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February
Fevruary 9/10, 2013.- The following is a link to Taylor Fawcett's notes on our Personal Bootcamp workshop presented by the Calgary iGEM team.
March
March 1, 2013.
- Meetings are currently scheduled for Mondays and Tuesdays every week, unless otherwise stated.
- Talked about a parental meeting on the 11th of March.
- Workshop in Calgary (March 23/24). Who will be there?
- Talked about Parental Meeting, Workshop on 23/24th
- "iGEM high school DNA Assembly Guide" handed out. Informed everyone to read it.
- Talked about project ideas. Prevailing idea at the time was an Algae Lamp for Photosynthesis.
- Covered various applications for travel and grants.
- Informed parents on...
- Synthetic Biology- what it is, how we do it, dangers, and benifits.
- Dates to remember- Future workshops, meeting times, and flights to and from Greenfield, Indiana. (Location changed since then.)
- Costs for being in the iGEM group.
- Covered what to bring to the iGEM workshop the following weekend.
- Workshop from 10am to 5pm Saturday, and 9am to 3pm Sunday.
- Talked about our next workshop on May 11/12. What we should have vs. What we need for the Workshop.
- Talked about the Wiki Freeze (approx. June 16) and Competition at MIT.
- Talked about possible sponsors.
April
April 29, 2013.- Choose a person for making a video/presentation.
- Project has two circuits:
- Constutive (always on)- produces xylR. xylR binds with xylene. Now Detectable by promoter.
- Regulative circuit. Stimulated by xylene-xylR molecule. Result: production of reporter (may be green fluorescent protein).
May
May 13, 2013.- Looking up parts for our Circuits.
June
June 10-21st, 2013.- Throughout the two weeks we worked diligently on the Wiki, and Human Practices.
- We came in every week day to work on what we could, and prepare for the presentation in Boston.
- There was a Public Presentation (Parents and Community) on June 18th.
