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From 2012hs.igem.org

NOTEBOOK

Finding Our Idea

Our Team meets every Thursday from 2-4pm. Below you will find summaries of our meetings, as well as links to the agenda lists.

10/4/11- We are introduced to the concept of iGEM, and set up a relative calender of when we would have meetings. We received a packet on synthetic biology, the Eau d'coli lab procedure, and our Lab Safety contacts to be returned the next week.

10/11/11 - Sign ups were held for positions within the team (Liaison, Secretary, Media Specialist, Lab Manager, Public Relations,and Treasurer. We also went over past iGEM projects, explored the iGEM website, and went over the Eau d'coli lab notes in preparation for the lab next week.

10/18/11- We collected data for the Eau d'coli lab using our spectrophotometer (Spec 20) and began analysis of our data.

10/25/11- More analysis of Eau d'coli lab results and data, and exploring the meaning of the results.

11/10/11- Individual positions given assignments (such as a newspaper article, fundraising ideas, etc). Smell tests were done on samples of Eau d'coli cells at different growth phases and from different samples, translated our data, and viewed a student-made PowerPoint on the meaning of our results so far. We also explored the BioBuilder site and Parts Registry.

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12/23/11-

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3/1/12-

3/8/12-

3/15/12- Our project description was the focus of our meeting... What should be our project title? --should we be boring and say what it does-- what about "An olfactory system for the detection of carbon monoxide"-- should it start with " E. COLi factory:"-- Our final choice is.... "E. COLfactory: A smell test for the detection of carbon monoxide."

3/22/12- As Spring sports begin, we are experiencing a decline in team member attendance to our meetings. Should we consider supplementing our after school meetings with early morning as well? On a high note... we received a generous donation in the amount of $150 from Granite Ridge Energy to help supplement our fundraising efforts! Thank you for your contribution!!!!

3/29/12- We are trying to find a way to safely produce a controlled amount of CO in a lab. We found an experiment online that produced CO using sulfuric acid and formic acid ( H2SO4(l) + HCOOH(l) CO(g) + H2SO4.H2O(l) ) the lab procedure is found here: http://mattson.creighton.edu/CO/index.html

4/5/12-

4/12/12- Today we worked on making our wiki look pretty, researching our genetic circuit, and determining the safety and practicality of using CO in the school. We found an online site NorLab which sold calibration gases and equipment. They sold various quantities of 200ppm and 50ppm CO. According to an online representative, both of these quantities are safe to use and would require no special chamber to use it. They sent us a File:MSDS for CO. We found that when CO detectors are exposed to low concentrations of CO (100ppm)the detector will not sound for 10s of minutes. When the ppm is 400 or greater, the detector will sound in a few minutes. The purpose of this is to mimic the uptake of CO in the body while preventing false alarms due to natural fluctuation.

4/19/12- APRIL Vacation

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6/28/12-

Agenda List

Click here to see our CREATING THE GENETIC CIRCUIT page

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