APPLICATION

• 2nd: GET TOGETHER!! Cristina brought brownies!
• 9th: We started looking at some of the previous successful projects.
• 16th: More on the old projects eating a fantastic Tiramisu from Giacomo.
• 23rd: Crash course on Synthetic Biology from Sheref and Cristina

APRIL

• 13rd: Brainstorming. No more cakes?
• 16th: Brainstorming. Where is the cake?
• 19th: It seems like everybody likes the idea proposed by Daniele. Remove the black crust from statues. We decided to look more specifically into these topics: A) how to dissolve the black crust, B) how to keep the “patina nobile” (calcium oxalate protective film) and C) how to kill biofilms, all to protect statues and marble monuments. Giacomo will look into secretion systems and Francesco suggested a photoinducible system. We have homework to do.
• 24th: Discussion on possible ways to achieve our goals. We looked into the mechanism of SRB for sulfate reduction.
• 27th: More ideas on the Black crust project based on a work of J.Keasling that Jason found in the literature. We are also thinking of having a side project for the characterization of deposited parts (RBS, promoters, terminators?). Each of us will further investigate the fesibility of the topics discussed on April 19th and will present a plan of work for next time.

MAY

• 14th: Presentations and discussion on the investigated topics. Other PIs from CIBIO participated to the discussion too.
• 28th: The project is finalized: We will save the world one statue at time! We decided to drop the project on the formation of calcium oxalate and biofilm disruption. Perhaps next year team can look into it.