Interviewed by Marlee Tichenor Dirk VandePol serves as a Biology Instructor at the City College of SF and interns with iGEM00:54 What are you pipetting?03:37 What are these DNAs?10:45 So right now a day in the life is mini-prepping?11:21 Can you describe a day in the life?12:05 How will you use the knowledge you have gained in the classroom?12:15 Describe iGEM.14:59 How am I going to bring this back to my students?16:20 What is your name and in?16:48 What is your present position?18:43 What is synthetic biology?22:54 What is flourishing?27:01 Synthetic biology for designing novel life.27:54 What do you think the limits of designing an organism would be?31:06 Whose business is ethics?