Team:Tec-Chihuahua/HP

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• HUMAN PRACTICES
  • HUMAN PRACTICES
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
  • BEES & BEES
• MODEL
• ENTREPRENEURSHIP
• JUDGING
  • AWARDS
  • SAFETY

A project with the essence of ours would not be possible without the validation and feedback of expert researchers, beekeepers, and governmental organizations. The problem against which we are fighting has a global presence and for us, it was indispensable to listen also affected persons of outside our country. Making us stronger in the entrepreneurship part was also essential; the selling of a product of this nature implicates different marketing strategies and taking courses about this was crucial for the development of the business model.

We believe that for synthetic biology projects to catch the attention of the community and be considered, it is necessary for people to get informed, get involved and participate. We made different Public Engagement activities for pursuing this objective, covering from our principal concern, beekeepers, up to students from middle school till college. As mentioned before our local community is just a tiny part of the society so we got involved in national and international events.

The the project evolved got better and fitted in thanks to all the different events mentioned in this timeline. We present here a general overview of what we did in each event; when entering each section at the end of the page we detail how each experience molded our project.

Human Practices Timeline

High School Introductory Topics

Our very first public engagement activity, next generations are the key for synthetic biology development!

We shared with the next generation of biotechnologists of our institution, approximately 32 students, what iGEM was and what synthetic biology was.

March 2^nd

April 28^th

Meeting with Guillermo Rodríguez, president of the Cuauhtemoc city beekeepers’ association

This was our first direct approach with the beekeepers community! We discussed aspects like:

Current status of Foulbrood in Cuauhtémoc.

Existing methods to treat Foulbrood.

SAGARPA’s restrictions regarding products applied in the hive.

General characteristics of Apis mellifera’s life

Invitation to join the association in the next monthly beekeepers’ reunion in Cuauhtémoc.

Monthly beekeepers’ association reunion in Cuauhtémoc

Around 30 beekeepers ready to share with us their feedback and insights.

Presentation of our project.

Discussion of implications of the product like best application methods.

May 5^th

May 21^st

Innovation Week

We attended this state convention where figures regarding entrepreneurship talked about different topics like:

How to start a business and how to manage the business model; according to young and succesful entrepreneurs.

IMPI (Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial); How to create a patent?

How to adequately manage the incomes of an enterprise.

Meeting with Ing. Manuel Ramírez Salcido, a beekeeper from Delicias city

Discussion of aspects like:

Importance of pollination.

Restrictions implicated in European Union’s honey importation.

Innocuousness of the honey.

Different methods applied in hives to fight diseases.

May 26^th

June 7^th

Videoconference with MVZ Ernesto Tanús Sánchez

Discussion of aspects like:

History of Foulbrood in our country.

Recommendations for the application method of our product.

Hygienic behavior; bees have different mechanisms to clean themselves and the hive.

Importance of the consideration of bee anatomy in our project.

CIAD visit (Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo A.C.) and direct interaction with bees

In CIAD they have worked in investigations with Paenibacillus larvae and Melissococcus plutonius; they gave us advice on how to manage the in vitro growth.

Restrictions implicated in European Union’s honey importation.

We had the opportunity to interact with beehives, get to know how beekeepers work with them and how they feed them.

We discussed the bioethical aspect of working with bees in the laboratory.

June 15^th

June 15^th

Meeting with Ing. Alejandro Bianchi in Queretaro city

Discussion of aspects like:

Different treatments against bee diseases and their application methods.

Relevance and necessity of the increase of bee defenses

Training Day

This Training Day helped us discover the 5 key steps to develop a business in the biotech area.

June 15^th

June 27^th

Meeting with MVZ Ernesto Tanús Sánchez, Delegado Estatal de SAGARPA Chihuahua, Jose Luis

In this reunion we had the opportunity to present our project plus getting counseling about some parts of the bee anatomy. We could also discuss some aspects like:

Difficulties and impediments regarding governmental legislations related to bees.

How to ensure the peptides have arrived at the larva?

Valencia validation questionnaire

Thanks to our colleagues from Valencia_UPV, we received written feedback from a Valencian beekeeper and information about the current status of foulbrood in his province.

July 16^th

July 17^th

Videoconference with con MVZ Juan Diego Pérez de la Rosa; SENASICA (Servicio Nacional de Sanidad, Inocuidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria) chief department

We had the opportunity to present our project plus getting the subsequent feedback on it.

Videoconference with Lorenzo Della Morte (Italian Beekeepers Association)

We had the opportunity of sharing two funamental aspects of the project:

Presentation of the project and the subsequent feedback on it.

Questionnare to evaluate Foulbrood presence in Italy and its implications.

July 19^th

July 27^th

IV State Apicultural Forum

We were able to interact and present our project to approximately 300 beekeepers!

Presentation of our project.

Presentation of a synthetic biology poster.

Survey application to beekeepers.

Conferences about the honey market, defense mechanisms of bees, pollination, etc.

Interaction with different specialists regarding innocuousness of the honey and commercialization of bee products.

Swearing of student groups

We joined the student group community representing iGEM and synthetic biology.

August 16^th

August 25^th

Videoconference with Ph.D. David De Jong

Discussion of aspects like:

Feedback on our project.

Evaluation of Foulbrood presence and project implications in Brazil.

Crucial data validation for the mathematical model.

Science Clubs Mexico 2018

Presentation of our project.

We joined forces with the club “The world of biotechnology”, conformed by approximately 20 students. Our team donated needed materials to follow protocols of genetic engineering and we acted as assistants. We also talked with students about our project, iGEM competition and synthetic biology.

August 29^th

GIANT JAMBOREE

October 24^th

It does not end here! The iGEM competition is just the beginning, AMPABEE has yet a long road to go.

MEXMUN

Development of the topic for the First Committee of Disarmament and International Security MEXMUN 2018.

October26^th

November 7^th

SAIBT Forum

Organization, participation, and diffusion of the event. Genetic manipulation topics will impact college students and at the same time, synthetic biology knowledge will be shared.

United Nations Biodiversity Conference

Collaboration in the traduction of the Environmental Risk Assessment Guide that will be presented in the Biodiversity Conference Egypt 2018

November 17^th

May 22^nd 2019

2019 International Beekeeping Congress

Guest pass to make diffusion of synthetic biology and share our project with international beekeepers.

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