Team:Toulouse/Notebook

iGEM Toulouse 2015

Notebook



Februrary

02/02/2015

First team meeting, our instructors informed us on the competition and how the team is organized. Our first mission is to prepare a presentation for the next week on the following themes:

  • Previous subjects. What are the themes explored by iGEM? Give examples of good projects and explain why they won?
  • Biobricks? What are they? What’s their advantages? What are the materials send by iGEM? How does the registry work?
  • Competition and deadlines. How does the competition works and what are the important deadlines?

Those presentations gave us the opportunity to understand more of the iGEM competition and to get to know each other (since we don’t all come from the same institutions)

Our first team meeting

09/02/2015

Every groups of two or three students presented one of the subjects seen above. Every presentation was followed by a Q&A so that everyone understood clearly the competition.

16/02/2015

The next step was to present every week 2 new Project ideas. The presentations were divided in the following parts.

  • Context
  • Goal
  • Originality
  • Strategy
  • Difficulty
  • Modeling
  • Device
  • Benefit
  • Ethic
  • Planning
  • Why is this project going to win?

From february to may

The following weeks were spent brainstorming. Everyone presented at least two projects ideas. Here are a few examples of the project that were reviewed:

  • Creation of a rapid detection kit for hepatitis
  • Degradation of Lignin
  • Use of ice nucleation proteins for water desalination
  • Creation of a small domestic pollution detector
  • ...

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