Team:UCSF/Our summer experience

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Summer Curriculum

  • Selecting/Development of the iGEM team:High School teacher Mr.Cachianes hand selected seven students from his second year biotechnology class for the iGEM team.
  • Pre-meetings:Starting early April, Mr.Cachianes and his seven students met with UCSF's iGEM coordinators to start the pre-project and learn more about synthetic biology and cell motility.
  • Bootcamp: For two weeks, the iGEM team met everyday for four hour lectures on the mechanisms of cell motility, and discussed scientific papers.
  • Brainstorming: At the end of bootcamp, the iGEM team got divided into three separate teams to brainstorm
  • Execution

Personal Blogs about the Experience

  • [http://arsigem.blogspot.com/ Alex Smith]
  • [http://caiallen.tumblr.com/ Allen Cai]
  • [http://cathyliu.tumblr.com/ Cathy Liu]
  • [http://miaomiao.tumblr.com/ Edna Miao]: IGEM has forced me outside my comfort zone many times and consequently has taught me better public speaking and critical thinking skills, on top of new lab techniques of course.
  • [http://echan08.blogspot.com/ Ethan Chan]: This experience has brought me closer to my peers and gave me critical lab experience that not many High School students get!
  • [http://ertwong.tumblr.com/ Eric Wong]
  • Hansi Liu
  • [http://tackiejam.tumblr.com/ Jackie Tam]
  • Katja Kolar
  • [http://ryanquan.tumblr.com/ Ryan Quan]
  • [http://ryeland.tumblr.com/ Ryan Liang]
  • [http://davidpincus.tumblr.com/ Advisor David Pincus's blog]
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