, and it was a brilliant idea so we actively participated with bunch of questions and answers coming and going. </font></p><br>
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<p><font size=4>Besides contents of the project itself, collaboration session was meaningful enough in the means of giving a real help to difficulties most of iGEM newbies are facing. </font></p><br>
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<p><font size=4>We went through the realistic preparations on iGEM jamboree participation, such as registration, transportations and accommodation reservations together with advices of former participants from our team. Also, we together checked the important schedules with essential requirements such as team/personal registration, wiki freeze and part submission. Especially, since experiment schedules often require a long time with many variables occurring in real time, we could give advices on planning the overall project to <strong>KoreaSonyeodul</strong> which didn’t have much lab experiences before. </font></p><br>
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<p><font size=4>More than filling the requirements and essential preparations, we could deeply communicate about difficulties in running such a big project by our own as a student. Especially in the sense of handling a whole project, we discussed about how <strong>Korea_U_Seoul</strong> is dealing with our own team management and organization. Dividing team into smaller groups and having weekly communication session where each group exchange their group’s progress could harden the teamwork and help <strong>Korea_U_Seoul</strong> to be a long-lasting team, which was the most important thing in overall. </font></p><hr><br>
  
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<p><font size=4>This seminar was executed with the purpose of improving above mentioned problems.</font></p></ul>
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<h4>Korea U Seoul’s direction of activity set-up</h4>
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<ul>The difference exists between domestic and overseas bio-management system.
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<li>As the first step of solving these problems, we searched on research management system / bio-management system related to bioethics and research ethics.</li>
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<li>Second, by hearing advises of experts from each field and gathering them, we desired to make a source book which can be used as a reference in policy making</li>
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<li>Third, we tried to contact the policy manager to deliver our opinion on this project</li>
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<li>Fourth, we desired the positive change in Korea’s biotechnology / synthetic biology management policy</li></ul><br>
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<p><font size=4>We proceeded through the first step, but failed in hearing advises from experts, so we revised our plan.</font></p><br>
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<p><font size=4>The members of <strong>KoreaSonyeodul</strong> came to our lab to look around and have a meeting with our PI. They consulted us about their project, and we helped them to schedule their experiments. Since they did not have their own lab, they shared the lab with us. They never had any experience with lab work such as cloning, so we taught them how things are done. We taught and helped with their part cloning(Restriction enzyme cloning) and LIC cloning. We also helped the with their part registration and submission. </font></p>
<ul><li>Limitation of professionalism – the fact that we were new to this field</li>
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<p><font size=4><strong>BUT, we refused to give up. We came up with plan B.</strong></font></p>
 
<p><font size=4>In order to provide an efficient system, active discussion among general public is necessary. Therefore, Korea_U_Seoul decided to set our sights on bringing about public concern and discussion on ongoing matters synthetic biology / biotechnology is facing. </font></p>
 
  
  
  
 
