Revision as of 12:21, 28 September 2010

UCL IGEM 2010

T minus 5 weeks- Week 15

Monday 27th September

An early meeting with the artists to finalize our logo, mascot, and presentation.

Spoiler: Lego pieces are involved.

In the lab, we prepared the chemicals for the fermentation, and Arif was busy filling in a Material Transfer Form to send to M2P labs in Germany, who agreed to run a fermentation in parallel. Arif is Awesome. Carol went on a treasure hunt in search of a funnel, and weighed chemicals for our fermentation, but she still falls short of awesome...

WARNING: "Do not sniff the Ammonia". Seriously.

Tuesday 28th September

Today, we started early. In blue lab coats, we prepared four one litre fermenters for autoclave.

We are at the innovation suite, listening to "hide your kids, hide your wife", and getting massaged by Arif, who is a spartan warrior. We are resting after a battle with the autoclave machine, who at first refused to operate, but then after a couple of words with Carol, was convinced that it should work. And it did, but Carol still falls short of awesome. Arif on the other hand...