5/11/15 - Over the weekend we intensively studied immunotherapy and its cancer related applications. We thought about trying to create an organism that would maybe aid in the production of T and B-cells.

5/14/15 - Decided that we didn’t have the proper resources to adequately test anything related to cancer research so we shifted gears. Some of us revisited the Celiac’s disease idea and tried finding a site in the recognition of gluten in an attempt to find a spot to repress the response. The rest then went back to the pH sensing system. We saw this competition as a driving force to construct more parts to expand the registry rather than to create a stand alone project, so creating a pH sensing system could prove useful in other applications.

5/16/15 - After more investigation we found that other pH sensors had been submitted to the Registry in the past but none were directly linked to transcription factors. So our focused turned to understanding nature’s way of sensing pH.

5/20/15 - Reconvened to discuss findings. Only a few potential candidates were found but none seemed realistic. We decided to table the idea and keep brainstorming and return to this idea if we were unable to come up with anything else.

5/23/15 - Entertained the idea of biofuel production. The team went an investigated potential molecules we would produce and the research that has already been done in this competition and out.

5/28/15 - Started thinking more big picture about the goals of the synthetic biology and what kind of problems it can realistically solve at this point in time. We thought about how it is that such small organisms can have larger effects on society. This idea of scaling up biology bot us thinking about bioreactors.

5/11/15 - Over the weekend we intensively studied immunotherapy and its cancer related applications. We thought about trying to create an organism that would maybe aid in the production of T and B-cells.

5/14/15 - Decided that we didn’t have the proper resources to adequately test anything related to cancer research so we shifted gears. Some of us revisited the Celiac’s disease idea and tried finding a site in the recognition of gluten in an attempt to find a spot to repress the response. The rest then went back to the pH sensing system. We saw this competition as a driving force to construct more parts to expand the registry rather than to create a stand alone project, so creating a pH sensing system could prove useful in other applications.

5/16/15 - After more investigation we found that other pH sensors had been submitted to the Registry in the past but none were directly linked to transcription factors. So our focused turned to understanding nature’s way of sensing pH.

5/20/15 - Reconvened to discuss findings. Only a few potential candidates were found but none seemed realistic. We decided to table the idea and keep brainstorming and return to this idea if we were unable to come up with anything else.

5/23/15 - Entertained the idea of biofuel production. The team went an investigated potential molecules we would produce and the research that has already been done in this competition and out.

5/28/15 - Started thinking more big picture about the goals of the synthetic biology and what kind of problems it can realistically solve at this point in time. We thought about how it is that such small organisms can have larger effects on society. This idea of scaling up biology bot us thinking about bioreactors.