Team:Cambridge/Notebook/Week1

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:

• Decided to look into a shortlist of projects
• Bill wore the Bat Country t-shirt.

Tuesday

Morning:

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

Afternoon:

• Practical with Qiagen equipment

Bill wore the interpretive dance T shirt

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:
  • Turing Patterns
  • Bioluminescence
  • Quiescence

Thursday

Discussion of Quiescence:

Problems:

• IP Problem, should ask David Summers about the use of his patented idea. Should we instead try to be more original for the project?
• Biobricking is the ultimate aim, but there is not enough for the while project.
• Altering the RNA structure - might it be too complex for iGEM?

Bio-Luminescence and Quiescence joint project -

Proposed breakdown of project:

• Module 1 - Production of Luciferin, Luciferase and Luciferin Recovery enzyme (LRE)
• Module 2 - Biosynthetic pathway for luciferin
• Module 3 - Biobricking quiescence - require a very good control system to prevent false activation.

Friday

Saturday

Sunday