Team:Cambridge/Notebook/Week1

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Team:Cambridge

Contents

Monday

Morning:

  • Compiled large set of post-it note ideas
  • Categorised them and excluded the clearly unfeasible
  • Those not immediately excluded are listed here#

Afternoon:

Tuesday

Morning:

  • Researching shortlisted projects
  • Demonstration of Techne PCR machine by Bibi scientific

Afternoon:

  • Practical with Qiagen equipment

Wednesday

Morning:

  • Looked over other projects and compiled characteristics of successful projects
  • Presented our projects:
    • Paul: Production - finding something novel for implementation
    • Emily: Degradation
      • There are quite a lot of things to degrade! Even within plastics
        • Genes found to degrade certain plastics: PVA (Poly Vinyl Alcohol), gene produced to degrade it

Bill wore a Honey bear t-shirt

Afternoon

  • We selected 4 projects to further work on, each then researching those we did not come up with:

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday