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Team:Dundee/Notebook
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Notebook
Week One
Biology
The first week for the biologists was a general introduction to the ways of the lab. We were given a health and safety briefing and attended a health and safety seminar (an experience that would terrify any undergrad new in the lab). The team was taken through all the experiments that would be crucial for the project and a general plan of attack was devised. The main achievements of this week were the production of competent DH5α E. coli cells; purification and amplification of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 chromosomal DNA and digestion of pUNI-PROM with EcoRI and BamHI or XbaI BamHI.
Maths
The Mathematics team began by looking at common modelling methods in biology. After some research, we started to piece together a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) representing the populations of E. coli and C. difficile using logistic growth models.
Software
The team created a template Blog website and Twitter account. To provide a graphical representation of the project, existing software modelling options were investigated to ascertain whether an existing tool could provide suitable functionality or if a bespoke solution would be preferable. Work commenced on an Android framework for a suite of mobile utilities that will be developed over the course of the project.
The first week for the biologists was a general introduction to the ways of the lab. We were given a health and safety briefing and attended a health and safety seminar (an experience that would terrify any undergrad new in the lab). The team was taken through all the experiments that would be crucial for the project and a general plan of attack was devised. The main achievements of this week were the production of competent DH5α E. coli cells; purification and amplification of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 chromosomal DNA and digestion of pUNI-PROM with EcoRI and BamHI or XbaI BamHI.
Maths
The Mathematics team began by looking at common modelling methods in biology. After some research, we started to piece together a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) representing the populations of E. coli and C. difficile using logistic growth models.
Software
The team created a template Blog website and Twitter account. To provide a graphical representation of the project, existing software modelling options were investigated to ascertain whether an existing tool could provide suitable functionality or if a bespoke solution would be preferable. Work commenced on an Android framework for a suite of mobile utilities that will be developed over the course of the project.
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