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<p>At the start of our project, we undertook a week of boot camp – yes, it was as intense as it sounds! With all team members coming from a range of backgrounds with different abilities, we thought that this would be a good idea to allow everyone to be on the same page with the same basic level of understanding in each component of the project.</p>
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<h2>Lara Grew</h2>
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<h2>Sharan Nanuan</h2>
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<h2>Training Week</h2>
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<h3>Monday 16th June</h3>
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<h2>Erika Ferreira</h2>
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<li>Laboratory Orientation and Safety Training</li>
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<li>Laboratory Techniques 1</li>
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<li>Pipetting, LB Broth, LB agar and Overnight Cultures</li>
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<li>Project Expectations Discussion</li>
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<h2>Jianxing Qin</h2>
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<li>Medal criteria, weekly meetings to discuss objectives and results, personal logs of what and how things have been done</li>
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<h3>Tuesday 17th June</h3>
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<h2>Alex Simpson</h2>
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<h3>Aerospace Engineering</h3>
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<li>Introduction of Policy and Practices</li>
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<li>Discussion of Social Implications of Synthetic Biology</li>
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<li>Genome 101</li>
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<li>Plasmid DNA extraction, PCR and Chemical Transformation</li>
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<h3>Wednesday 18th June</h3>
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<li>Introduction to Modelling</li>
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<li>BioBricks and the Registry</li>
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<li>Methodology in Social Science and Data Collection</li>
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<h3>Thursday 19th June</h3>
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<li>Oxford Meet Up</li>
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<li>Wiki and Team Identity Discussion</li>
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<h3>Friday 20th June</h3>
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<li>Project Presentation to the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Sheffield</li>
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<li>Weekly Report and Feedback</li>
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<br>This week was very useful as it allowed us to become familiar with all aspects of the project. As well as this, it was a great icebreaker that helped our team of students, advisors and supervisors to get to know each other better!
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<h2>Andrew Landels</h2>
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<h3>Biological Engineering PhD Student</h3>
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<h2>Week 1</h2>
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<h3>Monday 23rd June</h3>
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<h2>Rob Meckin</h2>
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<h3>Science and Technology Studies PhD Student</h3>
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<li>Collated contact details of potential sponsors</li>
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<li>Drafter sponsorship request letters for money, equipment and expertise</li>
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<h2>Celso Gomes</h2>
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<h3>Tuesday 24th June</h3>
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<li>Continued working towards producing a sponsorship package</li>
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<li>Reading published papers relating to synthetic biology and iGEM regarding awareness and impressions</li>
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<li>Set up two meetings: marketing and industry expertise</li>
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<h2>Charlotte Green</h2>
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<h3>Wednesday 25th June</h3>
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<h3>School of Clinical Dentistry PhD Student</h3>
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<li>Mathematica – 4 of our student team members went on a course to learn Mathematica for the modelling aspect of the project</li>
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<li>Further reading of policy and practices papers</li>
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<li>Worked on team identity in preparation for the marketing meeting</li>
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<h2>Elizabeth Court</h2>
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<li>Sponsorship package completed – this can be found here</li>
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<h3>Biological Engineering Phd Student</h3>
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<li>Translated written protocols into the lab notation</li>
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<h3>Thursday 26th June</h3>
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<li>Started planning our Meet Up and contacted teams for potential collaboration</li>
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<li>Continued work on the lab notation</li>
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<li>Discussed potential research questions to carry out a study within the University</li>
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<li>Meeting with industry expert within the University of Sheffield; this provided us with new contacts and a better</li> understanding of the UK sewage system and how it functions. It was also very useful as we began to consider the applications of our project and what we may need to consider.</li>
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<h3>Friday 27th June</h3>
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<li>Used XML and PYTHON to try to produce a computer language for the lab notation</li>
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<li>Mathematica</li>
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<li>Weekly meeting and report</li>
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<h2>Week 2</h2>
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<h3>Monday 30th June</h3>
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<li>Weekly meeting to set objectives</li>
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<li>Worked on the interview questions to be used for the University of Sheffield case study</li>
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<li>Further research on potential sponsors</li>
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<li>Mathematica</li>
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<h3>Tuesday 1st July</h3>
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<li>Meeting with advisors to discuss suitability of research question and interviews</li>
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<li>Began to consider the ethics needed to go alongside this</li>
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<li>Mathematica</li>
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<h3>Wednesday 2nd July</h3>
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<li>Finalised research questions and sent off ethics approval</li>
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<li>Began learning HTML and other mark up languages for the Wiki</li>
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<h3>Thursday 3rd July</h3>
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<li>Team identity discussion on potential project names and logo</li>
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<li>Researched assays</li>
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<li>Wrote COSHH forms</li>
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<li>Sent out sponsorship packages</li>
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<li>ERASynBio research and application draft</li>
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<h3>Friday 4th July</h3>
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<li>Sent out invitations for the meet up</li>
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<li>Organised speakers and planned the remainder of the meet up</li>
