Team:AQA Unesp/Engagement
iGEM AQA_Unesp
public engagement
events and presentations
Visited Ouro Fino
To interact with companies that works with Bioprocess and Biotechnology, we went to meet a Brazilian company in the area of animal health, called Ourofino, which works with the development of veterinary drugs and other products for animals, including vaccines. We had a wonderful day at the company and an interesting exchange of knowledge. They told us about how the company works, in especial the departament of new drugs development, and we told them about the activities we develop at the university, including the INSUBIOTA.
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Lecture in the “Week of Industrial Biotechnology”
We were invited by the Usp-EEL-Brazil Igem’s team of 2016 to hold a lecture in the academic event “Week of Industrial Biotechnology” at the University of São Paulo, Lorena Campus. Our team brought a new view of probiotics and genetically modified organisms in the treatment of diseases, showing that is possible to use engineered cells with health increase purposes. In this experience, we could present our Insubiota project for almost 100 people and exchange interesting knowledge with biochemistry engineering students.
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BiotecShow
BiotecShow is an event hosted by the UNESP Araraquara National League of Biotechnology Academics(LiNA Araraquara) that aims to show people how biotechnology is integrated in our daily lives by doing several experiment and expositions. Our team took part in the 2016 BiotecShow, where we could present a poster about our project and synthetic biology.
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Health Fair
We also took part in a health fair hosted by the Student Permanent Pharmaceutical Assistance Program of our faculty in our city. In the fair, there was a diabetes stand where people could check their blood glucose level and receive orientation about. Our team presented again a poster about the project to spread it and help the awareness of diabetes. Besides that, we gave them yoghurt made by us and, in exchange, we ask them to donate whatever amount of money to help us raising fund to our project.
