Team:Cambridge/Diary/Week 14

Monday

Andreas fully tested the instrumentation today. A dilution series was made to test the sensitivity of the sensor in the right geometry. More details can be found in the lab-book.

Still no successful ligations for the biobricks, as a couple of colony PCRs show. Looks like the insert for the SpoVA biobrick may not have been digested. Oops...

We persevere though. While some of us concentrate on making the wiki presentable, Emmy and Oli (though mostly Emmy) set up 5 more biobricking restriction ligation reactions. Bands from the gels are beautifully pure, so we're hoping for at least one success.

Alas, the transformants only get plated out at 11 am.

Tuesday

Andreas tested the instrumentation for colour recognition. More details can be found in the Lab book. Wiki dominates proceedings from now on, unfortunately (or fortunately? It's certainly easier to do than ligations). Emmy seems keen to sacrafice her own well being for the success of the wiki, having stayed up all night working on t-shirt designs and then staying until midnight to get some more design work done. She finally goes home after a 36 hour shift - I doubt any of the rest of us can really have reason to complain.

Wednesday

Thursday

Well. I did say yesterday was our final day. But you know, Wiki-ing is just so addictive, it's impossible to shut it out until the last possible moment. So this is it - the final hours. It's been a ridiculous

Goodbye! Farewell! Auf wiedersehen! Adieu!

Now get back to work!

Friday

Saturday

Sunday