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<div class="notebook-human">'''Human Practice''' Today Yeping, Martina and Carina planned our activities for UCL Open Day that will take place on Wednesday (4th of July). This is a great opportunity for us to highlight the problem of microplastics to society. We decided on the several interactive activities that we will be offering to the prospective UCL students during the open day. These will include a demonstration of motion video that has been created by our team members and which represents the idea behind our project; also we decided to prepare several questions about microplastics pollution to enhance the awareness amongst the perspective students. The interactive activity 'make your piece of art using plastic waste' was chosen as well; for this we will need to collect some plastic waste before Wednesday.</div> | <div class="notebook-human">'''Human Practice''' Today Yeping, Martina and Carina planned our activities for UCL Open Day that will take place on Wednesday (4th of July). This is a great opportunity for us to highlight the problem of microplastics to society. We decided on the several interactive activities that we will be offering to the prospective UCL students during the open day. These will include a demonstration of motion video that has been created by our team members and which represents the idea behind our project; also we decided to prepare several questions about microplastics pollution to enhance the awareness amongst the perspective students. The interactive activity 'make your piece of art using plastic waste' was chosen as well; for this we will need to collect some plastic waste before Wednesday.</div> | ||
- | <div class="notebook-poster"> Today we researched posters from past iGEM teams in order to develop a clear understanding of what the main criteria are with regards to experimental details, visual representation as well as formatting. After looking through numerous examples, a list of 'dos and don'ts' was produced as well as the general structure of the poster. This | + | <div class="notebook-poster"> Today we researched posters from past iGEM teams in order to develop a clear understanding of what the main criteria are with regards to experimental details, visual representation as well as formatting. After looking through numerous examples, a list of 'dos and don'ts' was produced as well as the general structure of the poster. This gave us the basis for the poster format, as follows: |
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== Tuesday 3rd July == | == Tuesday 3rd July == |
Latest revision as of 18:50, 26 September 2012
Contents |
Notebook: Week 4
Preparations | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Week 13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16
Aims For This Week
Our aim this week is to transform the Curli Cluster, Ribosome Binding Site and GFP biobrick for Module 1 – Binding to Plastics. The Modelling Crew are aiming to finish their ocean model, and begin modelling their 1st receptor model – for the Curli biobrick. The Human Practice team would also like to begin contacting other teams via the iGEM headquarters, to recruit for our radio show, and plan an exhibition at the Dana centre.
Monday 2nd July
- 1. Abstract/Intro/Motivation
- 2. Modelling
- 3. Module 1 – detection
- 4. Module 2 – aggregation
- 5. Module 3 – degradation
- 6. Salinity, Buoyancy and Containment
- 7. Human practices /Public engagement
- 8. Conclusions/Achievements
- 9. Sponsors
Tuesday 3rd July
Wednesday 4th July
Thursday 5th July
Friday 6th July
Reflection
On reflection we have had a very successful week with regards to Human Practice and Modelling. Our open day was one of the key highlights - especially as it was the first display of Carina's plastic island poster. We have also had mounting success with out Crowdfunder campaign - an alliance between Human Practice and Sponsorship - which is sending our message out to other audiences and asking for their support. In the lab, we are still 'warming up' and training everyone, but it is our intention next week to throw ourselves into the research and get a lab book onto the wiki that demonstrates all of the successes and failures. In short, this week has been an exciting start to enacting our aims and next week will be much the same for the lab research.