Our team seeks to synthesize membrane-less organelles and turn it into a multi-functional toolbox for synthetic biology based on basic phase separation principles, which is a rather fundamental field in condensed matter physics. Therefore, it’s not really a reality application so far. Nonetheless, it’s definitely not the reason that we are confined in the laboratory coping with experiments and mathematical models without making a difference to the society directly. Meanwhile, we need to get to know about the demand of engineers and consumers. Thus we did an integrated human practice in several different ways.
Inside the iGEM community, we made statistics of the education background and numbers of igemers each year in order to investigate how iGEM has been broadcasted internationally and how the field of synthetic biology has changed over the last 14 years. We noticed that most iGEM teams are becoming more and more diverse, which promotes the development of iGEM community but make it more challenging for team members to communicate. This can also be read as more people from different disciplines especially mathematics and physics have been devoted to systems and synthetic biology, which are interdisciplinary sciences needing various knowledge while on the same time, they can feed back to enrich the individual scientific disciplines and biology-based solutions for societal problems can be worked out.
We also tried to play an active part in public engagement. We communicated with people from various backgrounds in universities, high schools, kindergartens and on the internet. We realized that there has always been a gap between the achievements in scientific research and reality application. People from academic world and industrial world barely know each others’ requirements most of the time. Thus we discussed this topic in detail using fluorescence microscope as an example.
Our human practice reinforced our team construction creating more chance for the team members to communicate and collaborate with each other. We tried to make synthetic biology accessible for as many people as possible and we do expect our efforts may make a difference. Meanwhile, we’d be more than glad if our work may give the synthetic biology community some inspiration. To gain a deeper understanding of biology in the 21st century, we need to integrate knowledge from various disciplines while biology-based solutions to societal problems can influence the world more profoundly.
In the following sections, you will go through our human practice in details.
Investigation on the education background of iGEMers
Our human practice reinforced our team construction creating more chance for the team members to communicate and collaborate with each other. We tried to make synthetic biology accessible for as many people as possible and we do expect our efforts may make a difference. Meanwhile, we’d be more than glad if our work may give the synthetic biology community some inspiration. To gain a deeper understanding of biology in the 21st century, we need to integrate knowledge from various disciplines while biology-based solutions to societal problems can influence the world more profoundly.
Our human practice reinforced our team construction creating more chance for the team members to communicate and collaborate with each other. We tried to make synthetic biology accessible for as many people as possible and we do expect our efforts may make a difference. Meanwhile, we’d be more than glad if our work may give the synthetic biology community some inspiration. To gain a deeper understanding of biology in the 21st century, we need to integrate knowledge from various disciplines while biology-based solutions to societal problems can influence the world more profoundly.
Our human practice reinforced our team construction creating more chance for the team members to communicate and collaborate with each other. We tried to make synthetic biology accessible for as many people as possible and we do expect our efforts may make a difference. Meanwhile, we’d be more than glad if our work may give the synthetic biology community some inspiration. To gain a deeper understanding of biology in the 21st century, we need to integrate knowledge from various disciplines while biology-based solutions to societal problems can influence the world more profoundly.
Our human practice reinforced our team construction creating more chance for the team members to communicate and collaborate with each other. We tried to make synthetic biology accessible for as many people as possible and we do expect our efforts may make a difference. Meanwhile, we’d be more than glad if our work may give the synthetic biology community some inspiration. To gain a deeper understanding of biology in the 21st century, we need to integrate knowledge from various disciplines while biology-based solutions to societal problems can influence the world more profoundly.
Our human practice reinforced our team construction creating more chance for the team members to communicate and collaborate with each other. We tried to make synthetic biology accessible for as many people as possible and we do expect our efforts may make a difference. Meanwhile, we’d be more than glad if our work may give the synthetic biology community some inspiration. To gain a deeper understanding of biology in the 21st century, we need to integrate knowledge from various disciplines while biology-based solutions to societal problems can influence the world more profoundly.
Our human practice reinforced our team construction creating more chance for the team members to communicate and collaborate with each other. We tried to make synthetic biology accessible for as many people as possible and we do expect our efforts may make a difference. Meanwhile, we’d be more than glad if our work may give the synthetic biology community some inspiration. To gain a deeper understanding of biology in the 21st century, we need to integrate knowledge from various disciplines while biology-based solutions to societal problems can influence the world more profoundly.
Our human practice reinforced our team construction creating more chance for the team members to communicate and collaborate with each other. We tried to make synthetic biology accessible for as many people as possible and we do expect our efforts may make a difference. Meanwhile, we’d be more than glad if our work may give the synthetic biology community some inspiration. To gain a deeper understanding of biology in the 21st century, we need to integrate knowledge from various disciplines while biology-based solutions to societal problems can influence the world more profoundly.
Our human practice reinforced our team construction creating more chance for the team members to communicate and collaborate with each other. We tried to make synthetic biology accessible for as many people as possible and we do expect our efforts may make a difference. Meanwhile, we’d be more than glad if our work may give the synthetic biology community some inspiration. To gain a deeper understanding of biology in the 21st century, we need to integrate knowledge from various disciplines while biology-based solutions to societal problems can influence the world more profoundly.
In the following sections, you will go through our human practice in details.