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         <th>November 25, 2014</th>
 
         <th>November 25, 2014</th>
         <th>Dainius asked Ingrida for help to create Lithuania‘s iGEM team.</th>
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         <th>Dainius asked Ingrida for the help to create Lithuania‘s first iGEM team </th>
 
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         <th>November 26, 2014</th>
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         <th>November 26, </th>
         <th>Preliminary budget was created.</th>
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         <th>Preliminary budget was created </th>
 
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         <th>December 27</th>
 
         <th>December 27</th>
         <th>Dainius had an appointment with our Principal investigator prof. V. Šikšnys</th>
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         <th>Dainius had an appointment with our principal investigator prof. V. Šikšnys</th>
 
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         <th>December 29-30</th>
 
         <th>December 29-30</th>
         <th>Invitation to join a team were sent to students. Team building campaign started.</th>
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         <th>Invitation to join a team were sent to the students. Team-building campaign started </th>
 
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         <th>January 2, 2015</th>
 
         <th>January 2, 2015</th>
         <th>Presentation by Dainius of iGEM at Startup Lithuania event</th>
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         <th>Presentation by Dainius about iGEM at Startup Lithuania event</th>
 
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         <th>January 3</th>
 
         <th>January 3</th>
         <th>Funding campaign started. First request was sent to Council of Science.</th>
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         <th>Funding campaign started. First request was sent to the Council of Science </th>
 
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         <th>January 3</th>
 
         <th>January 3</th>
         <th>The information sheet, indicating the invitation to join a team, was prepared and posted on Facebook.</th>
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         <th>Information sheet, indicating the invitation to join a team, was prepared and posted on Facebook </th>
 
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         <th>January 4</th>
 
         <th>January 4</th>
         <th>Organization core of Dainius, Ingrida and Edvinas first meet up. Preparing a strategy to coordinate a team and a Project</th>
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         <th>Organization core of Dainius, Ingrida and Edvinas first met up. Preparing a strategy to coordinate a team and project</th>
 
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         <th>January 5</th>
 
         <th>January 5</th>
         <th>Core meeting with principal investigator prof. V. Šikšnys: dealing with organizational and funding problems.</th>
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         <th>Core meeting with principal investigator prof. V. Šikšnys: dealing with organizational and funding problems </th>
 
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         <th>January 8</th>
 
         <th>January 8</th>
         <th>All the life sciences community of Vilnius University (al the professors) were informed about iGEM</th>
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         <th>All the life sciences community of Vilnius University (all the professors) were informed about iGEM</th>
 
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         <th>January 21</th>
 
         <th>January 21</th>
         <th>Invitation letters was sent to prospective team members</th>
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         <th>Invitation letters were sent to prospective team members</th>
 
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         <th>January 22</th>
 
         <th>January 22</th>
         <th>Dainius and Raminta (Startup Lithuania) agreed and planed the help for the team via Skype</th>
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         <th>Dainius and Raminta (Startup Lithuania) agreed and planned the help for the team via Skype</th>
 
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         <th>January 28</th>
 
         <th>January 28</th>
         <th>Ingrida meets prof. E. Butkus. Talk about funding and an official registration of a team</th>
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         <th>Ingrida meets prof. E. Butkus. Talks about funding and official registration of a team</th>
 
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         <th>February 8</th>
 
         <th>February 8</th>
         <th>Dainius was introduced to the team during meeting</th>
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         <th>Dainius was introduced to the team during meeting</th>
 
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         <th>February 20</th>
 
         <th>February 20</th>
         <th>Ingrida meets prof. O. Ruksenas – a dean in Faculty of Natural Sciences and a vise dean assoc.prof. J. Turcinaviciene. The official establishment of a team was discussed</th>
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         <th>Ingrida meets prof. O. Rukšėnas – a dean at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and a vise dean assoc.prof. J. Turčinavičienė. The official establishment of a team was discussed</th>
 
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         <th>March 19</th>
 
         <th>March 19</th>
         <th>An event at StartUp-Lithuania was organized to introduce our team to Life Science and business communities</th>
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         <th>An event at Startup-Lithuania was organized to introduce our team to Life Science and business communities</th>
 
