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<div class="site_title">INTEGRATED PRACTICES</div>
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<h1>Gold Medal and Integrated Human Practices</h1>
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<p>This page will contain information for your Gold medal Human Practices work, which you can also use to nominate your team for the Best Integrated Human Practices page. To make things easier, we have combined the Gold medal page with the Best Integrated Human Practices page since we expect the work to overlap considerably. </p>
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<p>iGEM teams are unique and leading the field because they "go beyond the lab" to imagine their projects in a social/environmental context, to better understand issues that might influence the design and use of their technologies.</p>
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<p>The ultimate aim of our project is developing a food wrapper, we saw it fitting to consult
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<p>Teams work with students and advisors from the humanities and social sciences to explore topics concerning ethical, legal, social, economic, safety or security issues related to their work. Consideration of these Human Practices is crucial for building safe and sustainable projects that serve the public interest. </p>
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experts from the food preservation sector. In light of this, we approached Dr.G.R.Gopi, Director
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<p>For more information, please see the <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Competition/Human_Practices">Human Practices page</a>.</p>
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Fermentech GSV PVT LTD , Thanjavur and Dr.Ng.Iboyaima Singh, Senior Principal scientist, Dept of
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Fruit and Vegetable technology, CFTRI. We presented our project to both of them and discussed the
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pros and cons of our application.</p>
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<h3>Gold Medal Criterion #1</h3>
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<p>Expand on your silver medal activity by demonstrating how you have integrated the investigated issues into the design and/or execution of your project.</p>
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<h3>Best Integrated Human Practices Special Prize</h3>
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To compete for the <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Judging/Awards">Best Integrated Human Practices prize</a>, please describe your work on this page and also fill out the description on the <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Judging/Judging_Form">judging form</a>.
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<p>Dr.G.R Gopi suggested that the haemolytic activity of the peptide could be altered by mutating the
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You must also delete the message box on the top of this page to be eligible for this prize.
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native peptide. On exploring this thought further, we came across a case study that was carried out by
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Alexander A.Vassilevski et al. It proposed that a parameter related to hydrophobicity at the N-terminal
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of the peptide could be used as a measure of its tendency to exhibit haemolytic activity. After several
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discussions, we concluded that the working with the mutated peptide would be more appropriate.<p>
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<h5>Inspiration</h5>
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<p>Dr.Ng.Iboyaima Singh felt that our delivery mechanism wasn't feasible. Initially, we planned on
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enclosing our peptide within two semi permeable membranes. Dr.Singh pointed out that this idea
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would not be cost effective while scaling up. He suggested that we look into active antimicrobial
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<li><a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:INSA-Lyon/Integrated_Practices">2016 INSA Lyon</a></li>
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packaging as a viable alternative. We took up his suggestion and tried to best fit to our project.</p>
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<li><a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:UofC_Calgary/Integrated_Practices">2016 UofC Calgary</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Bielefeld-CeBiTec/Practices">2015 Bielefeld</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Edinburgh/Practices">2015 Edinburgh</a></li>
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