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From 2010.igem.org

Monday 9th August - Slowest day ever

It appears there must have been something in the water today because the team just couldn't concentrate on their tasks at hand. Overall a few emails were sent, a few plans were made, but nothing too interesting to report on unfortunately.

Conclusions - Every team has their slow days. Today was one of those unfortunate days for the team, but don't fret - tomorrow will be better!

Tuesday 10th August - Working our way back up

After a rather mundane monday, we were keen on making amends. Morningtime Tom spent the day weaving the homepage on Dreamweaver. Nii and Narmada went on the hunt for some equations and were successful in their endeavours. Steve, Caz and Matt went back down to the lab to make some more cell based progress.

We used the afternoon productively to continue interviews with Kate and move forward with our human practices work. Plenty of sticky note mess all over again. The end product is an exciting thought!

Also it is important to note the team have now located the kettles in the bioincubator. One can predict tea will become an essential mind fuel for most of the team from now on. Tea.

Wednesday 11th August - Say Cheese!

In the morning Steve, Caz and Matt began some transforming E.coli with some of the iGEM biobrick plasmids. The aim is to grow up some cells, then extract the plasmids to use for our own biobricks. Tom finally made the template work so now our homepage is visible to all... some very important info still to come on our 'About our wiki' section so stay tuned! Nii and Narmada constructed their models... almost finished now too!

During the afternoon Andy, Matt, Caz and Steve worked with Kate to bring our human practices work up to date. Might be good to keep on top of it from now on, does tend to get quite messy when we've left it a while.

We finished around the normal time ~ 5pm.

Tonight's plans - Steve hosts the most cheese for the cheesiest come dine with me yet at Caz's! On the menu: cheesy music, cheesecake, cheese fondue, cheesy peas, macaroni cheese, cheese salad, cheese indeed. good job we're all lactose tolerant *phew*.

Thursday 12th August - Recovery

After a night of cheese and laughs it was time to get back to work. 10am start for Nii and Narmada who needed to meet with Krish to discuss the modelling work they sent him. Steve, Caz and Matt went to the labs for 11:30, but yesterday's experiments unfortunately weren't successful for making plasmid minipreps. Tom stayed in city view working on the wiki until mid day. Andy arrived at around 12 so that we could start our collage for human practices.

Friday 13th August - Unlucky for some.

The plan for today was to get some more interviews on the go. We tried to get as much done as possible on human practices, but unfortunately work went quite slow. We've officially made a mess of Catherine's massive office, so plenty of cleaning to do before she comes back. Steve, Caz and Matt went to the lab to conduct Thursdays experiments again after an setback had occurred from the day.