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         <th>March 21</th>
 
         <th>March 21</th>
         <th>Reading of Synthetic Biology articles</th>
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         <th>Reading of synthetic biology articles</th>
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        <th>March 22</th>
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        <th>Ieva R visited Kaišiadorys Algirdas Brazauskas gymnasium. Greta visited Panevėžys Juozas Balčikonis gymnasium in the name of the team. Vilnius iGEM team was introduced here.</th>
 
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         <th>March 23</th>
 
         <th>March 23</th>
         <th>The dean of faculty of Mathematics and Informatics was informed and agreed on helping to Vilnius iGEM team</th>
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         <th>The dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics was informed and agreed on helping to Vilnius iGEM team</th>
 
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         <th>April 12</th>
 
         <th>April 12</th>
         <th>Came up with an idea of self-destroying bacteria</th>
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         <th>Team came up with an idea of self-destroying bacteria</th>
 
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         <th>April 15</th>
 
         <th>April 15</th>
         <th>Ingrida talks with director of “UAB August ir ko” company</th>
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         <th>Ingrida talks with director of “UAB August ir Co” company</th>
 
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         <th>April-June</th>
 
         <th>April-June</th>
         <th>Working on Logo</th>
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         <th>Working on team logo</th>
 
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         <th>May 12</th>
 
         <th>May 12</th>
         <th>Ieva R. introduced our team to the greatest scientific communicator in Lithuania dr. Rolandas Maskoliūnas</th>
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         <th>Ieva R. introduced our team to the greatest scientific communicator in Lithuania dr. Rolandas Maskoliūnas</th>
 
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         <th>May 18</th>
 
         <th>May 18</th>
         <th>Meeting with prof. Rolandas Meskys at the Institute of Biochemistry</th>
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         <th>Meeting with prof. Rolandas Meškys at the Institute of Biochemistry</th>
 
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         <th>May 20</th>
 
         <th>May 20</th>
         <th>Sarunas visited Grigiskiu „Sviesos“ gymnasium – the one that he graduated – and talked about „iGEM“</th>
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         <th>Šarunas visited Grigiškių „Šviesos“ gymnasium – the one that he graduated from – and talked about iGEM</th>
 
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         <th>May 20-22</th>
 
         <th>May 20-22</th>
         <th>Barbora joined the „Mobile Bioclass“ project and introduced „iGEM“ to 3 different schools at Jurbarkas, Klaipėda and Kretinga cities</th>
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         <th>Barbora joined the „Mobile Bioclass“ project and introduced iGEM to 3 different schools at Jurbarkas, Klaipėda and Kretinga cities</th>
 
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         <th>May 23</th>
 
         <th>May 23</th>
         <th>Ingrida talks at final of Famelab (Lithuania)</th>
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         <th>Ingrida talks at the final of Famelab (Lithuania)</th>
 
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         <th>May 26</th>
 
         <th>May 26</th>
         <th>Ingrida has presented Synthetic Biology and “iGEM” to students of Birziskos gymnasium, Vilnius</th>
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         <th>Ingrida has presented synthetic biology and iGEM to students from Biržiškos gymnasium, Vilnius</th>
 
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         <th>May 30</th>
 
         <th>May 30</th>
         <th>The season end celebration of Mobile Bioclass project (Ingrida, Barbora). Ingrida presents “iGEM” to the community</th>
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         <th>The season end celebration of Mobile Bioclass project (Ingrida, Barbora). Ingrida presents iGEM to the community</th>
 
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         <th>June 2</th>
 
         <th>June 2</th>
         <th>Visit to Thermofisher Scientific with our Danish friends.</th>
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         <th>Visit to Thermofisher Scientific with our danish friends </th>
 
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         <th>June 5</th>
 
         <th>June 5</th>
         <th>Ieva S. found the “Neurotechnology” and made an introduction to iGEM project for sponsorship</th>
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         <th>Ieva S. found the Neurotechnology and made an introduction to iGEM project for sponsorship</th>
 
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         <th>June 30</th>
 
         <th>June 30</th>
         <th>The mutagenesis awesome kit was provided by “Linea libera” / agreement for sponsorship was made</th>
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         <th>The mutagenesis kit was provided by “Linea libera” / agreement for sponsorship was made</th>
 
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         <th>July 14</th>
 
         <th>July 14</th>
         <th>Primers arrived! Thank you Nanodiagnostika</th>
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         <th>Primers arrived! Thank you, Nanodiagnostika</th>
 
