Team:ArtCenter MDP/Notebook
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- | <p>Week | + | <p>Week 1-2, we quickly immersed ourselves in the field of synthetic biology, reading Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature is a Post Wild World, J. Craig Venter Institute, Press Release “First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacterial Cell,” Thank you Christina Agapakis and Ben Hooker for sources. </p> |
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+ | <p>Imagine huge bodies of water, giant ponds and lakes and just below the surface are trillions of organisms working 24/7, eating plant life and producing gasoline. - George Church, envisioning future synthetic biofuel production. | ||
<p>As we developed our concepts certain questions kept coming up for us: </p> | <p>As we developed our concepts certain questions kept coming up for us: </p> | ||
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Week 1-2, we quickly immersed ourselves in the field of synthetic biology, reading Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature is a Post Wild World, J. Craig Venter Institute, Press Release “First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacterial Cell,” Thank you Christina Agapakis and Ben Hooker for sources. | ||||||||
brainstorming | ||||||||
The team collaborated through a series of brainstorming sessions. Each person discussed their research developing various categories to further investigate. | ||||||||
questions | ||||||||
Imagine huge bodies of water, giant ponds and lakes and just below the surface are trillions of organisms working 24/7, eating plant life and producing gasoline. - George Church, envisioning future synthetic biofuel production. As we developed our concepts certain questions kept coming up for us: | ||||||||
concept development | ||||||||
We developed a concept focusing on previous work in genetically altered algae for the use of biofuel production. | ||||||||
design | ||||||||
The ecosystem surrounding the pool became our site for investigation. | ||||||||
site visits | ||||||||
Based on advice from our advisors, we started to grow our own algae as a way to prototype and simulation our localized fuel production model. | ||||||||
simulation 1 | ||||||||
simulation 2 | ||||||||
Simulation 2 | ||||||||
so.cal. igem meetup | ||||||||
Over the summer Media Design Practices hosted the Southern California iGEM meetup. | ||||||||
observations | ||||||||
You should make use of the calendar feature on the wiki and start a lab notebook. This may be looked at by the judges to see how your work progressed throughout the summer. It is a very useful organizational tool as well. | ||||||||
insights | ||||||||
You should make use of the calendar feature on the wiki and start a lab notebook. This may be looked at by the judges to see how your work progressed throughout the summer. It is a very useful organizational tool as well. | ||||||||