Team:UCSF/Our summer experience
From 2009.igem.org
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
- Alex Smith
- Allen Cai
- Cathy Liu
- 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.
- Ethan Chan: This experience has brought me closer to my peers and gave me critical lab experience that not many High School students get!
- Eric Wong
- Hansi Liu
- Jackie Tam
- Katja Kolar
- Ryan Quan
- Ryan Liang