Team:Heidelberg/Stream

Synthetic biology - Bricks for a healthy life?

We, the iGEM Team Heidelberg 2015 hereby invite you to our discussion regarding the topic, if and how synthetic biology should influence modern health and life in general.

We have made it our goal to inform society about the possibilities that synthetic biology has to offer for modern medicine. In order to give a stage for the questions this might raise, we organised a discussion about the topic 'Synthetic biology - Bricks for a healthy life?' (german: 'Synthetische Biologie - Bausteine für ein gesundes Leben?'). We invited multiple representatives of different fields of todays society to discuss about that. Amongst them are doctors, politicians, scientists, philosophers ... and YOU! .

In windows below you can on the one hand watch a life stream of our discussion - translated into english in realtime and contribute to our discussion by asking questions via Twitter. In order to do so, you just need to tweet your questions with the hashtag '#askigemheidelberg' and they will show up for us. As members of the team will be moderating the evening, we'll try to forward your questions to our speakers, so you can have them answered. In case we won't be able to answer your questions live, we'll answer them later on via text.

Life Stream of the Discussion

For the wiki freeze we had to remove the player for the stream as it was using Flash and our Twitter life feed as it loads data from an external source.

Prof. Dr. Axel Bauer

  • Professor for history, theory and ethics of medicine, University Mannheim
  • Since 2013: Member of the Heinrich-Lanz-Center for personalized medicine
  • 2008 - 2012: Member of the german ethics council
  • 2004 - 2010: Founder and chairman of the clinical ethics-commitee of the University Mannheim

PD Dr. Joachim Boldt

  • Associate professor at the institute for ethics and history of medicine, Uni Freiburg
  • Since 2010: Alternate director of institute for ethics and history of medicine, Uni Freiburg
  • 2009: Assessor for the national ethics commitee of denmark reagrding ethical questions of therapeutical neuroenhancments
  • 2008: Assessor for the german ethics commitee for ethical implications of synthetic biology

Dr. Stephan Brandt

  • Chairman of the department for biotechnological innovation, nanotechnology and genetic engineering
  • Until 2009: Group leader at the TU Darmstadt
  • Works on a law for genetic engineering
  • Studied biology

Dr. Dirk Grimm

  • Group leader of the department for 'Virus-Host interactions' at the BioQuant Heidelberg
  • 2001 - 2007: School of Medicine, Stanford, USA
  • Works on development of novel clinical modalities based on AAV/RNAi for the treatment and prevention of virus infections

Dr. Harald Koenig

  • Works at the ITAS
  • Group leader of the department for 'Toxicology and genetic', Karlsruhe
  • Participated in governmental evaluations of the influence of new technological
  • Organized the SYNERGENE

Prof. Dr. Nicole Marme