Crucial Deadlines week - Week 10

Monday 30th August

Today was a very decisive day indeed, we had to overcome several obstacles, one being the possibility of losing one of our main sponsorship bids. But nevertheless, we had to do some urgent reshuffling of tasks and have now unleashed a new wave of sponsorship haggling,... biopharmaceutical companies, be prepared!!!

Tuesday 31st August

Day 1 without the biochemists! Alas the time has come for us biochemical engineers to take over the lab work due to the departure of our biochemists. It just happened that there was also a tube strike this same day, but no, this was not going to stop us! Plan was to start lab work at 10 am, nevertheless, we got into uni about 4pm, but you know what they say, better late then never. We had to carry out a transformation...no comment.

Wednesday 1st September

Elena made an attempt to update the wiki...but without Omar's help that didn't really work out! A few more photos were added, a few more comments were made. Everyone in the team, on their own way, are working on it. Some wet lab, some modeling, some efforts to approach sponsors.

Thursday 2nd September

Ali and Omar spent the day researching the methods and technology available for Ultrascale Down Automation. The majority of time was spent with pHD students and senior lecturers interviewing them about this technology. This was vital because this year we planned on introducing another unique aspect to iGEM and that is the ability to scale down our project. Obviously due to time restriction, this idea was only to be researched and nothing more. Nevertheless, it was quite an insight.

Friday 3rd September

Saturday

Sunday