Team:Saint Joseph/Human Practices

Human Practices

Integrated Human Practices

• Overlook:

  One of the subjects that we probably spent most of our time on while . getting prepared to IGEM competition was "finding a project idea which is useful and effective". We brainstormed various ideas about the project and created a shortlist of ideas among our team. We presented this ideas to Prof. Şule Arı and she motivated us to work on laccase enzyme. Based on our exploration on scientific articles, we decided to research the idea to increase efficiency of laccase enzyme by using it in textile industry for cleaning dyed water and recycling back to be used in the manufacturing again. Obviously it was not just only enough for our team members to like the idea. For this project to be valuable to the community, it has to attract attention of the public. So, we conducted an online survey to measure and understand awareness on synthetic biology and how our project idea was perceived in our school, also we did a presentation to 9th graders. We asked questions about synthetic biology and cleaning of the contaminated water in textile factories with biological methods on our survey. Our survey was answered around 700 students and as a result we got the feedback from students that they are in favour of cleaning contaminated water with biological methods opposed to chemical methods. As a result, our project idea was confirmed by our communities’ feedback

  Raising awareness about synthetic biology is gaining importance with the fact that it is developing and its field is getting larger. When the knowledge of synthetic biology raises in societies, individuals begin to form ideas about it and a public opinion gets created. This also applies to our project. The purification and reuse of the wastewater of textile industries does not only concern the people of this industry, it also concerns the society. If the wastewater of textile industries gets thrown to nature without purification, this would cause a real threat to natural water resources, environment, humans and animals. We discussed our project, designed as a solution to this problem with professionals and with the ones who might be interested, in the goal of describing our project better to the society and raising awareness.

• Our goal:

  • 1. To make the wastewater of textile industries the cleanest by biological ways (laccase enzyme).
  • 2. To reuse the water which is purified by biological ways in textile industries.
  • 3. To clean the wastewater of textile industries with the cheapest way.
  • 4. To raise awareness about wastewater, synthetic biology and biotechnology.

• Our Engagements:

  Since we are high school students, throughout our project we have been aware of how important it was to explain people about our studies properly. We orginised some special activities. Click on each kid on the image to learn about our activities.

  

  On Friday, August 2, we visited the İSKİ (İstanbul Water and Sewerage Department) waste water department. Read more about our ISKI Visit

  On March 30, we visited Oyak Renault Automobile Factory. The goal of this visit was to present our idea of using enzyme, laccase, to clean the wastewater of automobile factories. Read more about our Renault Visit

  As IGEM club, we organised a waffle day in our school on April 25, DNA day. Read more about our Waffle Day

  We visited Little Prince Schools which was established by our graduates. Our goal was to present IGEM competition, our project, synthetic biology, biotechnology and wastewater concept. Read more about our LPS Visit

  We made a presentation to our director, our assistants director and our science department's teachers explaining how we prepared for the IGEM competition. Read more

  We made a presentation on IGEM for 9th grade (15-16 ages) in our school. In our presentation we briefly talked about what is IGEM competition and explained our own project “Lakecase”. Read more

  When we watched the trailer of the River Blue, we saw that movie was about the contamination of the rivers with textile water, just our project's scope. We get in contact with the movie's director Roger Williams. Read more about our River Blue experience

  This year, a new sythetic biology laboratory is established in our school. Read more about our new Biology Lab

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