Dara CzernikowskiBIOSC senior and member of the Pittsburgh iGEM team
Hello from the Pittsburgh iGEM team!
For those who are unfamiliar with us, we are a team of undergraduates from the University of Pittsburgh participating in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2020 competition. This competition challenges high school and college students around the world to come up with and develop a unique and innovative research project involving synthetic biology. The Pitt 2020 team consists of five students who are led by faculty in the departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biomedicine. A new team is formed every year during the spring semester to develop a new project during the summer and compete in the following fall semester! You can check out the 2019 team which included a number of bio majors also!
This year, our team project is called Bluetooth Bacteria and you can check out the concept here:
In order to fulfill a requirement for a medal in this year's competition, our team wanted to reach out and communicate with the general public in a way that has been trending lately as our lifestyles have shifted online: a podcast! What we call the Bluetooth Bacteria Podcast (inspired by our research project this year) consists of conversational style episodes that discuss stimulating and controversial topics in synthetic biology. These topics include: animal organ donation, bioweapons, SynBio dating, and aging. In addition, we have had several other global iGEM teams as guests on our podcast to discuss their projects with us!
We invite you to come listen to our podcast (on spotify or Apple Podcast) - learn about our team, our project, synthetic biology, and iGEM. This is a great organization to explore if you are passionate about biology and making the world a better place. In addition, it emphasizes collaboration, problem solving, and communication - all translatable skills for just about every career! Be on the look out in the spring for sign ups for the 2021 team! We hope you will give our episodes a listen and tell us what you think. Enjoy!
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