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| + | <ul>Week 1- | ||
| + | <li>Started off discussing our topic of bacterial infections and brainstorming how we could target them; settled on RNA interference.</li> | ||
| + | <li>Split the team into 2 groups, wet team (Matthew, Bartosz, Albert) and dry team (Mia, Beth, Darryl).</li> | ||
| + | <li>Decided what each team had to do for that week</li> | ||
| + | <li>Started with general research on our chosen infections (Cholera and Shigellosis)</li> | ||
| + | <li>Darryl started and completed learning basic HTML and CSS via tutorials on the site Codecadamy, then began the initial stages of the wiki so as to get to grips with it.</li> | ||
| + | </ul> | ||
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| + | Week 2- | ||
| + | <ul> | ||
| + | <li>The dry team began to contact various people/organisations: | ||
| + | <ul><li>Colalife</li> | ||
| + | <li>Mercy Ships</li> | ||
| + | <li>Water Aid</li> | ||
| + | <li>Lifeline Express</li></ul></li> | ||
| + | <li>Had our first meeting about maths modelling and discussed how we could incorporate it into our project.</li> | ||
| + | <li>Further developed wiki.</li> | ||
| + | </ul> | ||
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| + | Week 3- | ||
| + | Had a phone call with Brian Walshe of Mercy Ships | ||
| + | Started organisation for Northern meet up: | ||
| + | Began developing presentation content and layout | ||
| + | Work began on poster | ||
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| + | Week 4- | ||
| + | Spoke to Rob Porter (prof. of Microbiology) via email. | ||
| + | Planned a skype call with Simon Berry of Colalife. | ||
| + | Contacted British red cross. | ||
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| + | Week 5- | ||
| + | Attended the Edinburgh Northern meet up & presented our project there, to which we were met with excellent feedback. | ||
| + | Carried on working in the lab and progressing with our presentation. | ||
| + | Further development of poster. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Week 6- | ||
| + | Contacted British Pharmaceutical Society | ||
| + | Contacted Mark Mcculloch (Army Doctor) | ||
| + | Carried on with making our poster for the UK meet up. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Week 7- | ||
| + | Planned to meet up with Mark | ||
| + | Finished poster | ||
| + | Carried on with our wiki content | ||
| + | Received our FBI sunglasses and pens. | ||
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| + | Week 8- | ||
| + | Attended the UK meet up in London – presented our talk and our poster to multiple UK iGEM teams. | ||
| + | Got our hoodies and t-shirts. | ||
| + | Had our agent photoshoot. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Whilst we may now be back at school and so not working on our project full-time, we are still putting a large amount of time and effort into it. Wiki development continues both in its design and content, all of us continue to work on the presentation, other teams are still being collaborated with, people and organisations are still being contacted, videos are being planned and outreach to younger students is underway; overall things are still moving and the gears in our brains are still very much in motion towards our goal of having our project be the best that we can make it. | ||
| + | </p> | ||
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Revision as of 22:28, 21 September 2016
Notebook
Wet Team
Dry Team
- Week 1-
- Started off discussing our topic of bacterial infections and brainstorming how we could target them; settled on RNA interference.
- Split the team into 2 groups, wet team (Matthew, Bartosz, Albert) and dry team (Mia, Beth, Darryl).
- Decided what each team had to do for that week
- Started with general research on our chosen infections (Cholera and Shigellosis)
- Darryl started and completed learning basic HTML and CSS via tutorials on the site Codecadamy, then began the initial stages of the wiki so as to get to grips with it.
Week 2-
- The dry team began to contact various people/organisations:
- Colalife
- Mercy Ships
- Water Aid
- Lifeline Express
- Had our first meeting about maths modelling and discussed how we could incorporate it into our project.
- Further developed wiki.
Week 3- Had a phone call with Brian Walshe of Mercy Ships Started organisation for Northern meet up: Began developing presentation content and layout Work began on poster Week 4- Spoke to Rob Porter (prof. of Microbiology) via email. Planned a skype call with Simon Berry of Colalife. Contacted British red cross. Week 5- Attended the Edinburgh Northern meet up & presented our project there, to which we were met with excellent feedback. Carried on working in the lab and progressing with our presentation. Further development of poster. Week 6- Contacted British Pharmaceutical Society Contacted Mark Mcculloch (Army Doctor) Carried on with making our poster for the UK meet up. Week 7- Planned to meet up with Mark Finished poster Carried on with our wiki content Received our FBI sunglasses and pens. Week 8- Attended the UK meet up in London – presented our talk and our poster to multiple UK iGEM teams. Got our hoodies and t-shirts. Had our agent photoshoot. Whilst we may now be back at school and so not working on our project full-time, we are still putting a large amount of time and effort into it. Wiki development continues both in its design and content, all of us continue to work on the presentation, other teams are still being collaborated with, people and organisations are still being contacted, videos are being planned and outreach to younger students is underway; overall things are still moving and the gears in our brains are still very much in motion towards our goal of having our project be the best that we can make it.