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<li>Continued research on assays and writing COSHH forms</li>
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<h2>Week 3</h2>
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<h3>Monday 7th July</h3>
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<li>Weekly meeting to set objectives</li>
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<li>Write up policy and practices project outline</li>
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<li>Emailed Sheffield 2010 iGEM Team regarding their lab notation work</li>
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<li>Collated more contacts for sponsors</li>
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<li>Contacted modelling expert within the University to set up a meeting</li>
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<li>Wiki development meeting</li>
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<h3>Tuesday 8th July</h3>
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<li>Project implementation discussion and potential designs drawn on CAD</li>
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<li>Assay research</li>
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<li>Researched GMO approval requirements for the safety form</li>
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<h3>Wednesday 9th July</h3>
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<ul class="standard">
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<li>Wiki development</li>
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<li>Sponsorship requests</li>
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<h3>Thursday 10th July</h3>
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<ul class="standard">
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<li>Sponsorship requests
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<li>Arranged catering for the meet up</li>
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<li>Wiki development</li>
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<li>Discussed the improvement of the lab notation</li>
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<li>Assay database idea discussed</li>
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<h3>Friday 11th July</h3>
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<li>Weekly meeting and report</li>
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<li>Reading research papers regarding FOGs and whey they are caused</li>
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<li>Lab notation development</li>
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<li>Collected assays for the database</li>
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<li>ERASynBio application sent </li>
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<h2>Week 4</h2>
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<h3>Monday 14th July</h3>
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<li>Weekly meeting to set objectives</li>
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<li>Finalised logo design</li>
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<li>Made contact with experts at Northumbrian Water and Anglian Water</li>
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<li>Wiki development meeting</li>
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<h3>Tuesday 15th July</h3>
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<li>Modelling meeting – use of Mathematica to analyse the FadR characterisation, use of CFD to model fluid flow and also control system analysis</li>
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<li>Meeting with industry expert from the University regarding product development</li>
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<li>Produced poster and presentation for the meet up on Friday</li>
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<li>Debugged temporary wiki</li>
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<h3>Wednesday 16th July</h3>
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<li>Discussed second research question further; concluded it would focus on responsibility</li>
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<li>Jamboree meeting</li>
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<h3>Thursday 17th July</h3>
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<li>Set up interviews with Sheffield City Council</li>
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<li>Sent reminder to all teams attending Friday’s meet up</li>
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<li>Finalised meet up details</li>
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<h3>Friday 18th July</h3>
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<ul class="standard">
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<li>Meet up</li>
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<h2>Week 5</h2>
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<h3>Monday 21st July</h3>
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<li>Weekly meeting to set objectives</li>
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<li>Discussed interview questions for the responsibility question</li>
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<li>Modelling meeting – biological modelling may be limited; product design may be better to focus on</li>
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<li>FadR characterisation meeting – decided to continue characterising this but not use it in the final construct of our product</li>
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<li>CAD drawings of current designs</li>
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<li>Interview with University lecturer from Molecular Biology and Biotechnology</li>
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<h3>Tuesday 22nd July</h3>
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<li>Researched current enzyme dosing systems to help develop product further</li>
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<li>Interview with a food outlet regarding responsibility</li>
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<li>Started transcribing lab book protocols into HTML code</li>
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<li>Researched the law and legislation regarding fat disposal by the public</li>
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<h3>Wednesday 23rd July</h3>
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<li>Meeting with expert from Anglian Water</li>
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<li>Set up interviews within the University for the faculty wide study</li>
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<li>Skype meeting with Manchester iGEM Team for potential collaboration; found that projects were quite different</li>
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<h3>Thursday 24th July</h3>
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<li>Used SolidWorks for new product designs</li>
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<li>Contacts schools regarding outreach</li>
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<li>Spoke to Oxford iGEM Team regarding collaboration</li>
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<h3>Friday 25th July</h3>
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<li>Weekly meeting and report</li>
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<li>Decided to pursue the Manufacturing track</li>
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<h2>Week 6</h2>
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<h3>Monday 28th July</h3>
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<li>Weekly meeting to set objectives</li>
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<li>Reading FOG papers</li>
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<li>Began writing up parts of the project we have completed so far</li>
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<li>Collaborative links established with Valencia iGEM Team</li>
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<h3>Tuesday 29th July</h3>
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<li>Interview with expert from Northumbrian Water</li>
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<li>Organised lab notation testing sessions and carried these out</li>
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<li>Collaborative links with Oxford iGEM Team</li>
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<li>Interview with University lecturer in Landscape</li>
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<h3>Wednesday 30th July</h3>
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<li>Analysed feedback from lab notation testing and made suggested improvements</li>
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<li>Interviews with University lecturers from the Medical School and Geography</li>
