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| − | March for science
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| − | Frankfurt May the 4th 2019
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| − | Without exaggeration, we as human society are currently on a slippery slope towards alt-facts society. In the
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| − | dire time of climate change, where strong data-based leadership are needed, we see many country leaders show the
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| − | opposite of what is needed. They bend, ignore, and, even worse, sabotage facts and effort to face inconvenient
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| − | truths. These leaders unfortunately are currently established thanks to the backing by significant part of
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| − | uninformed public. This feeds a perpetual cycle where government starts undermining their own scientific
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| − | departments and as consequences public will distrust scientific research and progress. All of this happen simply
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| − | because of the inconveniences meaningful and verified results create. We as fledging scientists at iGEM Marburg
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| − | feel the need to express our opposition against this destructive behavior.
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| − | Origin of the march of science and Marburg’s involvement
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| − | The March for Science is a protest march started in 2017 in Washington D.C. against the suppression of science
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| − | and research. More than one million people participated in the first march 2017 that took place in cities all
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| − | over the world. We at iGEM Marburg have joined this coalition and in 2019 we continue this tradition by joining
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| − | 200 other people in Frankfurt edition of the march on 4th of May 2019. The importance of this movement is
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| − | further justified with opening speech from Angela Dorn, minister of art and science of Hessian state.
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| − | Why we do it and the impact of our action
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| − | We understand as an iGEM team that our present and future work will help shaping society. Thus, we always
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| − | constantly consider whether our projects are responsible and good for the world. The science march presents not
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| − | only a chance to solidify our stance against post-truthism, but also an opportunity to engage with general
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| − | public about our research and iGEM. Our team members got into conversation about iGEM and potential application
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| − | of genetic engineering with other fellow marchers; exchanging about concerns and considerations with them. This
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| − | has helped us creating a project that is responsible and good for the world.
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| − | Hessentag 2019
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| − | For this year’s Hessentag we went to Bad Hersfeld to represent our iGEM project and the SYNMIKRO
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| − | of the Philipps-University of Marburg. 862.000 people joined the Hessentag 2019. This makes the
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| − | Hessentag to the biggest event in Hessen where many different topics are represented, like art,
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| − | music, sports, animal welfare, nature or science. Under the motto „Hessen schafft Wissen“ (eng.:
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| − | Hesse creates knowledge), we introduced children and other interested people to scientific
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| − | experiments and the basics of (synthetic) biology. This project was supported by LOEWE, the state
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| − | research field of Hessen.
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| − | We taught how to read the genetic code, how to do microscopy, had a little puzzle to solve, showed
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| − | pH indication at the example of red cabbage and extracted DNA out of pepper.
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| − | On the first day we shared our area with an informatic-engineering group of Darmstadt. Luckily on
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| − | the second day we had the stage for ourselves. Due to the great weather a huge amount of people
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| − | stopped at our location to listen attentively to the molecular background of our experiments.
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| − | Also on the second day, the very famous moderator Willi Weitzel from Germanys TV show „Willi wills
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| − | wissen“ visited our stand and extracted the DNA out of pepper, successfully.
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| − | We gained great feedback not only from the kids but also from their parents who looked sometimes
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| − | more amazed than their children.
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| − | Many thanks to Tanja Desch who organized the stand for us including all that’s part of it.
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