Team:Aix-Marseille/Notebook
Calendar
First meeting with the whole team. Presentation of each member.
The team is composed of Simon Arias, Laure Linet, Marion Aruanno, Camille Houy, Axel Levier, Sebastien Nin, Yoann Chabert, Myriam Choukour, Yassine Cherrak, Daniel Calendini
James Strurgis (LISM director) is the team leader.
Gaël Chambonnier is an Instructor. He is a PhD candidate. His thesis is about the transition between the acute and chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.
First talk about what is iGEM, what are biobricks and what could be our project for this year 2015.
Talk about the project, the field of the project
Team registration for iGEM competition.
Welcome to Wilson, a new member of the Aix-Marseille University team. He will be the biocomputer scientist of the team and will work on modeling and software.
Welcome to Laureen, a new Instructor of the AMU team. She is a PhD candidate. Her thesis is on the assembly of the bacterial type VI secretion system.
Presentation of all subject ideas. Election of the best, called “Chew Fight”. We decided to work on the chew degradation using enzymes produced by E.Coli.
Presentation of our project to the instructors and advisors: they liked it and encouraged us to continue on this way.
Applying for funding: we sent a grant file to the French embassy in USA.
Registration in the iGEM website.
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A present from the scientific culture unit of the AMU: a new backpack for each team member: we are ready to come to Boston !
Creation of the logo of the AMU team :
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Welcome to Yoann Chabert, a new member of the team!
Presentation of our project to the Institute of Microbiology of the Mediterranean (IMM) for the summer (CNRS - Aix-Marseille Joseph Aiguier)
Welcome to Romain Clément, a new instructor. He is a PhD candidate and his thesis is on CO2 concentration mechanism study in diatoms (Pseudonana)
A new supervisor named Valerie Prima joined our team.
The team presented our projet “Chew fight” to the laboratory, they liked it and will support us during the summer.
Our project was published in the local newspaper “Grand Luminy”
Welcome to Ella De Gaullejaque who comes from Paris and joined the team! The game Marseille VS Paris will begin !
Meeting with the whole team (members, advisors, instructors) to finalize the timeline of the experiments.
We created a money pot on Leetchi.com to collect money online
The linker between the laccase and the cytochrome has been designed by Wilson.
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The sequences needed were ordered (IDT).
Writing of a newsletter about our project and the synthetic biology.
Successful application for being sponsored by the french embassy in USA.
First day at the laboratory, meeting of everyone.
Cleaning and room arrangement.
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Familiarization and training sessions with technics, supervised by the instructors. We learned basics, as running a PCR, and where we can find everything needed to work in the lab.
Training sessions for PCR
Training sessions for bacteria transformation
Registration for measurement
Training session for Gel purification, PCR clean up, plasmid purification (miniprep)
First purchases of the lab material.