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<li>Began SocioBrick development and discussion</li>
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<h3>Thursday 31st July</h3>
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<ul class="standard">
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<li>Contacted Paris Bettencourt iGEM Team to be featured in their newsletter</li>
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<h3>Friday 2nd August</h3>
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<li>Weekly meeting and report</li>
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<li>Interviews with University lecturers from Civil Engineering and Biomedical Science</li>
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<li>SocioBrick development</li>
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<h2>Week 7</h2>
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<h3>Monday 4th August</h3>
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<ul class="standard">
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<li>Weekly meeting to set objectives</li>
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<li>Finished improved lab protocols</li>
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<li>Skype meetings with Oxford iGEM and Paris Bettencourt iGEM Teams </li>
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<li>Interview with a food outlet for the responsibility study</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Tuesday 5th August</h3>
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<ul class="standard">
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<li>Started writing up SocioBrick descriptions</li>
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<li>Wiki development</li>
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<li>Product design</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Wednesday 6th August</h3>
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<li>Interview with University lecturer from Automatic Control and Systems Engineering</li>
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<li>Wiki development</li>
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<li>Product design</li>
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<h3>Thursday 7th August</h3>
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<li>Interviews with University lecturers from Music and Biblical Studies</li>
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<h2>Graham Stafford</h2>
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<li>Product design</li>
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<li>Analysis of interviews conducted over the past few weeks</li>
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<h2>Rob Meckin</h2>
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<h2>Celso Gomes</h2>
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<h3>Science and Technology Studies PhD Student</h3>
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We couldn't have done this without the help of a lot more people! Checkout our <a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Sheffield/Acknowledgements">acknowledgements</a> page
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<h3>Friday 8th August</h3>
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<li>Weekly meeting and report</li>
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<li>Skype meeting with Oxford iGEM Team</li>
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<li>Added to the wiki write ups</li>
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<h2>Week 8</h2>
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<h3>Monday 11th August</h3>
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<li>Weekly meeting to set objectives</li>
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<li>Interview analysis</li>
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<h3>Tuesday 12th August</h3>
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<li>Write up of the interviews conducted within the University</li>
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<li>Product development</li>
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<li>SocioBrick development</li>
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<h3>Wednesday 13th August</h3>
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<li>Interview with a representative from the Labour party</li>
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<li>Wiki development</li>
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<li>Product development</li>
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<h3>Thursday 14th August</h3>
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<li>SocioBrick development</li>
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<li>Product development</li>
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<h3>Friday 15th August</h3>
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<li>Weekly meeting and report</li>
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<li>Wrote project abstract for the iGEM official team page</li>
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<h2>Week 9</h2>
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<h3>Monday 18th August</h3>
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<li>Weekly meeting to set objectives</li>
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<li>Researched more analysis SocioBricks as these were lacking</li>
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<h3>Tuesday 19th August</h3>
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<li>Product design</li>
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<li>Interview analysis for responsibility report</li>
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<li>Wiki development</li>
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<h3>Wednesday 20th August</h3>
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<li>Wiki team meeting to set up deadlines for the next few weeks</li>
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<li>Designs for the wiki layout made</li>
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<li>Writing up responsibility report</li>
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<h3>Thursday 21st August</h3>
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<ul class="standard">
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<li>Writing up responsibility report</li>
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<li>Interviewed more food outlets and analysed the results</li>
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<li>Contacted more water companies</li>
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<li>Set up a trip to Veolia for late September </li>
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<h3>Friday 22nd August</h3>
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<ul class="standard">
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<li>Weekly meeting and report</li>
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<li>Collaborative link with Valencia_UPV iGEM Team – agreed to test our lab notation</li>
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<li>Interview with a Labour councillor</li>
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<h3>Monday 25th August</h3>
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<li>Bank Holiday
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<h3>Tuesday 26th August</h3>
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<li>Planned outreach events for schools</li>
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<li>Made poster for YSB/UCL meet up</li>
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<li>Sent improved lab notation to Edinburgh iGEM Team for collaboration</li>
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<li>Writing up responsibility report</li>
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<h3>Wednesday 27th August</h3>
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<li>Made presentation for YSB/UCL meet up</li>
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<li>Product development</li>
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<li>Safety form</li>
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<h3>Thursday 28th August</h3>
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<li>Treatment plant visit and interviews with the workers there</li>
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<li>Product development</li>
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<li>Weekly meeting and report – everyone given specific deadlines to meet over the next month</li>
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<li>Finalised poster and presentation for YSB/UCL meet up</li>
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<li>Wiki development</li>
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Revision as of 22:00, 17 October 2014

