Team:ArtCenter MDP/Notebook

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research

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.