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Revision as of 03:49, 22 October 2009

University of Calgary

UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY



HUMAN PRACTICES UPDATES
Every Friday (started at the end of June), our outreach and ethics teams use our Synthetic BLOGology blog to update both the public and the rest of the team of their progress in both regards. Fridays are also a special day for any other extra updates team members would like to share. For more details regarding Synthetic BLOGology, please click HERE.

INDEX OF UPDATES

WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO IN OUTREACH & ETHICS:
These updates have been posted with newest ones at the top.




July 24, 2009 - Stefan
SynthETHICS
Hello, Stefan here. Second Lifer extraordinaire and now official iGEM ethicist. You might be wondering what’s been going on in our Ethics department. Well, you’re in luck, because I’m about to tell you! Mandy, Emily, Fahd and I have been keeping busy by reading a few papers on synthetic biology. These include papers about the economics of synthetic biology, bioterrorism, and general ethical issues regarding the field. The ideas expressed in these papers will be used to elucidate both sides of ethical debates surrounding our project and to present evidence for our statements. For our project, the issues that we will look at will be: Environmental, Ethical, Economical, Legal, and Societal (E3LS). We will also take into account pre-cautionary perspectives (things are bad until considered safe) and pro-actionary perspectives (good until proven otherwise). Our paper will involve two (or more) applications of our signaling system that will be evaluated through E3LS. Can’t wait to get working on it!

In other news… We are thinking of holding an ethics conference in Second Life. We plan to invite many guests to share their thoughts as well as other people involved in iGEM. However, this probably be done in late September. Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you in future updates.


July 24, 2009 - Jon
Jon: The Brave High School Kid that Helped Kids Out


July 17, 2009 - Fahd
First Ethics Update


July 10, 2009 - Patrick
University of Calgary iGEM Team on CTV News