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        <th>August 4</th>
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        <th>National radio put on air our interview about GMO, senescence and our team</th>
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        <th>August 5</th>
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        <th>crRNA gene synthesis was offered by Linea LIbera</th>
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        <th>August 6</th>
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        <th>Additional primers were received. Yay – it is great not forget the control reactions</th>
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        <th>August 11</th>
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        <th>The article with an interview about our project was published on national radio and television website</th>
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        <th>August 11</th>
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        <th>Vilnius team and Baltijos pazangiu technologiju institutas (Baltic Innovative Technology Institute) agreed on organizing Café Scientifique at one of the most popular cafes in Vilnius</th>
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        <th>August 17</th>
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        <th>Team photoshoot</th>
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        <th>August 17</th>
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        <th>Team was registered for the Innovation Fair at the Innovation Drift event</th>
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        <th>August 18</th>
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        <th>Crowdfunding campaign meeting</th>
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        <th>August 18</th>
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        <th>Reaching out to the communities of lithuanians in Boston</th>
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        <th>August 20</th>
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        <th>Video shooting</th>
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        <th>August 20</th>
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        <th>We received our T-shirts!</th>
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        <th>August 20</th>
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        <th>All the team members signed the agreement on volunteering for association of Natural sciences Olympiads in Lithuanian</th>
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        <th>August 21</th>
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        <th>Our advisor Edvinas participated at the national academy for students and introduced iGEM to the most talented pupils in Lithuania</th>
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        <th>August 24</th>
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        <th>Making video backstage shooting. Such a funny evening in the lab!</th>
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        <th>August 25</th>
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        <th>Crowdfunding meeting</th>
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        <th>August 25</th>
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        <th>Audition for presenters at the Giant Jamboree</th>
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        <th>August 25</th>
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        <th>A place to stay in New York City – on the way to Giant Jamboree – was confirmed. Yay – we do not need to sleep under the Statue of Liberty!</th>
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        <th>August 26</th>
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        <th>Grand meeting for the lab team – making the plan for the end of the project</th>
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        <th>August 27</th>
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        <th>Ieva  R. participates in meeting at MITA for Innovation Fair</th>
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        <th>August 27</th>
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        <th>Enterprise Lithuania organized support for Innovation Fair</th>
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        <th>August 28</th>
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        <th>The Measurement InterLab project is finished</th>
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        <th>August 28</th>
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        <th>The Final Safety forms were submitted</th>
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        <th>August 28</th>
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        <th>Our crowdfunding campaign is finally launched at Indiegogo! Join us and be a part of our project</th>
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        <th>September 1</th>
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        <th>Biobrick was sent to Toulouse iGEM team!</th>
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        <th>September 1</th>
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        <th>Team banner design</th>
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         <th>September 3</th>
 
         <th>September 3</th>
         <th>Café Scientific (Vilnius) </th>
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         <th>Café Scientifique (Vilnius)</th>
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        <th>September 3 - 4</th>
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        <th>Innovation Drift fair at Litexpo</th>
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        <th>September 4</th>
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        <th>Biobrick DNA parts were sent.</th>
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        <th>September 8</th>
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        <th>Ingrida and Danielius went to see bioinformatics lab at the institute to get advices for modeling</th>
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        <th>September 8</th>
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        <th>Life Sciences Business Lab at Enterprise Lithuania</th>
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        <th>September 15</th>
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        <th>A meeting with a departments' of Protein-DNA interactions scientist to get some advises for the experiment  </th>
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        <th>September 15</th>
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        <th>Ieva, Barbora, Danielius and Ieva meet an ambassador at the Embassy of Lithuania in Washington </th>
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        <th>September 17</th>
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        <th>Ingrida meets representatives in a Ministry of Environment </th>
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        <th>September 17</th>
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        <th>The most popular new's portal in Lithuania "Delfi" asked us for the interview and it was published on the front page! </th>
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        <th>September 18</th>
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        <th>Feels like -273ºC or 0K. All the team members are sitting in front of computers and do not move. Did someone said freeze?! wiki-freeze?! </th>
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        <th>September 19</th>
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        <th>All the team gather together in New York City to prepare for Boston. iGEM – we are (almost) ready for you!</th>
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Latest revision as of 16:26, 2 October 2015

