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Blog #9 - Going to Munich

By AZimmermann 15:02, 23 May 2014 (CDT)

Hello iGEM enthusiasts,

on the coming weekend 3 of our team (Markus, Michael and Arne) are going to travel to Munich for the iGEM meetup iGEM meets CAS. We are very excited for this and can’t wait to meet all the other teams who will be attending. Stay tuned to this blog to see the first pictures when we come back!

So stay tuned!

Blog #8 - iGEM team members back 2 school

By NBailly 16:00, 22 May 2014 (CDT)

Hello iGEM enthusiasts, Since our last visit, the student of the biology-chemistry course at Kaiser-Karl-Gymnasium in Aachen have been busy studying the basics of protein biosynthesis and the "lock and key" model. Now the 9th graders are prepared to have a closer look at synthetic biology and our project.

Each year, many people die of nosocominal infections - infections that the patients acquired in a hospital. However, these infections would be preventable in large part through better hygiene programs. Diseases caused by multi-resistant pathogens are especially critical because therapy options are very limited in these cases.

But actually, what are pathogens exactly and where do they come from? In order to answer these questions, we start the teaching module with the topic "Microorganisms in our Environment". In this part, we explain which germs we encounter every day, and how be can best protect ourselves from them.

In order to demonstrate how many and which microorganisms are our steady companions, we conduct an experiment with the students. A pair of students received 3 agar plates: one with regular LB agar, one plate with agar supplemented by an antibiotic, and one selective agar plate for yeasts and fungi. Equipped with the plates, the students wander through their school and take contact samples from places they think many microorganisms grow there. We will incubate the plates over the weekend so that we can show the students in the next lesson what has grown on their samples.

Blog #7 - The Biobricks have arrived

By AZimmermann 16:02, 12 May 2014 (CDT)

Hello iGEM enthusiasts,

we have finally gotten the iGEM 2014 biobricks!

Now we can really start working on the molecular side of our project.

The reveal of our project, coupled with the launch of our new website will be done by the end of next week.

So stay tuned!

Blog #6 - Preparing Cool Experiments

By AZimmermann 12:12, 7 May 2014 (CDT)

Hello iGEM enthusiasts,

We are currently working together with the Kaiser-Karl-Gymnasium in Aachen. Together we are teaching the students about synthetic biology, iGEM and our project in particular. As a part of this, we are designing cool experiments for the students to do themselves. Here a some nice pictures of us preparing them:

We got a fluorescence readout!

Blog #5 - Assembly in progress

By AZimmermann 12:56, 5 May 2014 (CDT)

Hello iGEM enthusiasts,

if you are like us and can't wait for our wiki page to go fully online (see last post for more information) and the project to be fully revealed, here are some pictures to tide you over until then:

Can you guess what we are assembling?

Blog #4 - We are approved!

By AZimmermann 11:00, 4 May 2014 (CDT)

Hello iGEM enthusiasts,

we are more than happy to finally be able to announce that our application has been finally approved by the iGEM headquarters. Now nothing will stand between us and our journey towards the giant Jamboree at the end of October!

This will bring a few changes towards especially this site. With the approval we now have access to our own wiki website hosted on the iGEM servers. We will migrate all our previous content towards this site in the next weeks. This will include everyhting already posted on here. As soon as we have finished preparing the full migration you will automatically be redirected, so you do not need to remember a different website for all your IGEM Aachen information.

As soon as the migrations has been completed you will also find all the details you need to know about our project we have been teasing about the past weeks on facebook and twitter. So stay tuned!

The project has been progressing nicely in part due to the awesome iGEM Kits provided by NEB:

NEB you are awesome!

Also as always you can follow us on [http://www.facebook.com/iGEMAachen Facebook]] or [http://twitter.com/igemaachen Twitter]]for more information and a look behind the scenes.

Blog #3 - School Project Kick-Off

By NBailly 20:48, 28 April 2014 (CDT)

Today was the kick-off for the cooperation between our iGEM team and the Kaiser-Karl-Gymnasium, a secondary school in Aachen. In the upcoming weeks, exciting school lessons with members of our iGEM team await the students of the 9th grade biology-chemistry class. Different aspects of our project will be highlighted and explained to the students. Demonstrative experiments will explain the practical relevance.

In today's lesson, our members Nina and René offered the students a short impression of what to expect in the course of this teaching module. We also explained synthetic biology and the goal of our project.

Blog #2 - The box is opened

By AZimmermann 9:46, 28 April 2014 (CDT)

Hello iGEM enthusiasts,

interested to see what is inside the box from the previous post?

Guess what we are building?

Blog #1 - The opening

By AZimmermann 10:31, 24 April 2014 (CDT)

Hello everyone, the iGEM competition has officially started and we are taking part! If you are as excited as we are stay tuned as we will unveil everything about our project in the upcoming weeks. This blog will function as a behind the scenes look of the project and the team. So stay tuned for everything iGEM Aachen!

In the meantime you can check us out on [http://www.facebook.com/iGEMAachen Facebook] or [http://twitter.com/igemaachen Twitter] for more updates.

This year Aachen is rocking iGEM!

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