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                   <h6 style="text-align: center !important;">One of our main concerns was to demonstrate the relation between art and life sciences through the use of living cells as part of Bio Art creations </h6>
 
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                   <h6 style="text-align: center !important;">High school talks were carried out to promote SynBio divulgation and so fighting against misinformation about genetic engineering, GMOs, etc.</h6>
 
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                   <h6 style="text-align: center !important;">As part of the European Research Night, we did an open talk about SynBio and Printeria future applications to a public from all ages</h6>
 
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                   <h6 style="text-align: center !important;">As part of the Design Factory Exhibition, we had the chance to talk and show Printeria to all our university community </h6>
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                   <p>When explaining Printeria to people, we see they are reticent to use it because of the genetically modified bacteria that we do. A part of our project is to fight the stigma against Synthetic Biology and Harvard was claiming for teams disposed to do so.&nbsp;</p>
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                   <p> Synthetic Biology achievements and challenges have only real sense taking into account the effect it has on the improvement of nowadays issues. However, it is also one of the most <b>controversial </b> scientific fields for <b>the public opinion. </b> </p> <p>Generally, the presence of <b>misconceptions</b> in regard to genetic engineering makes it difficult to reach to the <b> general public </b>. Moreover, access to SynBio is currently hampered by several barriers, such as the extensive background knowledge. </p>
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<p> Thus, with Printeria we want to break the social and technological barriers that prevent people from coming into Synthetic Biology. In this context, our <b>Education and Public Engagement </b> work has the aim of divulgating SynBio through different social targets, so that misinformation is beated in favour of the critical thinking. </p>
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                  <p> Their collaboration was about doing a report of our project to create a series of newsletters and articles to show how we are using bacteria and demonstrate that we are doing it taking into account demanding security measures.&nbsp;</p>
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                   <p><a href="https://2018.igem.org/Team:Ecuador" target="blank">Ecuador iGEM team</a> has been working on the development of a new biomaterial to speed up the healing in bone injures. This biomaterial called (C-lastine), is based on the cross-linking of bacterial cellulose and Elastin-like polypeptides. This cross-linking is mediated by a carbohydrate binding domain and a BMP2 protein (an osteoblasts differentiation inducer). To achieve this objective they are using E.Coli as a biofactory, specifically C41 strain which is resistant to Cellulose synthase operon protein D, codified by gene bcsD and responsible of pore formation in the membrane allowing cellulose to exit the cell. The final result is a bandage matrix that can be applied to the wound during a surgical intervention.</p>
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<i>“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
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                   <p> If we think about it, Printeria is a kind of biofactory so, we thought that trying to make Ecuadorís biomaterial in Printeria would be a good trial to show that Printeria is ready to become something greater in the biotechnological industry and why not, it could be used in hospitals as well. However, due to the fact that there were problems with the size of the parts for Golden Gate and with the customs, it could not become a reality. This idea would be developed with Imperial College. Instead, we did several things.</p>
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                   <p>We did a survey to get some feedback from the potential users of both projects. It consisted in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITVeAXSsO5k" style="padding-right: 0;" target="blank">video</a> in spanish and then a survey to fill out.In our case, the survey was made to know what users  thought about Printeria and Synthetic Biology. In no case this surveys represents the collective of users (only 15 people were surveyed) it was just made to have an idea.</p>
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        <p> The activity took place in the Mustang Art Gallery (Elche), a cultural space dedicated to the diffusion of contemporary art. This workshop involved last year high school students of arts, science and social sciences, so we could interact with a wide range of different profiles. </p>
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                   <p>In this activity, they created their own <b>‘living masterpice’</b>. Previously, we did detailed explanation on how to properly use the lab material and cells during simple microbiology protocols such as plating.  
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                   <p>Do you know that there is something that grows faster than a Bacteria? If it grows faster...Why not use it as a chassis to do pharmaceuticals and chemicals? This is the fantastic idea that Marburg team has developed. They want to demonstrate that working with V.Natriegens is cheaper, faster and possible with todayís methods.&nbsp;</p>
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                   <p>High school students are eager to know more about the world they live in. However, students rarely learn about Synthetic Biology inside classrooms. As there is a lack of hand-on STEM curricula, basic concepts such as gene, DNA and bacteria are only explained theoretically.
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                   <p> Initially, they requested us to do the interlab study with V.Natriegens and to annotate how fast V.Natriegens grows but this gave us a really good idea. Why don't we try to use V.Natriegens in Printeria? If all goes well, it would mean that Printeria is ready to work with other organisms, not only E.coli.&nbsp;</p>
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One of our main concerns was to demonstrate the relation between art and life sciences through the use of living cells as part of Bio Art creations
High school talks were carried out to promote SynBio divulgation and so fighting against misinformation about genetic engineering, GMOs, etc.
As part of the European Research Night, we did an open talk about SynBio and Printeria future applications to a public from all ages
As part of the Design Factory Exhibition, we had the chance to talk and show Printeria to all our university community

Overview

Synthetic Biology achievements and challenges have only real sense taking into account the effect it has on the improvement of nowadays issues. However, it is also one of the most controversial scientific fields for the public opinion.