The Vilnius iGEM 2015 Team Timeline

When? What?
November 25, 2014 Dainius asked Ingrida for the help to create Lithuania‘s first iGEM team
November 26, Preliminary budget was created
December 27 Dainius had an appointment with our principal investigator prof. V. Šikšnys
December 29-30 Invitation to join a team were sent to the students. Team-building campaign started
January 2, 2015 Presentation by Dainius about iGEM at Startup Lithuania event
January 3 Funding campaign started. First request was sent to the Council of Science
January 3 Information sheet, indicating the invitation to join a team, was prepared and posted on Facebook
January 4 Organization core of Dainius, Ingrida and Edvinas first met up. Preparing a strategy to coordinate a team and project
January 5 Core meeting with principal investigator prof. V. Šikšnys: dealing with organizational and funding problems
January 8 Startup Lithuania agreed on helping the team
January 8 All the life sciences community of Vilnius University (all the professors) were informed about iGEM
January 19 A contact with a prorector of Vilnius University prof. E. Butkus was made
January 21 Invitation letters were sent to prospective team members
January 22 Dainius and Raminta (Startup Lithuania) agreed and planned the help for the team via Skype
January 28 Ingrida meets prof. E. Butkus. Talks about funding and official registration of a team
January 29 A meeting room for a team was officially provided by Faculty of Natural Sciences. Thanks to Edvinas
February (all) Analysing all iGEM projects by potential members of a team
February 1 First meeting of prospective team members at LGMOA
February 2 Ingrida started communicating with students representative of Vilnius University
February 8 Dainius was introduced to the team during meeting
February 10 Meeting at MITA organised by Dainius
February 12 A handout was made by Dainius
February 20 Ingrida meets prof. O. Rukšėnas – a dean at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and a vise dean assoc.prof. J. Turčinavičienė. The official establishment of a team was discussed
February 21-22 Presentations on all the analysis which was made about projects. (@Faculty of Natural Sci Students representative office)
February 22 First ideas for Vilnius iGEM team project were offered by team members
February 24 A request to establish Vilnius University team was made to rector. Big thanks to Faculty of Natural Sciences for helping us!
February 24 Team registered for iGEM 2015
March Selection of an ideas
March 18 The name Vilnius for iGEM team was decided
March 19 An event at Startup-Lithuania was organized to introduce our team to Life Science and business communities
March 21 Reading of synthetic biology articles
March 22 Ieva R visited Kaišiadorys Algirdas Brazauskas gymnasium. Greta visited Panevėžys Juozas Balčikonis gymnasium in the name of the team. Vilnius iGEM team was introduced here.
March 23 Communication with Science and Innovation directorate of Vilnius University has been started
March 23 The dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics was informed and agreed on helping to Vilnius iGEM team
March 31 Irus Grinis gives some advices for computer files’ organization
April 12 Team came up with an idea of self-destroying bacteria
April 15 Ingrida talks with director of “UAB August ir Co” company
April 23 Mykolas meets Milda from “OMConsulting” – a consultant for public communication
April 23 Ingrida participates in Famelab semifinal
April 27 Facebook and Twitter were lounched by our Ievas’
April 28 Ieva re-take the communication
April-June Working on team logo
May 3 Main schemes of our project were composed
May 4 Meeting at Institute of Biotechnology – picking the idea
May 8 Egidijus from Thermofisher Scientific agreed on being with us for iGEM
May 9-10 Ingrida participates in public scientific communication seminar. Lectors: Q. Cooper (BBC, UK) and A. Žebrauskas (master of improvisation, LTU)
May 10 The information about iGEM meet-ups was send via email to the best schools of Lithuania
May 11 Ingrida visits Thermofisher Scientific for the first time to agree on sponsorship
May 12 Ieva R. introduced our team to the greatest scientific communicator in Lithuania dr. Rolandas Maskoliūnas
May 13 OMConsulting offers the recommendations for publicity
May 18 Meeting with prof. Rolandas Meškys at the Institute of Biochemistry
May 20 Agency of Science, Innovations and Technology was informed about Vilnius iGEM team
May 20 Šarunas visited Grigiškių „Šviesos“ gymnasium – the one that he graduated from – and talked about iGEM
