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Expert talks & Conference

Throughout the competition we visited various experts to deepen our knowledge in different themes related to our project. In this way we were able to improve and adjust our project approach by adopting the specialists´ advices.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Jockenhövel - ITA at RWTH Aachen

We thank professor Jockenhövel for the very interesting and revealing expert discussion about tissue engineering at the ITA in Aachen. This expert discussion gave us the insight that most currently used plastics in medical applications (for example PLA) are degraded acidic in the body. In this point our polymer has an advantage.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Phillip Urban - 3D Printing Technology IGD Fraunhofer

The expert talk with Dr. Urban gave us a good overview about 3D printing technologies. Our used method SLA 3D printing is currently maket-leading and can be improved by the similar method Polymer-Jetting.

 

Dr. Harald König, Reinhard Heil, Christoph Schneider - ITAS KIT Karlsruhe

The three experts at ITAS helped us bring forward our application scenario with a very interesting talk analyzing our project's usage. We thank them for spending so much time in our discussion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Chichkov - LZH Laserzentrum Hannover

Dr. Chichkov is working with Two-Photon Polymerisation that is even more precise than SLA 3D printing. We thank him for his offer to test our polymer with his devices and for the backround information about alternative photo initiators.

Prof. Michael Grätzel, Toby Meyer - EPFL Lausanne

Prof. Dr. Grätzel - Old memories come in mind: Visiting professor Grätzel and Toby Meyer once again to thank them for their support at our last year´s project. They wished us success, as we just them best for the future! Hopefully we will meet again!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conference: Community labs and synthetic biology

In 2012 our team held a public panel discussion about bioethics. Moreover in the last years we had a lot of debates about the future of synthetic biology and the chances and risks of community labs, during our work for Synenergene and the german iGEM meetups. Since a new biohackerspace is forming in Darmstadt, with close connections to our team, we decided to lead a panel discussion about these two topics. As a first step we had a round table discussion with the iGEM team of RWTH Aachen. Here we talked about the pros, cons and possible trends of community labs (please visit the wiki of RWTH Aachen for further details and results). This formed the fundament for our panel discussion.

The panel discussion

We had several experts for the discussion, which was divided in two subtopics. The discussion was moderated by members of our team while the audience was allowed to ask questions and become thereby an important part of the controversy/debate. The investigated questions lead to interesting results that gave our team new views on the prior executed researches as well as on possible future planned projects.

 

Discussion 1: The future of synthetic Biology

• Prof. Dr. Heribert Warzecha, professor for plant biotechnology (TU Darmstadt)
• Dr. Harald König, biologist on the Institute for technical aftermath (KIT Karlsruhe)
• M.A. Reinhard Heil, philosopher on the Institute for technical aftermath (KIT Karlsruhe)

 

Discussion 2: Risks and chances of community labs

• Prof. Dr. Alfred Nordmann, professor for philosophy of technology (TU Darmstadt)
• Kai Ruf, founder of the biohackerspace lab3

 

Results discussion 1

Forecast

Within the next five to ten years synthetic biology will not change our life or our society completely. This scenario is mostly envisioned by some American scientists whose companies need big investments. Thus they have a crucial interest in the upkeep of “radical visions”. It will take much more time and development till synthetic biology could have such a big impact on society like computers, the internet etc.

Acceptance

Until now the socio-cultural advantage of synthetic biology is the possibility of lower production costs for already existing products. If somebody had to choose between two similar products he would not select the one manufactured with synthetic biology, except the price difference is significant. The only chance to increase the acceptance is to provide additional products which cannot be made without synthetic biology. The consumer can see directly the benefit for his life and thus the benefit of synthetic biology.