Team:Bielefeld-CeBiTec/Notebook/Journal/General

From 2014.igem.org


General

  • We started to plan the experiments for the NRW day which we will organize together with the btS (biotechnology students)
  • Within the team we worked on the safety hub for iGEM
  • We designed our first newsletter for our sponsors in which we shortly describe our project. Afterwards we are explaining our progress in each module. We aim to send such a newsletter monthly. The first letter should be published on first of july
  • The application for the SYNENERGENE project was successful
  • Each team member published his own motivation statement on the wiki to get first experiences with the page
  • We invited some professors of our university with who we wanted to discuss about our project. We spoke about each module in detail and got some interesting advices
  • We got another presentation for the IceTag labeling system. The concept is to scan a code with a mobile phone. With this system every freezer or cooler and every box has a unique code. If you put a culture in a box all codes get registered which leads to a great database
  • In a meeting we were sitting together to plan our trip to America. We decided to stay for two additional weeks after the Giant Jamboree
  • We helped at the pupils academy at the university where we did some experiments with the pupils. For further information click here
  • We presented synthetic biology and our project at the NRW day where we got a stand together with the btS. In addition we did some experiments with children and their parents. For more information click here
  • We selected our tracks for the Giant Jamboree: Energy, Environment and Manufactoring
  • First SYNENERGENE meetings have been done. We spoke about possible application scenarios and thought about contact persons
  • Five people went to Merck (Darmstadt) where we gave a detailed presentation about our project. In addition we discussed some problems and got many advices
  • Our SYNENERGENE team skyped with our contact person of the Athena Institut. We talked about some details for the first application scenarios and decided our further steps
  • We had a wiki meeting with the Team Hannover. They participate at the iGEM competition for the first time and because they never did somethink like HTML or wiki they asked us to assist them. Fore detailed information click here
  • Some of us visited the company Dechema where we talked about information on module 1.
  • We have finally identified our project title (26.08.14)
  • The company Gamry lend us a potentiostat for analyzing cyclovoltammograms of different mediators (12.09.14)
  • A delegation of our team visited the meeting in Aachen (13.09.14-14.09.14) and did two talks about our project.
  • Our first press article was released (11.09.14) in german
  • The press release of the english version was finally published (30.09.14)