May 20-22 Barbora joined the „Mobile Bioclass“ project and introduced iGEM to 3 different schools at Jurbarkas, Klaipėda and Kretinga cities
May 23 Ingrida talks at the final of Famelab (Lithuania)
May 26 Ingrida has presented synthetic biology and iGEM to students from Biržiškos gymnasium, Vilnius
May 30 The season end celebration of Mobile Bioclass project (Ingrida, Barbora). Ingrida presents iGEM to the community
June 1-3 Meet-up with SDU iGEM team at Vilnius (Lithuania)
June 2 Visit to Thermofisher Scientific with our danish friends
June 3 Barbora got the sponsorship from Vilnius University insignia shop
June 5 Ieva S. found the Neurotechnology and made an introduction to iGEM project for sponsorship
June 11-12 Enterpreneurship training with world-wide lecturers at ISM university of Management and Economics, organized by Startup Lithuania (Ingrida and Mykolas)
June 16 Version Control System repository for team files sharing was created by Danielius (TortoiseSVN).
June 23 The agreement for sponsorship with Neurotechnology was written
June 23 The requirement for primers was provided to Nanodiagnostika
June 30 Meeting at Thermofisher Scientific Sequence and products centre (Ingrida and Šarūnas)
June 30 The mutagenesis kit was provided by “Linea libera” / agreement for sponsorship was made
July 14 Primers arrived! Thank you, Nanodiagnostika
July 15 Meeting at Startup Lithuania – to gain attention and funding
July 26 Registration fee for Giant Jamboree was paid
August 4 National radio put on air our interview about GMO, senescence and our team
August 5 crRNA gene synthesis was offered by Linea LIbera
August 6 Additional primers were received. Yay – it is great not forget the control reactions
August 11 The article with an interview about our project was published on national radio and television website
August 11 Vilnius team and Baltijos pazangiu technologiju institutas (Baltic Innovative Technology Institute) agreed on organizing Café Scientifique at one of the most popular cafes in Vilnius
August 17 Team photoshoot
August 17 Team was registered for the Innovation Fair at the Innovation Drift event
August 18 Crowdfunding campaign meeting
August 18 Reaching out to the communities of lithuanians in Boston
August 20 Video shooting
August 20 We received our T-shirts!
August 20 All the team members signed the agreement on volunteering for association of Natural sciences Olympiads in Lithuanian
August 21 Our advisor Edvinas participated at the national academy for students and introduced iGEM to the most talented pupils in Lithuania
August 24 Making video backstage shooting. Such a funny evening in the lab!
August 25 Crowdfunding meeting
August 25 Audition for presenters at the Giant Jamboree
August 25 A place to stay in New York City – on the way to Giant Jamboree – was confirmed. Yay – we do not need to sleep under the Statue of Liberty!
August 26 Grand meeting for the lab team – making the plan for the end of the project
August 27 Ieva R. participates in meeting at MITA for Innovation Fair
August 27 Enterprise Lithuania organized support for Innovation Fair
August 28 The Measurement InterLab project is finished
August 28 The Final Safety forms were submitted
August 28 Our crowdfunding campaign is finally launched at Indiegogo! Join us and be a part of our project
September 1 Biobrick was sent to Toulouse iGEM team!
September 1 Team banner design
September 3 Café Scientifique (Vilnius)
September 3 - 4 Innovation Drift fair at Litexpo
September 4 Biobrick DNA parts were sent.
September 8 Ingrida and Danielius went to see bioinformatics lab at the institute to get advices for modeling
September 8 Life Sciences Business Lab at Enterprise Lithuania
September 15 A meeting with a departments' of Protein-DNA interactions scientist to get some advises for the experiment
September 15 Ieva, Barbora, Danielius and Ieva meet an ambassador at the Embassy of Lithuania in Washington
September 17 Ingrida meets representatives in a Ministry of Environment
September 17 The most popular new's portal in Lithuania "Delfi" asked us for the interview and it was published on the front page!
September 18 Feels like -273ºC or 0K. All the team members are sitting in front of computers and do not move. Did someone said freeze?! wiki-freeze?!
September 19 All the team gather together in New York City to prepare for Boston. iGEM – we are (almost) ready for you!
September 24 The beginning of our first Giant Jamboree
September 25 The presentation
September 28 Awards ceremony. GOLD medal! And nomination!