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Life in the Lab

  • UBC iGEM 2011

Audience

  • High school students

Plan

A) Meeting One: (Biology/Biotechnology classes)

[Ready-to-use Presentation: http://prezi.com/bqt1cvldirvh/exploring-synthetic-biology-part-1/]

  1. Explain our reason for coming in and talking to the class
  2. Introduce the team and iGEM competition
  3. Ask some questions to the class (What interests you about biology? If you could create an organism to do anything you want, what would you make? etc.)
  4. Introduction to Synthetic Biology
    • What is synbio?
    • Why is it a relatively new field?
    • Biobricks – what they are and why they’re useful
    • Other resources (Journals, Scitables, etc)
  5. Talk about the High School division of the iGEM competition
  6. Talk about creating a biotechnology journal club that could turn into an iGEM team

B) Meeting Two:

  1. Cornell University’s Ethics in SynBio Lesson Plan
    • Add in Colbert Report Interview - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as a multimedia aspect of the presentation [1]
  2. Intro to the iGEM website, Parts Registry, and OWW
  3. Lab Safety in SynBio

Experience

Will be updated after each workshop in September and October 2011!

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