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Meetings
The Federal University of São Carlos received the 4biotec event (Four days of Biotechnology) between the 4th and 7th of August this year, arranged by the junior company of the biotechnology course “Consultoria & Soluções em Biotecnologia Jr”.
Jamboré
On July 18th, three Brazilian teams that would attend Giant Jamboree for iGEM 2015 assembled at Universidade de Sao Paulo, Campus São Carlos. The event was organized by Brazil-USP team, and was played by stream. The teams Brasil-USP, UFSCar-Brasil and UFMG-Brasil presented their projects. Besides our Bug-Shoo project, team Brasil-USP presented RubberBye, where E. coli bacteria is modified to degrade rubber. Team UFMG-Brazil presented LeishMANIA, which proposes engineering the protozoan Leishmania to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Common problems for all teams such as difficulties in obtaining sponsorship and bureaucratic issues that hampered the importation of biological material have been discussed (Wiki link).
The meeting also was attended by a representative of the iGEM Foundation, Ana Sifuentes. She addressed aspects of the competition, related problems commonly faced by Latin American teams (lack of sponsorship and bureaucratic issues, mostly) and clarified our doubts on these subjects. There was also a brief presentation on the importance of mathematical modeling.
Finally, there was a round table discussion on Synthetic Biology challenges, biosafety and biosecurity issues with Dr. Paul Lacava and Dr. Francis Nunes, both UFSCar Professors, and Ana Sifuentes.
Jamboré was the first opportunity to discuss our project and submit it to critical review, which allowed us to expand our vision and suit it to the Giant Jamboree.Our amazing sponsors!
Our amazing sponsors!
