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Week Two
From 2009.igem.org
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May 22nd
We still spent the initial part of the week reading up a lot on various topics related to art,science and technology, trying to guage what exactly our project was and could be.
Parallely, we applied our imagination onto various small scale projects such as making our own livin biological sculptures and thinking up ideas of presentation at the jamboree.
However, we were still thinking from the perspective of an art/design student and were applying only our previous background-based understanding.
Today's Reading:
Observations of an Art of Growing Interest:
Jenshauser Some basics of Gene Expression and production of Proteins and Enzymes by Genes
May 25th
Presentation ideas- Bollywood sculpture?
 Neha's Rain Sculpture : Feet on rain drops |
 Krupakar's Machine |
 Sandeep's Machine: Its this big box. There is a projection of a window looking out into rain. All the paraphanalia can fit in the space below. Fog machine?. The curtain goes all round. |
 Upasana's Installation |
How to read a scientific Paper by Mukund
1) Scan through the entire article quickly and find out what they are saying or trying to say.
2) Do not get lost in the references beyond 2 layers
We wanted to create our own gel-electrophoresis chamber, so we looked up various guides on the internet and chose this to be the best out of them:
How to create a gel electrophoresis chamber:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/gel/gelchamber
Today's Reading:
A synthetic Oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators:
[http://www.elowitz.caltech.edu/publications/Repressilator.pdf ]
May 27th
The Open Gel Box:
http://openwetware.org/wiki/DIYbio:Notebook/Open_Gel_Box_2.0/RFC1
A blog about the 2009 UMass Amherst iGEM team :
http://umassigem.blogspot.com/
Extracting DNA from Strawberries:
http://diybio.org/2009/03/20/extract-dna-from-strawberries/
May 28th
Bio-Sculptures:
Avni's Chicken in a Kaleidoscope
Neha's From a Spider
 Spider-artist? A spider made to crawl through watercolor on white paper in a one-holed plastic box overnight. |
 An attempt to trace its movement in colors. Perhaps record a pattern?Would this be art? |
Sandeep's Mustard Seeds
May 29th
 Neha's 'TheArtScientist'-Page 1 |
 TheArtScientist-Page 2 |
