Team:Victoria Australia/Notebook
From 2009.igem.org
Notebook
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14 May 2009- Team meeting in which we discussed ideas of how we are going to get the biological lighting system to work - Discussed potential sponsors and other fundraising ideas
21 May 2009- Team meeting discussed fundraising ideas – a silent auction cocktail was an idea - Came up with two systems to light the biological lighting system: - Cell free systems - Blue tongue orbivirus system
28 May 2009- Team meeting brainstormed ideas for the silent auction, made a list of people to invite and things to auction of. - Discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the two systems
29 May 2009- Found protocols to put the fluorescent protein into the E.coli system - Began working on the Sponsorship template
4 June 2009- Team meeting came to a vote to use the cell free systems for our biological lighting system and discussed using E.coli strain from cell free chassis submitted to iGEM parts registry - Found GFP parts available through iGEM toolkit o BBa_E0030 – Yellow Fluorescent protein (A. Victoria) o BBa_E0020 – Cyan Fluorescent protein (A. Victoria) o BBa_E0010 – Red Fluorescent protein (D. Striata) o BBa_E0040 – Green Fluorescent protein (A. Victoria) - Contacted Airline companies in regards to sponsorship
5 June 2009- Contacted New England Biolabs in regards to E.coli strains
11 June 2009- Received an email from New England Biolabs in regards of the E.coli strains- as we decided to use the protein expression strains i.e. PR1031 or ER2508
25 June 2009- Two students along side our supervisor went to Japan for an iGEM workshop
29 June 2009- Team meeting – discussed logo, began thinking of t-shirt designs and team names
30 June 2009- Found protocols regarding E.coli and wheat germ cell free systems - Continued working and finalizing our sponsorship template
1 July 2009
3 July 2009- Had a team meeting Caroline Northwood to discuss our approach to sponsorship and our sponsorship template
6 July 2009
- Sent out sponsorship template to all potential airline sponsors
24 July 2009- Team meeting – voted on team name, logo and mascot - Discussed our progress in individual research on the project
11 August 2009- Began working on the Funding proposal to the RMIT Vice Chancellor |