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Team:Calgary/9 July 2009
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CAROL
Colony PCR
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CHINMOYEE
Math Model summary made
Today I went to the modelling meeting in ICT building . Then I decided to make a summary about math modelling so that on Friday both the modelling teams could compare the two system . This will ensure uniformity in parameter values , reaction equations used etc. Also a good written record will be present.
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EMILY
J13002-LuxOD47E-B0015 Construction Take Two
File:J13002-LuxOD47E-B0015.jpg
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FAHD
Marketing for july 9th 2009
1) I contacted a number of travel agencies(including Travel Cuts) and the cheapest i got was thru travel cuts and that was 595 CDN dollars(includs taxes and this price is with student discounts). However, Prima got a really good deal a few weeks ago( 412 CDN dollars) and i think(suggestion) that we should book these flights before somebody else grabs the booking. I am still waiting for our team members to respond me back with regards to the HOTELS e-mail i had sent out on WEDNESDAY abt their prefernece. SO far only Patrick, Mandy, Stefan and Prima have told me abt their preference.
2) I did a research/invesyigation on the following research pharmaceutical companies: a-Ambion Inc. b-Charles River Labs c-Critical Outcome Technologies d- E-Z-EM Canada Inc. e- Genome Canada f- i3 Canada Inc. g- Ikaria Canada Inc. h- Inimex Pharmaceuticals i- Arc Pharma Canada Inc. j- Dalto Pharma Services k- Medicago Inc. l- Neuroimage Inc. m- Synbiosis I e-mailed only 4 of the companies above because i want to spend as much time as i can on a company. I also have to confirm them with my team before sending them out so it takes time but i hope they respond back to us in a positive manner.
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IMAN
Descriptive Title of What You're Doing
WIKI CODING HERE
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JAMIE
Signalling circuit construction and Response circuit preparation
See Jeremy's updates regarding luxPQ-luxOU construction from hereonin.
c1lambda and aiiA were transformed from registry plates into TOP10 cells for plasmid isolation and verification.
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JEREMY
Constructing LuxPQ-LuxOU signaling circuit
Purpose: to construct LuxPQ-B0015-R0040-LuxOU-B0015 (hereafter PQ-B-R-OU-B) by inserting LuxPQ (AC) into B-R-OU-B (AK). Construction was performed by setting up a restriction digest by cutting the insert (LuxPQ) with EcoRI and SpeI and cutting the vector (B-R-OU-B in AK) with EcoRI and XbaI. After this restriction digest, phosphotase and ligation treatment was performed and the plasmid was subsequently transformed into TOP10 competent cells and plated overnight on LB+Kanamycin.
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KATIE
Continuation of July 8th
I was able to complete scripts for three construction sites for the restriction digest activity that I planned out yesterday. The three construction sites will be used for creating a circuit from four parts: Promoter, RBS, terminator as well as a gene of the user’s choice. Currently it will only function for a general activity so I will have to modify it for specific missions. The construction sites consist of:
1. Single construction site for ligating two parts of the circuit together. These two parts must have been cut with the proper restriction enzymes to place one before the other ie. Promoter cannot be placed behind RBS. 2. Multiple construction site that works the same as the first but with two parts already together that must be connected to another part. 3. Multiple construction site with three pieces together already. There is also an option to ligate Promoter/RBS with Gene/Terminator, which can actually be considered a shortcut as long as users understand what they are doing. One flaw in the activity is that you are only able to cut each piece once in the donor and recipient tubes, but I thought it would be unnecessarily tedious to cut at each step of construction once they have already succeeded in doing it once, but this can always be changed although I do not plan to in the upcoming week. It would involve possibly doubling the amount of comparisons within the donor and recipient tubes avatars may use to determine what they wish to cut. I also began to modify the recipient and donor tube scripts in order for them to cooperate with the three construction sites so they are no longer fully functional as I continue to change them. I have determined the names of the products an avatar may obtain from performing the activity so now I will have to create them and request they be given to inventory, which I hope to complete by next week and will be starting tomorrow.
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KEVIN
The results of the restreaks of J13002 and GFP/RFP
The following is an image of the restreak:
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MANDY
Second Life Biobert
Today, we finished the prototype for ‘Biobert’, the lab helper robot. When clicked he can move and chat with people (using their names :D). He can also give instructions, note cards, and inventory like vectors. He also is the point where users can choose ‘lab missions’ to complete.
I finished designing/planning the intermediate lab mission level, which is PCR/Gel electrophoresis verification and then bacterial transformation of a circuit. I started designing the more difficult lab mission that involves the compilation of a biobricked circuit. Biobert currently only responds to a couple phrases said to him by users. Tomorrow I plan to expand on both what he does and says (integrate him more in the lab, maybe have him give clues, etc.). Right now, he also likes to repeat himself a lot, which can get kind of annoying so I’m going to delete some of the scripting too. As soon as I learn exactly how Katie’s scripted restriction digest works, I will be finishing the designing/planning of the more difficult lab mission, and then figure out what can be an easy one.
Wiki Reformatting
Today, I tried laying out the wiki more, and getting it ready for sponsors to see. NO SUCH LUCK, HOWEVER: here is what I was playing with, NOT on a wiki site: http://igemtest.blogspot.com
(The purple is still uh…being debated). My css does not seem to combine with the wiki mark up, and Emily found that some teams used ‘templates’ with wiki markup to get around this problem, which I haven’t quite figured out how to do yet, but I’ve bookmarked some pages to read. THE WIKI pages have all been saved on Emily’s laptop and the pages online have been wiped in preparation for some trouble shooting (slowly adding elements and figuring out what isn’t working – why the formatting is off).
THE BLOG is filling up rather nicely, helped Prima upload her video and retagged/formatted the current posts (so they will show up if people search igem on blogspot).
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PATRICK
Descriptive Title of What You're Doing
WIKI CODING HERE
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PRIMA
Company contacts
I updated the gmail contact list. Sent a Thank you letter to Corning Life Sciences.
Called Worley Parsons – the contact they gave me was apparently the wrong person. It was the HR person and she said she’ll find out who deals with sponsorship and get back to me. But I might just inquire and find out myself just in case she forgets. I’ve been calling company 2 for some time now…. I’ll call him again tomorrow.
Sigma-Aldrich- called today but couldn’t get a hold of her so I left a msg follow up tomorrow Cayman Chemicals ..called…needs a final confirmation from their President follow up July 31 Followed up with numerous companies (including oil companies such as Shell and Huskey) but they declined our proposal. I will continue to follow up and contact new companies.
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STEFAN
Freebies
Most of today was spent traveling islands and the online Second Life marketplace XStreet in search of things to get for our sim. These included:
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VICKI
Modelling meeting
Team MatLab met with Team Mathematica in order to better coordinate our efforts and ensure that we have something in place that will have an impact at the jamboree. More comprehensive notes can be found in Chinee’s notebook. We watched a simulation of what Afshin and Iman have come up with for membrane computing and discussed how to go about streamlining our work so that our models will actually have the potential to support each other. This would involve a thorough literature search to find relevant phosphorylation and reaction constants (and an analysis of the inherent assumptions). As well, we agreed to write up a set of rules/reactions so that a team member from the other modelling school of thought (or otherwise) can better follow the work that each modelling crew has done on screen.
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