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Revision as of 11:05, 16 July 2010
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
- There are quite a lot of things to degrade! Even within plastics
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
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) - these are all firefly
- Module 2 - Biosynthetic pathway for luciferin
- Module 3 - Biobricking quiescence - require a very good control system to prevent false activation, could add a conformational change to the molecule.
If could not get quiescence to work, would the light producing bacteria be enough of a project? Know we have a "super" luciferase with 12x the affinity for the substrate and not for the product. The firefly systems are all eukaryotic, so suggest that we could perhaps do this in yeast. Control of quiescence could also occur via cyclin control in yeast again.
Bill wore the TV Bear tshirt
Friday
Bill wore Ni tshirt
Decided to drop HIV project, continuing research on Bio-Luminescence idea. Started using Flickr account - http://www.flickr.com/photos/52129837@N08/
Saturday
Sunday
