Team:Northwestern/07 15

Notebook

Friday, July 15th

Agenda:

  • Write travel grants
  • Familiarize with iGEM sandbox
  • Research origin incompatibility
  • Redesign GFP fusion
  • Research refolding in periplasm after translocation
  • Design gRNA construct
  • Email sponsors
  • Website work
  • Familiarize with Simulink
  • Write website content

Tasks:

Michelle

  • Researched funding
  • Origin incompatibility research

Paul

  • Discussed GFP fusion changes
  • Made primers for adding mCherry to ends of GFP fusions

Sam

  • Looked further into conference travel grants
  • Researched Tat and Sec mechanisms

Shu

  • Investigated reporter proteins
  • Read papers about mechanisms of tat and sec pathways
  • Looked into giant jamboree hotel and flight

Tasfia

  • Protein folding research