Dry Lab Journal

At the start of our project, we undertook a week of boot camp – yes, it was as intense as it sounds! With all team members coming from a range of backgrounds with different abilities, we thought that this would be a good idea to allow everyone to be on the same page with the same basic level of understanding in each component of the project.

Training Week

Monday 16th June

  • Laboratory Orientation and Safety Training
  • Laboratory Techniques 1
    • Pipetting, LB Broth, LB agar and Overnight Cultures
  • Project Expectations Discussion
    • Medal criteria, weekly meetings to discuss objectives and results, personal logs of what and how things have been done

Tuesday 17th June

  • Introduction of Policy and Practices
  • Discussion of Social Implications of Synthetic Biology
  • Genome 101
  • Laboratory Techniques 2
    • Plasmid DNA extraction, PCR and Chemical Transformation

Wednesday 18th June

  • Introduction to Modelling
  • BioBricks and the Registry
  • Methodology in Social Science and Data Collection

Thursday 19th June

  • Oxford Meet Up
  • Wiki and Team Identity Discussion

Friday 20th June

  • Project Presentation to the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Sheffield
  • Weekly Report and Feedback

This week was very useful as it allowed us to become familiar with all aspects of the project. As well as this, it was a great icebreaker that helped our team of students, advisors and supervisors to get to know each other better!