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<p><font size=4>As a first step of being a synthetic biologist who directly communicates with society rather than merely researching in a laboratory, we tried to interact with general public by educating and publicizing on synthetic biology.</font></p>
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<p><font size=4>In order to accomplish above mentioned objective, we selected the theme of ethical issues synthetic biology / biotechnology is currently facing.</font></p>
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<font size=3>The target was the general public who are interested in synthetic biology / biotechnology. The open seminar was an opportunity to directly communicate about iGEM and many other projects on synthetic biology, including the ethical issues.</font></p>
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<li>1st week : Introducing synthetic biology / iGEM / Korea_U_Seoul</li>
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<li>Number of participants: about 40 people in average each for 4 weeks</li>
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<li>Survey research: Since it was the first time for us to hold a seminar, we progressed a survey for further improvements</li></ul><br>
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I was interested in ethics. It was very satisfying because I could discuss lots of topics and share thoughts.
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I understand that DIY bio is very good, but we need regulations about Bio crackers as well as Bio hackers first.
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Through seminar, I could think about the two topics about biological ethics. It refeshed my thoughts I had when I do experiments in school, and I could get more acquaintances which scientists and teachers need to know.
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I have heard about Synthetic biology before, but through this semina I could fully understand this study. Also, discsussions were so instructive for me. It was such a good experience. Thanks.
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Good job.
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<p><font size=4>In order to academically communicate with other biology-major undergraduates of Korea and make synthetic biology more widely known, we Korea U Seoul joined Associated BioConference consisting of YBSF of Yonsei University, LEBEN of Sogang University, HOLIC of Hanyang Universitiy, and LALS of Korea University. By actively participating and leading the Associated BioConference, we could not only explain the concept of synthetic biology, but explain the ethical issues following with the development of synthetic biology and possible solution to the issues. </font></p><br>
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<ul><li><strong>Education about synthetic biology</strong></li>
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<ul><li>Aside from academic topics usually discussed at the Associated BioConference, we raised question about ethics (both research ethics and bioethics). We discussed about role of synthetic biologists and biologists dealing with the above issues, and shared individual insights. By the thorough discussion, we had a chance to expand our thought and knowledge about ethical issues in biology, especially in synthetic biology’s field. </li></ul></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="http://www.dongascience.com/">Science Dong-A</a>, is most popular and prominent science magazine in Korea (ranked No.9 in all magazine published in Korea, and No.1 science magazine category)</li>
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<li>Science Dong-A is actively used by middle and high school all around Korea as a material for science education in class for gifted students. Our team’s project was introduced thoroughly, and we expect synthetic biology to be more discussed in real classroom.</li>
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<h5>Korea U Seoul’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KUAS2016iGEM/">Facebook page</a></h5><br>
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<ul><li>More than 9100 hits! (9185)</li>
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<p><font size=4>Korea U Seoul extensively worked in promoting environmental, and biological insights to students by activities such as open seminar and Green Campus Event. These work was acknowledged by Korea University Social Service Organization (KUSSO, <a href="http://kusso.korea.ac.kr">http://kusso.korea.ac.kr</a>) and we are being funded by the organization. This funding is unique, since we are the only funded club with the category of academic association (Korea University association of Synthetic Biology) in Korea University. We plan to hold a synthetic biology seminar for newly recruited member of our team after 2016 iGEM. </font></p>
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<p><font size=4>In order to promote a bioethics related awareness to researchers and bio-industrialists, we thought that relevant information such as professional reports from bioethics leading countries should be well translated and distributed, with increased accessibility.</font></p>
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<p><font size=4>Accordingly, Korea_U_Seoul decided to translate an U.S. presidential report <New Directions: The Ethics of Synthetic Biology and Emerging Technologies>, which covers from general concept of synthetic biology and its emerging concerns, to 18 major recommendations of the presidential commission. This original text was published in 2010, and has been the fundamental guideline to science policy makers, bio-industrialists, researchers, and every people interested and related to synthetic biology in the U.S. </font></p>
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<p><font size=4>For the clear translation, we first standardized frequently used terminology that might be misinterpreted depending on the translator. After all, we started to translate the report from English to Korean. Since the report was covering ethical issues which might be sensitive in some circumstances, we tried to be clear and objective making sure that no personal opinion or nuance was added while translating it. The translation has ended including the final process of second-check and peer editing, and the translation was secondary elaborated to the PDF file format. Sample pages are uploaded below, and you can download the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxg5hDrmgtnyYmVMNHZNUVRpcjQ/view?usp=sharing">full text here. </a> </font></p>
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Collaborations

Collaborations


Korea_U_Seoul had collaborated with ‘KoreaSonyeodul team from Hankuk Foreign Language High School. KoreaSonyeodul is a team made up with 7 high school girls, and this year is their first time participating iGEM. We, Korea_U_Seoul team has participated iGEM since 2009, therefore our persistent experience on iGEM and synthetic biology-related activities could help them starting things up, through this collaboration.


The collaboration was mainly proceeded in two categories: mentoring new high school team, and experimental exchanges.



1. Mentoring a new high school team

After several contacts via e-mail, we could finally have a chance to meet KoreaSonyeodul. The first meet up was held in June, at Korea University. Since Korea_U_Seoul and KoreaSonyeodul are the only Korean team this year, it was in fact a quite meaningful session that all the Korean participants were gathering.


First part of the meet up was about introducing our own project. Korea_U_Seoul prepared a brief speech on who we are, what we have done in last 7 years with iGEM, and our plans for this year’s project.


Next was KoreaSonyeodul. They proposed what they had in mind, and it was a brilliant idea so we actively participated with bunch of questions and answers coming and going.


Besides contents of the project itself, collaboration session was meaningful enough in the means of giving a real help to difficulties most of iGEM newbies are facing.


We went through the realistic preparations on iGEM jamboree participation, such as registration, transportations and accommodation reservations together with advices of former participants from our team. Also, we together checked the important schedules with essential requirements such as team/personal registration, wiki freeze and part submission. Especially, since experiment schedules often require a long time with many variables occurring in real time, we could give advices on planning the overall project to KoreaSonyeodul which didn’t have much lab experiences before.


More than filling the requirements and essential preparations, we could deeply communicate about difficulties in running such a big project by our own as a student. Especially in the sense of handling a whole project, we discussed about how Korea_U_Seoul is dealing with our own team management and organization. Dividing team into smaller groups and having weekly communication session where each group exchange their group’s progress could harden the teamwork and help Korea_U_Seoul to be a long-lasting team, which was the most important thing in overall.



2. Experimental exchanges

The members of KoreaSonyeodul came to our lab to look around and have a meeting with our PI. They consulted us about their project, and we helped them to schedule their experiments. Since they did not have their own lab, they shared the lab with us. They never had any experience with lab work such as cloning, so we taught them how things are done. We taught and helped with their part cloning(Restriction enzyme cloning) and LIC cloning. We also helped the with their part registration and submission.