Week 1

Monday 21/07

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Edo

Went to Second symposium on the origin of life at UCL (http://www.ismb.lon.ac.uk/origin_of_life.html) Useful things happened there: Met Vitor Pinheiro and some people from his previous lab, had a chat with Alex Taylor. Interesting to see the opinions of “truly synthetic” biologist (life out chemicals) on iGEM (standardised parts of DNA) side of synthetic biology. Met Adam Rutherford, he wants to keep in touch with iGEM teams (wrote two chapters on iGEM in his book) and particularly with UCL as it is his Alma Mater. Invited him for our debate (reconfirmed later in the week for the 26th). He coming. (yeey) Best talk by Pierre-Alain Monnard “Prebiotic amphiphiles, early membranes and protocell functions” and Philip Holliger (Vitor’s best friend) “Towards RNA self-replication Aything else happened that day?

Tuesday 22/07

Edo

• - Found some really good images of azo dyes crystals that could do for the wiki and/or other aesthetic content (https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=azo%20dyes). Contacted Linden Gledhill (Author of the pictures) and got positive response on using his material as long as we with credit him and link to the commercial web site (Linden Gledhill Photography

http://www.lindengledhill.com/).

• - Discussed with him about a potential collaboration: he has some really good footage of the crystalisation that could do for some of our video (on these lines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWam1HlKGkI).
• - Ordered Azodyes (food colouring, non toxic E129) to try to do some pictures of the crystalisation myself with microscope at home/ one at ucl

Wednesday 23/07

Went to the lab and set up a gel. Talk by Brenda Parker "Loop the loop: sustainable biorefining and bioremediation". Notes here https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-tWFSYdf2ODV0pHUVMxbW5ndUk/edit.

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