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<h1 class="text-wall-heading">Human Practices Overview</h1> | <h1 class="text-wall-heading">Human Practices Overview</h1> | ||
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<p class="text-content">Encouraged by the rapid Life Sciences development in Lithuania and our team’s previous achievements, we decided that it was meaningful to share our experience with the younger generation. Visiting schools, inviting pupils to visit Vilnius University Life Sciences Center and introducing SynDrop to them helped us not only to reveal but also clarify our own attitude towards synthetic biology. The discussion that we have organised during the DNA Day’s celebration has become a great inspiration to search for a creative approach to implement our project’s idea and to make it more public-friendly. | <p class="text-content">Encouraged by the rapid Life Sciences development in Lithuania and our team’s previous achievements, we decided that it was meaningful to share our experience with the younger generation. Visiting schools, inviting pupils to visit Vilnius University Life Sciences Center and introducing SynDrop to them helped us not only to reveal but also clarify our own attitude towards synthetic biology. The discussion that we have organised during the DNA Day’s celebration has become a great inspiration to search for a creative approach to implement our project’s idea and to make it more public-friendly. | ||
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− | <h1>Passing on the Knowledge to the Younger Generation</h1> | + | <h1 id="Silver">Passing on the Knowledge to the Younger Generation</h1> |
<p>Excited by the possibilities synthetic biology has to offer, our team aimed to involve younger generation in this novel field of science by educating them in schools, during pupil-olympiads, and meetings of other societies.</p> | <p>Excited by the possibilities synthetic biology has to offer, our team aimed to involve younger generation in this novel field of science by educating them in schools, during pupil-olympiads, and meetings of other societies.</p> | ||
<p>Our team members continued the tradition of previous Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM teams and held lectures for students in different schools across the country. During these visits scholars had an opportunity to learn the main principles of synthetic biology and laboratory work bearing in mind SynDrop project as an example. Also, high-school students have visited our laboratory in Vilnius University Life Sciences Center and implemented their knowledge into practice, e.g. learning how to balance a centrifuge or using Burker camera in order to calculate cells.</p> | <p>Our team members continued the tradition of previous Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM teams and held lectures for students in different schools across the country. During these visits scholars had an opportunity to learn the main principles of synthetic biology and laboratory work bearing in mind SynDrop project as an example. Also, high-school students have visited our laboratory in Vilnius University Life Sciences Center and implemented their knowledge into practice, e.g. learning how to balance a centrifuge or using Burker camera in order to calculate cells.</p> | ||
− | <p>Additionally, we delegated our member Valentas to represent our team in organising the | + | <p>Additionally, we delegated our member Valentas to represent our team in organising the 51<sup>st</sup> LitBO (Lithuanian Biology Olympiad) and its bootcamp where students were preparing for the International Biology Olympiad. He was responsible for giving lectures about fundamental biological principles and synthetic biology, as well as planning experiments for students.</p> |
<p>Our instructor Auksė held a lecture for Turing School students (13-18 yrs. of age) who planned to become future inventors and leaders of the IT sector. She delineated the possibilities of synthetic biology, revealed future applications of CRISPR/Cas system, and most importantly described ways of how IT skills could be applied in bioinformatics and above mentioned fields.</p> | <p>Our instructor Auksė held a lecture for Turing School students (13-18 yrs. of age) who planned to become future inventors and leaders of the IT sector. She delineated the possibilities of synthetic biology, revealed future applications of CRISPR/Cas system, and most importantly described ways of how IT skills could be applied in bioinformatics and above mentioned fields.</p> | ||
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<h1>DNA Day's Celebration</h1> | <h1>DNA Day's Celebration</h1> | ||
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− | <p>Looking for new ideas and methods to educate school children and hear their thoughts on synthetic biology and our project, we found a spectacular occasion in the calendar. Our team organised an event marking the | + | <p>Looking for new ideas and methods to educate school children and hear their thoughts on synthetic biology and our project, we found a spectacular occasion in the calendar. Our team organised an event marking the 65<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the day in 1953 when James Watson and Francis Crick published paper in <dfn>Nature</dfn> about the structure of DNA. There could not have been a better occasion to teach scholars about synthetic cells and gene expression in non-cellular systems. Additionally, this day was never celebrated in Vilnius University Life Sciences Center before, thus our team settled to launch a new continuous tradition. |
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<p>The main attraction of the DNA Day was a number of interactive activities designed for curious schoolchildren of various Lithuanian schools. All activities introduced the main idea and concepts of our project as well as the Life Sciences Center itself as a place where significant research happens. Schoolchildren visited several departments of this Center: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Botany and Genetics, Department of Eukaryote Gene Engineering, Department of Bioinformatics, Sector of Microtechnologies, Department of Immunology and Cell Biology and Department of Protein-DNA Interactions. At first glance, Life Sciences Center looks a bit like a labyrinth, so in order to make this Day more fun and interesting for students, we set up orienteering competition. Through interactive activities we revealed why it was important to visit the abovemention departments, and how they were related to developing our project’s idea. Pupils were given some tasks and their answers led them to next points in another departments.</p> | <p>The main attraction of the DNA Day was a number of interactive activities designed for curious schoolchildren of various Lithuanian schools. All activities introduced the main idea and concepts of our project as well as the Life Sciences Center itself as a place where significant research happens. Schoolchildren visited several departments of this Center: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Botany and Genetics, Department of Eukaryote Gene Engineering, Department of Bioinformatics, Sector of Microtechnologies, Department of Immunology and Cell Biology and Department of Protein-DNA Interactions. At first glance, Life Sciences Center looks a bit like a labyrinth, so in order to make this Day more fun and interesting for students, we set up orienteering competition. Through interactive activities we revealed why it was important to visit the abovemention departments, and how they were related to developing our project’s idea. Pupils were given some tasks and their answers led them to next points in another departments.</p> | ||
