Through our iGEM journey, we made very good use of the collaborations between us and many iGEM teams across the world exchanging science, information, a lot of experience, and spreading our project in faraway societies as they do in ours.
As a part of our plan to spread knowledge about Alzheimer’s Disease,
we wrote a diary-like book that talks about someone who just knew
that his mother suffers from Alzheimer’s and that he might have the
risk factors as well! The book is filled with lots of information about the
disease, risk factors, and methods of disease prevention.
The second section is about the MIND diet, a diet for brain health that reduces the
risk of brain disorders and memory loss. The third section is a detailed
treatment protocol including what the patient's family should do.
We didn’t stop here, but we decided to contact as many teams as we can
so they can translate and share it on their social media to reach their
societies, adding local recipes from their country following the MIND
diet.
This video was another way to try and reach out to more people to spread knowledge about AD and let the message be known, that there is a team out there working on such disease. This was done with the help of our iGEMers friends as it is a multilingual video where every team recorded the same script in their language with English narration and many subtitle files. This video was done with the help of teams: Linkoping_Sweden – Korhs – Patras Patras_Medicine
As explained on the human practices page, we held a mini iGEM
competition to make a small simulation of the big iGEM competition
and throughout the competition day, we decided to communicate with
our iGEMers friends so they can be part of the day with us and give a
small presentation about their projects to the attendees which were
more than 100 college student and professors.
We also made sure to invite the African ambassadors, so they can inspire the future
iGEMers and let them see what iGEM community looks like. We are
grateful that they were there and very thankful to the teams attending
that event.
Team: Makerere - Patras_Medicine
- They participated in our multi-language video about AD.
- They translated our diary book (Zekra) into their language.
-They presented their project in our big miniGEM event.
- We translated their synthetic biology comic book for kids in our native language Arabic.
- They asked us to translate questions in their game into Arabic and
add some questions to it about AD, questions in their game into our own language, in addition to adding some questions about AD.
We sent them a survey about AD to fill and spread it in their community.
They participated in our AD awareness video with Greek language.
We took part in their video about iGEM, explaining why we participated in iGEM, our iGEM project track ,and how we implemented synthetic biology in our solution.
They presented their project in our mini-iGEM competition.
They translated our diary book (Zekra) in their language.
So we engaged in CCU_Taiwan;s cookbook which contains Cardiovascular disease (CVD)-free recipes from different countries. And we represented the CVD-free recipes from Egypt. Also, they translated our diary book (Zekra) into their language (Chinese -Mandarin).