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Week 1

  • 21 June 2015

    Go fund me page for the Leicester iGEM team was first created as such: Leicester iGEM Go fund me

  • 22nd June 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Start of Labs

    Making of agar plates, including ones with chloramphenicol, ready to used the next day to streak bacteria

  • 23rd June 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Start of Measurement Study

    -Suspension of parts required for each device required in the measurement study. The parts (Promoter and GFP) were then transformed into DH5(alpha) bacteria. This is then placed on agar plates made the day before.

  • 24th June 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Measurement Study

    Bacteria produced from the streaks from the previous day are then restreaked again

  • 25 June 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Measurement Study

    The restreaks are taken and placed into liquid culture

Week 2

Week 2

  • 29th June 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Measurement Study

    Mini prep of the liquid cultures were made and then nano drops were done

  • 30th June 2015

    1% agarose gels were made to ensure that the products we wanted were present in solution

Week 3

Week 3

Due to our project supervisor being away we decided that we concentrated on ensuring that our wiki was started and planning our actual project!.

Week 4

Week 4

  • 7th July 2015

    Human Practises

    Have created our synthetic biology survey: Leicester iGEM survey

  • 10th July 2015

    Measurement Study

    Use of fluorescence imaging to see the green fluorescence produced from each device. Repeats of each device were produced and placed onto a 96 well plate. First set of rows consist of 200ul of each repeat and next set has 10x dilution.Controls were placed on the bottom row of blank, positive and negative control. Measurements done at about 560nm.

    Nano drops were then taken of repeats which consisted of the highest amount of fluorescence. Fluorescence measured using Omega FLUOstar

Week 5

Week 5

  • 21st July 2015

    Human Practises

    Our team T shirts arrived

  • 22nd July 2015

    Measurement Study

    Device 3 experiments were done to ensure that the parts we want are in a given construct, we did this by producing gels and had done some minipreps

  • 23rd July 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Measurement Study

    Liquid cultures produced

  • 24th July 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Sponsored Walk

    Done a sponsored walk to raise some money for travel and accommodation at the Giant Jamboree in Boston. Walked from Market Harborough to Leicester in the lovely rain :)

Week 6

Week 6

  • 27th July 2015

    9:00-18:00

    Discussion with Professor Ketley about out project in respect to colonisation, etc.

    Look into our wiki and the co

  • 28th July 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Meeting about funding and trip to Boston. Measurement study aspects done and mini preps of each device.

  • 29th July 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Measurement Study

    Nano drops to find out concentration of DNA and find out if the right stuff is present

  • 30th July 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Measurement Study

    Production of 60 repeats for device 3, these were placed on gel and producing plates

  • 31st July 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Measurement Study

    Liquid cultures produced and Device 3 re-digested

    Entered for Jamboree

Week 7

Week 7

  • 3rd August 2015

    Measurement Study

    Biological and technical repeats placed into liquid cultures from plates of device 3

  • 4th August 2015

    09:00-11:00

    Measurement Study

    Centrifuged and resuspended devices in TGE buffer.

  • 4th August 2015

    11:00-18:00

    iGEM project

    Taking parts out required for kill switch, which are then transformed into competent bacteria and streaked out onto plates.

  • 5th August 2015

    09:00-18:00

    iGEM project

    mini preps; nano drop for device 3 and clean up of lab

  • 6th August 2015

    11:00-18:00

    iGEM project

    kill switch digest

  • 6th August 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Measurement Study

    96 well plate- using Elizo app however this did not work properly

  • 7th August 2015

    09:00-18:00

    Measurement Study

    Run gel of digests and ligation- run… to test


    Track selection and abstract

Week 8

Week 8

  • 10th August 2015

    Testing of enzymes to ensure they were sill working by digesting known GFP containing backbone and then placing on 1% agarose gels

  • 10th August 2015

    09:00-18:00

    iGEM project

    Meeting with Dr Haigh about PCR process which we will use to obtain the nadD, nadE and pncB genes.

  • 11th August 2015

    09:00-18:00

    iGEM project

    Gels were made of ligated products for kill switch comparing with undigested products

  • 12th August 2015

    09:00-18:00

    iGEM project

    Production of liquid cultures and growing of non competent bacteria overnight

  • 13th August 2015

    09:00-18:00

    iGEM project

    Liquid cultures of non competent bacteria

  • 14th August 2015

    09:00-18:00

    iGEM project

    Production of competent bacteria. Recovering of DNA from plates and allow for transforming.

Week 9