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<p>Finally, we hope that the DNA Day’s celebration will become a pleasant yearly tradition in Vilnius University Life Sciences Center.</p> | <p>Finally, we hope that the DNA Day’s celebration will become a pleasant yearly tradition in Vilnius University Life Sciences Center.</p> | ||
− | <a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2018/b/b2/T--Vilnius-Lithuania--PDFleafletDNA.pdf"> | + | <a style="font-size:2.5em;display:block;text-align:center;color:#61afaa;" href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2018/b/b2/T--Vilnius-Lithuania--PDFleafletDNA.pdf"> |
Link to our leaflet of DNA day | Link to our leaflet of DNA day | ||
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− | <h1>BioHackathon</h1> | + | <h1 id="Integrated">BioHackathon</h1> |
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<P>Discussions with the stakeholders we had during the DNA Day celebration was a great inspiration to search for a creative approach to implement our idea and to make this year’s project more public-friendly. Representing various professional-fields, the participants of the discussion proved us that a multidisciplinary team nowadays is a key to success. This is why we decided to organize an event for people who face difficulties and lack a multidisciplinary team when trying to implement their scientific ideas.</P> | <P>Discussions with the stakeholders we had during the DNA Day celebration was a great inspiration to search for a creative approach to implement our idea and to make this year’s project more public-friendly. Representing various professional-fields, the participants of the discussion proved us that a multidisciplinary team nowadays is a key to success. This is why we decided to organize an event for people who face difficulties and lack a multidisciplinary team when trying to implement their scientific ideas.</P> | ||
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<p>Even though our BioHackathon was the very first Life Sciences Hackathon organised in Lithuania, a lively interest in this event became a perfect evidence that there was a great demand for more events of this type in Lithuania.</p> | <p>Even though our BioHackathon was the very first Life Sciences Hackathon organised in Lithuania, a lively interest in this event became a perfect evidence that there was a great demand for more events of this type in Lithuania.</p> | ||
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− | <a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2018/2/2a/T--Vilnius-Lithuania--PDFguidebook.pdf"> | + | <a style="font-size:2em;text-decoration:underline;color:#61afaa" href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2018/2/2a/T--Vilnius-Lithuania--PDFguidebook.pdf"> |
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+ | <a style="font-size:2em;text-decoration:underline;color:#61afaa" href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2018/6/68/T--Vilnius-Lithuania--Biohackathon%27s_budget_chart.xlsx"> | ||
+ | BioHackathon’s budget chart | ||
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<h1>Open Source Applications</h1> | <h1>Open Source Applications</h1> | ||
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<p>Due to the fact that programmes and tools were created in order to reduce the burden of scientists’ manual work, we share some open source applications for the iGEM community to use.</p> | <p>Due to the fact that programmes and tools were created in order to reduce the burden of scientists’ manual work, we share some open source applications for the iGEM community to use.</p> | ||
<p>ChromAutoGrapher"Kristina"</p> | <p>ChromAutoGrapher"Kristina"</p> | ||
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+ | <a style='text-decoration:underline' href='https://github.com/aurimas12/ChromAutoGrapher'>ChromAutoGrapher</a> | ||
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Team „VCS Practice“ has designed an application which automatically processes documents including the data of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). This application automatically generates standardised protocols for given HPLC assays by converting selected files from pdf to text format, as well as calculating Average value, Standard Deviation and Covariation (COV).</p> | Team „VCS Practice“ has designed an application which automatically processes documents including the data of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). This application automatically generates standardised protocols for given HPLC assays by converting selected files from pdf to text format, as well as calculating Average value, Standard Deviation and Covariation (COV).</p> | ||
<p>Data labelling game</p> | <p>Data labelling game</p> | ||
While creating this application, an idea of designing a game was chosen intentionally by team BPTI_import_TeamName. Scientists (“gamers”) can choose to open, for example, blood sample images and analyse blood cells there. As a result, the more certain findings they label there, the higher level is reached in this game. Also, all information about labelled findings is saved and used in order to enable the programme identify them itself. </p> | While creating this application, an idea of designing a game was chosen intentionally by team BPTI_import_TeamName. Scientists (“gamers”) can choose to open, for example, blood sample images and analyse blood cells there. As a result, the more certain findings they label there, the higher level is reached in this game. Also, all information about labelled findings is saved and used in order to enable the programme identify them itself. </p> | ||
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+ | <a style='text-decoration:underline' href='https://github.com/SimasB/from_BPTI_import_TeamName'>VPTI</a> | ||
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<p>Buffy the Bufferbot</p> | <p>Buffy the Bufferbot</p> | ||
Team Groningen designed operating system for Buffy - the buffer robot which is used while preparing solutions and reduction of pH value. This Bufferbot is able to keep track of buffer’s pH and reach the desired value avoiding human-made errors.</p> | Team Groningen designed operating system for Buffy - the buffer robot which is used while preparing solutions and reduction of pH value. This Bufferbot is able to keep track of buffer’s pH and reach the desired value avoiding human-made errors.</p> | ||
+ | <a style='text-decoration:underline' href='https://github.com/Ezmagon/buffy'>Buffy</a> | ||
Latest revision as of 20:52, 30 November 2018
Human Practices Overview
To See A Society
Encouraged by the rapid Life Sciences development in Lithuania and our team’s previous achievements, we decided that it was meaningful to share our experience with the younger generation. Visiting schools, inviting pupils to visit Vilnius University Life Sciences Center and introducing SynDrop to them helped us not only to reveal but also clarify our own attitude towards synthetic biology. The discussion that we have organised during the DNA Day’s celebration has become a great inspiration to search for a creative approach to implement our project’s idea and to make it more public-friendly.