Team:USP-EEL-Brazil/Human Practices

Before you continue reading our Human Pratice section, we strongly recommend you to know more about Synthetic Biology Club from EEL-USP, then you can know us better and identify yourself with the mission, values and purpose wich guides us!

Synthetic Biology Week

EEL-USP is a engineering university wich has the following graduating categories: environmental engineering, chemitry engineering, biochemistry/biochemical engineering, physics engineering, material engineering and production engineering. Inside the University, CBSin is a student entity shaped mostly by biochemical engineering students, that is why members from CBSin have difficulties to transmit synthetic biology knowledge as a multidisciplinary science. So members from CBSin organized to create an entire week dedicated to disseminate several subjects related with Synthetic Biology. During the Synthetic Biology week, our entity broght several professors, researchers and youngs entrepreneurs from others Brazilian universities to speak about Synthetic Biology, entrepreneurship, the maker movement (wich is a DIY growing movement from Brazil) and its importance for a society in constant changes. We aimed to show the University community (students and teachers) our work and mission!

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The Children’s Yogurt Day

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According to World Health Organization, osteoporosis affects approximately Ten millions of brazilians, mainly related with calcium deficiency and ageing, and so the CBSIN made The Children’s Yogurt Day. Yogurt is originated from the milk fermentation and is known by its properties: Yogurt is rich in vitamins, minerals (mainly calcium), proteins, helps to lose weight, natural probiotic and can be easily used in a large range of culinary. Everybody know that children has a big persuasive power, that is why CBSIN went to UNIFATEA (Centro Universitário Teresa D'Ávila) in order to teach children from different ages how to make a delicious homemade yogurt in a simple way, broadening some concepts of biology and talking about the importance of bacterias and microorganisms in ours lives. Through this project we were aiming to propose a food education, instigate that children convince their parents to have healthier habits, we tried to instigate their curiosity and introduced them the concept of Synthetic Biology.

Its simple, yogurt, sugar and bacteria, what could go wrong.

Do it yourself, even kids can do it right?

OK,now to the next step is... Oh, you want to do it too? ok!?

Mayday, Mayday, everyone wants to do it. Someone HELP!!!

Now, how about we end this day planting some seeds. 'Hey kids, who have heard about Synthetic Biology???'

A exciting day for us and the future scientists, nothing is better than learning while having fun.

Partnership with AIESEC

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"AIESEC is a global platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential. They are a non-political, independent, not-for-profit organization run by students and recent graduates of institutions of higher education. Its members are interested in world issues, leadership and management. AIESEC does not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion or national / social origin.''-AIESEC Official Website.

Aknowledging that AIESEC has similar values, mission and purpose, we decided to make a partnership with them. CBSIN requested AIESEC to give us the opportunity to participate in a class of children they teach, in order to introduce them some scientific experiments. AIESEC has a recognized work with low-income family, so most part of those kid are poor, thus they have to overcome a lot obstacles in order to get access to school, education and others basic social rights. During the winter holidays, we dedicated some days to teach and demostrate some concepts of chemistry and biology. The kids had experienced how to make a sodium bicarbonate and vinegar volcano, how to measure ph with red cabbage, they learned what is DNA and how to extract it from fruits; and they learned how to fill ballon with vinegar and sodium bicarbonate. Our partnership with AIESEC aim to approach science to children and instigate their curiosity for sciences!

Contraceptive Awareness

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The feminist movement Enedina Alves Marques from EEL-USP, is a student entity that aims to discuss and fight for women's rights inside and out of the university. The movement strives for women to stop being victims of various forms of social oppression and bring more fair structures to society. During project development, we learned the dangers of using contraceptive pills without the knowledge of its sides-effects. So we connected, throught datas and statistcs its relation and the increase incidence of some disease as venous thrombosis, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, varicose vein and others. Then, CBSIN made an event with Enedina Alves Marques entity in order to discuss and awareness women and men to about some topics releated with contraceptive pills. We focused in talking about health, importance of consulting doctors before using medications and we invited specialists to talk about others anticonceptive ways.

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