Team:Amazonas Brazil/Human Practices
Integrated Human Practices
For this season, we come up with a standard BioBrick toolbox to bacterial genome engineering: CRISPeasy! To better understand the current paradigm for CRISPR in iGEM and design a functional and optimized project, we reviewed CRISPR projects in previous years. Some teams even shared their CRISPR experience with us, recalling challenges they faced while developing their projects. Based on this, we proposed a framework to guide the development of iGEM projects, based on primarily understanding the community and its demands and, through a network of collaborations, designing, building, testing and applying solutions in a creative and efficient way. Read more
Education and Public Engagement
In 2017 we kept pushing forward accessible science from the heart of the Amazon to the world. For iGEM community, we studied what makes an iGEM team successful, in terms of prizes and medals, by applying Machine Learning to recognize patterns like economical indicators and investment in education and science; addressing inequality and social development. Going further, we studied the current scenario of bureaucracy that hampers the importing of biological parts in Brazil and compared it to other countries in the world. Then, we met Brazil’s regulatory importing agency and uncovered the main obstacles that complicate this process and came up with a guideline to aid researchers. Finally, for this year’s Jamboree we come up with iGEM’s first augmented reality banner, immersing deeply the viewers into our project. Read more
