AMPodcast iGEM Team Tuebingen

In this episode, we talked to a fellow iGEM team, the iGEM team from CCU Taiwan. They are also utilizing AMPs in their project, however in a completely different way, so you will learn a lot about a different approach to fight the worldwide problem of antibiotic resistance. Hear about what their project and aims were, which issues they were concerned with the most, and how they overcame the problems they encountered. This episode is also a remarkable example of the internationality of iGEM generally as we shared with each other our experience in the competition so far.

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In this part 2, we continue our interview with Prof. Potthast from the University of Tuebingen. We talk about research ethics in general, what to consider when designing a project with regards to the ethical dimension, and about science communication, for example, during the COVID pandemic.

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This is part 1 of our interview with Prof. Potthast, who is a bioethicist at the IZEW, the ethics institute at the University of Tuebingen. We are talking about the general difference between ethics and morality, and the boundaries of bioethics. This includes how to schedule a scientific project to be ethically viable, and the limits of synthetic biology.

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This week we are talking to Jun.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Dräger and how he is developing computational models for fighting antimicrobial-resistant pathogens and other diseases. We learn about his current work, what systems biology actually is, and what we should look out for in the future. If you want to find out more, check out his YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/systemsbiology

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In this episode, we talk to Prof. Nadine Ziemert, who is a researcher at the University of Tuebingen.

Her field is the bioinformatics-focused search for new biomedical compounds, especially through the identification of secondary metabolite gene clusters, which encode for the synthesis of different bioactive compounds such as antibiotics. We also talk about potentially interesting organisms, that could be important sources for these novel compounds.

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In this episode, we are speaking to Dr. Üner Kolukisaoglu, who is a researcher at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology in Tuebingen and a lecturer at the University of Tuebingen.

Topics include his research in Plant Biology, Ethics in Biotechnology including European Legislation, and Science Communication regarding Biotechnology.

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