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Team:SDU-Denmark/Diary/week1
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Diary
Here is our diary. This is where we have written about meetings and highlights during the process.
31.01.12:
The first part of the team was created
09.02.12:
Supervisor meeting
28.02.12:
Official information meeting about iGEM 2012
Some of our advisors met with everyone interested in joining this years team to tell us about iGEM and how to join the team.
15.03.12:
The final team participants were decided
17.03.12:
Information meeting for the participants
Two of our advisors had a meeting with us to talk about our previous experiences and our expectations.
19.03.12:
The first meeting with only team members
We talked about scheduling and organization. It was important for us to have a common communication platform that is easy to use and works well with several users. We decided that Facebook would work for now, for discussions and announcements, and Google Docs/Drive for documents. For scheduling meetings we decided to use Doodle.
In addition, we also discussed different subjects for our project, talked about the teams expectations and how to help each other.
29.03.12:
iGEM team registration accepted and registration fee paid
31.03.12:
Registration of team members individually
09.04.12:
Team Meeting
We discussed and limited our subjects and problems. We talked about the wiki site and how we would like it to look.
16.04.12:
Team Meeting
Talking and discussing the different topics. We voted for the best topic and began a discussion about how it should be approached.
24.04.12:
Team Meeting
Project organization. The team met to discuss our subjects before meeting with our supervisors.
We tried to limit our subject choices. When our supervisors joined the meeting, we did a round of “meet and greet” between the participants and the supervisors. Afterwards, we did a short presentation for the supervisors of our chosen subjects.
We decided that the aim of our next meeting should be to decide on our final subject for the project. The team members all chose an idea they wanted to present for the rest of the team so that we could make our decision.
Team Bielefeld-Germany asked whether or not we would like to be sparring team with them, which we of course said yes to. We also plan to visit them during the summer.
26.04.12:
Team Building :)
We gathered for a night of pizza, fun and games!
29.04.12:
Symposium
We had presentations from previously iGEM contestants who informed us about the iGEM concept and synthetic biology.
07.05.12:
Team Meeting
We finally agreed on a subject for our project; A bacteria that can convert sugar to a fiber the human body cannot absorb. Making it easier to lose or not gain weight.
During the meeting we also did a distribution of different tasks, such as choosing who would be responsible for various groups such as funding, lab work, the podcast with Cornell etc. We also divided the team into these subdivisions: A funding group, a wiki group, a podcast group and a group that would stay in touch with the iGEM team from Bielefeld, Germany.
14.05.12:
Team Meeting
We discussed why obesity is such a huge problem and how we could design our project to solve this problem. We agreed to make a bacteria that can survive in our stomach and transform sugar to inulin. the human body can't absorb inulin and furthermore inulin have a positive effect on the already existing `good` bacteria we have in our stomach.
Besides this, we also had an update from the groups of their whereabouts and achievements.
24.05.12:
Meeting with our supervisors
We talked about BioBrick techniques and what kind of materials we would need in the lab. We discussed how to proceed with the funding and when & how to get started in the lab.
Later that day, the team had an iGEM BBQ!
31.05.12:
Team Meeting
Not all of the team members were able to be at the meeting, so it was decided to do a detailed plan for the next meeting instead.
We made some changes in our project description and end goal, because our original one was pretty similar to a team from an earlier year.
04.06.12:
Team Meeting
07.06.12:
Team meeting with our supervisors
We had a meeting with our supervisor where we gave a short presentation of our new approach.
Afterwards one of our supervisors gave us a short lab tour.
18.06.12:
Lab introduction and team meeting
At the meeting, we talked about the plan for our lab in the future and what the smaller groups were doing (Video, funding, wiki etc.).
26.06.12:
Team Meeting
03-04.07.12:
Teacher’s workshop in Paris
None of our supervisors were available for the workshop in Paris, so they decided to send three of our team members instead.
05.07.12:
First day in the lab!
See our "Notebook" under "Lab Work"
06.07.12:
First draft of the wiki was done!
16.07.12:
Team meeting with our supervisors
Project description
21.07.12:
iGEM Party!
24.07.12:
Team Meeting
We decided to make a group for the human practices. We also started to look into the deadlines for the beginning of September. The podcast group had some interviews coming up, so we looked at their questions together.
02.08.12:
Team Meeting
06.08.12:
Team Meeting
09.08.12:
Team Meeting
We had had some problems with our accounts and the economy at the university and we decided to ask for help.
The team from Uppsala had invited us to a Scandinavian meet-up and everybody was excited to go!
14.08.12:
Team Meeting
14-16.08.12:
Work days
The entire team met all three days to work together when there were breaks from the lab.
20.08.12:
Team Meeting
25-27.08.12:
Bielefeld!
About half of the team visited the iGEM team from Bielefeld, Germany. You can read more about this on our outreach/collaboration page under human practices.
28.08.12:
Team Meeting
01-03.09-12:
Uppsala!
We went to the Scandinavian meet-up in Uppsala.
04.09.12:
Team meeting with our supervisors
We started out with a short summary of how far we were with our lab work and what our plan for the next couple of steps was. We also discussed how we were going to do the modeling.
We talked about the upcoming deadlines and what needed to be done for them to be finished and submitted.
In addition to this, we also booked times for our practice session at the Regional Jamboree.
05.09.12:
The News! (TV2 Fyn)
A news station from Denmark came and made a short feature of us for the local evening news.
10.09.12:
Team Meeting
Our team t-shirts arrived!
12-13.09.12:
The Fair
We had a stand at the “Start of the academic year”-fair. Read more about this under our human practices. (link)
16-17.09.12:
Dinner
The participants from earlier iGEM SDU teams and our supervisors made dinner for the team so we wouldn’t have to worry about it during lab!
17.09.12 :
Team Meeting
The video about GMO was done! Also our supervisors visited us in the lab to look at our project.
