Timeline

• Start of iGEM and Brainstorming 01 July 2014

  After a weekend off to recover from the end of term we hit the ground running for iGEM 2014 by setting up the lab and undertaking a pipetting course. This set us up for our first of many intensive brainstorming sessions.

• Spotify playlist 02 July 2014

  Our brainstorming sessions were augmented by the establishment of an Imperial iGEM 2014 playlist courtesy of Despoina. You can check it out here.

• Collaboration with RCA students 04 July 2014

  In order to expand the scope of our brainstorming we met up with students from the RCA to hear their ideas about Synthetic Biology and collaborated with them to come up with new ideas.

• Decision Day 16 July 2014

  After over two weeks of brainstorming and developing ideas we presented our favourites to our supervisors. After a nerve-wracking feedback session we decided on our project.

• First day in lab 17 July 2014

  We hit the lab the day as soon as we decided upon our project. This was probably the tidiest the lab was over the entire summer.

• Meeting with Dr. Michael Templeton 22 July 2014

• Meeting with Dr. Andreas Mautner 22 July 2014

• Meeting with Prof. Nigel Graham 24 July 2014

• Meeting with Dr. Sandy Cairncross 28 July 2014

• Meeting with WaterAid 30 July 2014

• Engineering Biology Workshop 31 July 2014

  Our first outreach session introduced synthetic biology to year 10 students.

• Meeting with Dr. Koon Yang Lee 01 August 2014

• Mathematics in Biology Workshop 05 August 2014

  Our second outreach session focussed on showing Year 12 students how mathematics related to biology through the use of modelling software.

• Meeting with Thames Water 21 August 2014

• Meeting with Médecins Sans Frontières 02 September 2014

• Meeting with Dr. Angelo Karunaratne 15 September 2014

• Follow-up meeting with Dr. Koon Yang Lee 20 September 2014