Week 1

Monday 23rd June

  • Collated contact details of potential sponsors
  • Drafter sponsorship request letters for money, equipment and expertise

Tuesday 24th June

  • Continued working towards producing a sponsorship package
  • Reading published papers relating to synthetic biology and iGEM regarding awareness and impressions
  • Set up two meetings: marketing and industry expertise

Wednesday 25th June

  • Mathematica – 4 of our student team members went on a course to learn Mathematica for the modelling aspect of the project
  • Further reading of policy and practices papers
  • Worked on team identity in preparation for the marketing meeting
  • Sponsorship package completed – this can be found here
  • Translated written protocols into the lab notation

Thursday 26th June

  • Started planning our Meet Up and contacted teams for potential collaboration
  • Continued work on the lab notation
  • Discussed potential research questions to carry out a study within the University
  • Meeting with industry expert within the University of Sheffield; this provided us with new contacts and a better
    • understanding of the UK sewage system and how it functions. It was also very useful as we began to consider the applications of our project and what we may need to consider. Mathematica

Friday 27th June

  • Used XML and PYTHON to try to produce a computer language for the lab notation
  • Mathematica
  • Weekly meeting and report

Week 2

Monday 30th June

  • Weekly meeting to set objectives
  • Worked on the interview questions to be used for the University of Sheffield case study
  • Further research on potential sponsors
  • Mathematica

Tuesday 1st July

  • Meeting with advisors to discuss suitability of research question and interviews
  • Began to consider the ethics needed to go alongside this
  • Mathematica

Wednesday 2nd July

  • Finalised research questions and sent off ethics approval
  • Began learning HTML and other mark up languages for the Wiki

Thursday 3rd July

  • Team identity discussion on potential project names and logo
  • Researched assays
  • Wrote COSHH forms
  • Sent out sponsorship packages
  • ERASynBio research and application draft

Friday 4th July

  • Sent out invitations for the meet up
  • Organised speakers and planned the remainder of the meet up
  • Continued research on assays and writing COSHH forms

Week 3

Monday 7th July

  • Weekly meeting to set objectives
  • Write up policy and practices project outline
  • Emailed Sheffield 2010 iGEM Team regarding their lab notation work
  • Collated more contacts for sponsors
  • Contacted modelling expert within the University to set up a meeting
  • Wiki development meeting

Tuesday 8th July

  • Project implementation discussion and potential designs drawn on CAD
  • Assay research
  • Researched GMO approval requirements for the safety form

Wednesday 9th July

  • Wiki development
  • Sponsorship requests

Thursday 10th July

  • Sponsorship requests
  • Arranged catering for the meet up
  • Wiki development
  • Discussed the improvement of the lab notation
  • Assay database idea discussed

Friday 11th July

  • Weekly meeting and report
  • Reading research papers regarding FOGs and whey they are caused
  • Lab notation development
  • Collected assays for the database
  • ERASynBio application sent

Week 4

Monday 14th July

  • Weekly meeting to set objectives
  • Finalised logo design
  • Made contact with experts at Northumbrian Water and Anglian Water
  • Wiki development meeting

Tuesday 15th July

  • Modelling meeting – use of Mathematica to analyse the FadR characterisation, use of CFD to model fluid flow and also control system analysis
  • Meeting with industry expert from the University regarding product development
  • Produced poster and presentation for the meet up on Friday
  • Debugged temporary wiki

Wednesday 16th July

  • Discussed second research question further; concluded it would focus on responsibility
  • Jamboree meeting

Thursday 17th July

  • Set up interviews with Sheffield City Council
  • Sent reminder to all teams attending Friday’s meet up
  • Finalised meet up details

Friday 18th July

  • Meet up

Week 5

Monday 21st July

  • Weekly meeting to set objectives
  • Discussed interview questions for the responsibility question
  • Modelling meeting – biological modelling may be limited; product design may be better to focus on
  • FadR characterisation meeting – decided to continue characterising this but not use it in the final construct of our product
  • CAD drawings of current designs
  • Interview with University lecturer from Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Tuesday 22nd July

  • Researched current enzyme dosing systems to help develop product further
  • Interview with a food outlet regarding responsibility
  • Started transcribing lab book protocols into HTML code
  • Researched the law and legislation regarding fat disposal by the public

