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From 2014.igem.org
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!
