Paris visit

Hackspace Yeping finished planning the workshops for the collaboration with the London Hackspace. We're really looking forward to the workshops starting on Wednesday!

Darmstadt Collaboration

Sponsume The crowdfundraising website posted a short article Philipp wrote about science fundraising for short-term projects like iGEM: http://www.sponsume.com/blog/university-college-london-igems-experiment-crowdfunding

Lab clean-up

Practice Presentation Today the team presented to our supervisors and received some good feedback. Overall we really need to improve the clarity of our presentation, it's hard to concisely summarise a summer of work.

Hackspace Day 1

iGEM connection'

Hackspace Day 2 Together with the hackers, Bethan helped to build a shaker to agitate our cells overnight. This involved using a number of equipment only available at the Hackspace, including hand saw, glue gun and motor. The biohackers were very keen to give us an electronics tutorial as we build our circuit for the shaker. A variable resistor was included in the circuit design so we can control the speed of the shaker.

Hackspace Day 3 Our shaker from yesterday was still alive today and the liquid cultures in falcon tubes are all cloudy showing growth! Together with the biohackers we ran a 1% gel of the PCR product from yesterday using their DIY gel tray. Their tray didn't have a cover, you can also see how the wires are connected! Using a hand held UV filter and UV light, we visualized our gel. The PCR has worked! Gel shows the expected band at 2070bp. PCR clean-up is to be done at the UCL workshops since the centrifuge at Hackspace is only estimated to be able to do 5000rpm

Press C-lab published an exciting write-up of our 1st day at the Hackspace