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An iGEM team outreach goes to Amazon (we mean..inner

Amazon)

Our team went to an adventure in the rainforest; we went to

Manicor, a municipality located in the south-east of the Brazilian

state of Amazonas. Its population is about 48,000 souls (2012) and

its area is 48,282 km. As all little towns in Amazon rainforest its

inhabitants are from small satellite communities. The town itself has

half of the population we mentioned before.

The origin of Manicor name is from the river that has the

same name, one of the main affluent of Madeira River, itself one of

the most important arms of the might Amazon River. The name

Manicor stands for an old Indian tribe that inhabited the region

before the colonization from Portuguese.

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Municipality of Manicor

To get there we traveled about 400Km toward south and

spend twelve hours through a nice and bumpy highway: the river

Madeira. Yes, weve made by boat! These are the truly highways in

Amazon.

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Our route from Manaus to Manicor: ~400km away

We joined another group also working at University of

Amazonas from Chemistry department, participating with then in the

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event called: Unveiling the Forensic Science. Since our

Electrobacter-iGEM project is about (also) environment, as we are

proposing a system that reduces used frying oil spills, we fitted in

their Environment Forensic Science, cool isnt? So, for first weve

made lots new friends from our own University!

And after see the stunning and beautiful Amazonian

landscapes and sunrise and sunset we finally reach the target! What

trip!

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iGEM team and Chemistry department working together and havin

photo together in Manicor. Good times!

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Opening cerimony

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We had a municipal high school to occupy and give three day

course with dynamics and practicum for the students from Manicor

and surroundings. We have more than 300 students participating in

the whole thing counting the three days. We made some plays; DNA

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extraction from onion, banana, pineapple; talked about the used

frying oil environmental issues and legislation about it; and of

course we talked a lot how SynBio can solve this in the future,

therefore we spread the news about iGEM, our participation in the

competition and how it works.

On the boat again.

In the last day we get together with about 40 students in a two-

deck regional boat and we talked about the importance of the

hydrological system in Amazon and other tropical rainforest in the

world (nothing better than do this inside a boat!), and our

dependency from these waters and ecosystems. We also stressed

the point about the use of used frying oil and the threats of it in the

way we humans are doing.

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It was a wonderful experience and made us feel more

Amazonians than ever. We learned a lot and now we can say in a

practical way that science and education can transform lives and

synthetic biology is applicable and feasible for real world problems.

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Besides, people over there have so much to be heard that we could

improve our way of doing research, but this is other text to be

written. Thanks for all that participate on that educational

adventure...Its time to get on the boat once again and come back

home

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