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Revision as of 09:28, 27 July 2015
School Visits
As a part of our public outreach we visited two Highschools in Austria, BRG Kepler in Graz and HLW Deutschlandsberg, to talk about Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology and our iGEM project.
To make sure the students (most of them 17 or 18 years old) knew what we were going to talk about we started our presentation with a short explanation of DNA, genes, transcription and translation followed by the principles of plasmids, cloning and their use for BioTech and SynBio. That theory was also illustrated by several examples of how those two research fields are a substantial part of our everyday life, even if we might not always be aware of it. Thereafter we took time to answer questions arising from our audience regarding that topics as well as biotechnology programs at university.
After all that talking the students got a chance to get their hands right onto the topic and isolated DNA from strawberries. The surprise was huge by the amount of slimy mass consisting of DNA and proteins they could isolate from a small amount of strawberry and even take their results home in micro centrifuge tubes.