Wednesday 23rd July

  • Meeting with expert from Anglian Water
  • Set up interviews within the University for the faculty wide study
  • Skype meeting with Manchester iGEM Team for potential collaboration; found that projects were quite different

Thursday 24th July

  • Used SolidWorks for new product designs
  • Contacts schools regarding outreach
  • Spoke to Oxford iGEM Team regarding collaboration

Friday 25th July

  • Weekly meeting and report
  • Decided to pursue the Manufacturing track

Week 6

Monday 28th July

  • Weekly meeting to set objectives
  • Reading FOG papers
  • Began writing up parts of the project we have completed so far
  • Collaborative links established with Valencia iGEM Team

Tuesday 29th July

  • Interview with expert from Northumbrian Water
  • Organised lab notation testing sessions and carried these out
  • Collaborative links with Oxford iGEM Team
  • Interview with University lecturer in Landscape

Wednesday 30th July

  • Analysed feedback from lab notation testing and made suggested improvements
  • Interviews with University lecturers from the Medical School and Geography
  • Began SocioBrick development and discussion

Thursday 31st July

  • Contacted Paris Bettencourt iGEM Team to be featured in their newsletter

Friday 2nd August

  • Weekly meeting and report
  • Interviews with University lecturers from Civil Engineering and Biomedical Science
  • SocioBrick development

Week 7

Monday 4th August

  • Weekly meeting to set objectives
  • Finished improved lab protocols
  • Skype meetings with Oxford iGEM and Paris Bettencourt iGEM Teams
  • Interview with a food outlet for the responsibility study

Tuesday 5th August

  • Started writing up SocioBrick descriptions
  • Wiki development
  • Product design

Wednesday 6th August

  • Interview with University lecturer from Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
  • Wiki development
  • Product design

Thursday 7th August

  • Interviews with University lecturers from Music and Biblical Studies
  • Product design
  • Analysis of interviews conducted over the past few weeks

Friday 8th August

  • Weekly meeting and report
  • Skype meeting with Oxford iGEM Team
  • Added to the wiki write ups

Week 8

Monday 11th August

  • Weekly meeting to set objectives
  • Interview analysis

Tuesday 12th August

  • Write up of the interviews conducted within the University
  • Product development
  • SocioBrick development

Wednesday 13th August

  • Interview with a representative from the Labour party
  • Wiki development
  • Product development

Thursday 14th August

  • SocioBrick development
  • Product development

Friday 15th August

  • Weekly meeting and report
  • Wrote project abstract for the iGEM official team page

Week 9

Monday 18th August

  • Weekly meeting to set objectives
  • Researched more analysis SocioBricks as these were lacking

Tuesday 19th August

  • Product design
  • Interview analysis for responsibility report
  • Wiki development

Wednesday 20th August

  • Wiki team meeting to set up deadlines for the next few weeks
  • Designs for the wiki layout made
  • Writing up responsibility report

Thursday 21st August

  • Writing up responsibility report
  • Interviewed more food outlets and analysed the results
  • Contacted more water companies
  • Set up a trip to Veolia for late September

Friday 22nd August

  • Weekly meeting and report
  • Collaborative link with Valencia_UPV iGEM Team – agreed to test our lab notation
  • Interview with a Labour councillor

Week 10

Monday 25th August

  • Bank Holiday

Tuesday 26th August

  • Planned outreach events for schools
  • Made poster for YSB/UCL meet up
  • Sent improved lab notation to Edinburgh iGEM Team for collaboration
  • Writing up responsibility report

Wednesday 27th August

  • Made presentation for YSB/UCL meet up
  • Product development
  • Safety form

Thursday 28th August

  • Treatment plant visit and interviews with the workers there
  • Product development

Friday 29th August

  • Weekly meeting and report – everyone given specific deadlines to meet over the next month
  • Finalised poster and presentation for YSB/UCL meet up
  • Wiki development
  • Uploaded project title and abstract to the official iGEM team page
  • Uploaded project title and abstract to the official iGEM team page

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