Generally, the presence of misconceptions in regard to genetic engineering makes it difficult to reach to the general public . Moreover, access to SynBio is currently hampered by several barriers, such as the extensive background knowledge.

Thus, with Printeria we want to break the social and technological barriers that prevent people from coming into Synthetic Biology. In this context, our Education and Public Engagement work has the aim of divulgating SynBio through different social targets, so that misinformation is beated in favour of the critical thinking.

Bio Art: living masterpieces

“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” - Leonardo da Vinci

Art exists since the origins of humanity. Likewise, science has always been prompted by a desire of knowing more and more about the world, the nature and life.

One of our main concerns is to demonstrate the existant synergy between art and life sciences. This is nowadays called Bio Art: a contemporary art form that adapts scientific methods and biotechnology to explore living systems as artistic subjects (1).

Activity: Bioartists for one day

How to attract people to SynBio? It is possible to achieve this challenge in a subjective and eye-appealing way? We thought it could be possible, so we designed the didactic practical session ‘Bioartist for one day’.

The activity took place in the Mustang Art Gallery (Elche), a cultural space dedicated to the diffusion of contemporary art. This workshop involved last year high school students of arts, science and social sciences, so we could interact with a wide range of different profiles.

In this activity, they created their own ‘living masterpice’. Previously, we did detailed explanation on how to properly use the lab material and cells during simple microbiology protocols such as plating. Then, using solid agar plates as a canvas, inoculating loops as brushes and a palette of pigmented bacteria we self-made in the lab as tempera, they blew their minds to do imaginative Microbial Art. As soon as they finished, petri dishes were collected, kept and sealed for a later incubation in our lab. Finally, a gallery of all their artistic works was published in an Integram account, so everyone could share it and so create interest into bacterial art.

We also thought that, in the network era, students could be a great help in the promotion of SynBio by simple talking about their experiences, so we created the Instagram hashtag #MAGPRINTERIA to encourage them to share their own pics and impressions during the activity.

Future generations

High school students are eager to know more about the world they live in. However, students rarely learn about Synthetic Biology inside classrooms. As there is a lack of hand-on STEM curricula, basic concepts such as gene, DNA and bacteria are only explained theoretically. In order to stimulate young people to be curious about science and to promote the critical thinking on scientific foundations, we believe this educational approach needs to be changed.

Activity

To do so, we gave some talks to several high school classes, in which we talked about:

  • iGEM and SynBio as a multidisciplinary research field

    We talked about the iGEM competition and the future of SynBio as a research field that can help to solve nowadays issues.

  • Bacteria: enemies or friends?

    We wanted to beat the stigma against bacteria, explaining their importance and benefits, not only naturally (i.e.: they form our microbiote and they are the base of the trophic chains), but also in biotechnology (i.e.: bacteria as biofactories for medicine, industry, etc.)

  • Printeria: how it really works?

    As SynBio is not only about biology, we thought it was also highly important to demonstrate the role of engineering and electronics. Thus, we decided to explain them, from an educational approch, the basis of Printeria: our software and how the digital microfluidic system allows us to control each biotech process with high accuracy. During the talk, we showed them several videos and photos to ease each explanation and to ensure studens could understand such kind of a priori complex concepts.

European Research Night

The European Research Night is a wide-public event, promoted under the EU Programme Horizon 2020, whose objective is to to encourage the scientific/technical youth vocations and lay public interest to science. It involves research organizations, science museums and public organizations all around Europe.

Activity

As part of this event the City of Arts and Science, one of the biggest scientific and cultural leisure complexes in Europe, organized a complete program of free access activities, including interactive experiments, scientific monologues and researchers talks. We were invited to be part of this program to present Printeria to a wide range of interested people from all ages, who listened our speech with great interest.

UPV Welcome Fest

UPV_iGEM is part of the Design Factory Global Network. This is a network of universities innovation hubs all around the world, whose mission is to create change in the world of learning through passion-based culture and effective problem solving.

Activity

As part of the UPV Welcome Fest, a Design Factory Exhibition was organized in order to explain the diversity of projects being carried out by the Design Factory teams. There, we had the chance to show Printeria to all the university community and to explain the basic concepts of SynBio to those who didn't know about it.

CONTACT US igem.upv.2018@gmail.com