Hey guys,
I’m Prima and I’m back on the show again!! This has been a very successful week for iGEM Calgary. I’d like to specially thank VWR and Corning Life Sciences for sponsoring our project. Both of these generous contributors have been recognized under the Bronze category of our sponsors.
The marketing team also finished, edited and began to distribute the July newsletter to all companies. This newsletter highlights the achievements and progress of iGEM Calgary for the month of July. Aside from that, Jamie, Fahd, Jeremy and I are slaving away with our hard core marketing responsibilities! We followed up with numerous companies who are considering our sponsorship package, set up meetings and thanked all other companies for considering our project.
We have an exciting week coming up as the team prepares for its next ultimate fundraising project: iGEM Bake sale trinity! This time we’ll come prepared with double the treats, triple the advertisements and of course 15 talented iGEMers to make Wednesday August 5th a once in a life time event!! Come devour the ambrosia!!! We have high expectations for next week and if all else goes well, iGEM Calgary will celebrate with a end of the year team get together. That’s about it! Peace out!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Blogging about writing...in the lab part of the project
Welcome Jamie to the guest blogger position once again! Fun times.
So I plan on doing this post in 216 words or less because I need to save my daily typing quota for my paper ( =( sorry guys).
Anyways, Carol is still tanking along the path towards constructing the variable promoter library.
Vicki is chu chu-ing on the rails as she works hard on her paper. Emily too. They're both chu chu-ing. Except Emily might be going in the opposite direction as her spatial orientation seems a bit off (see non-existent post about B0015-J13002-luxOD47E construct). But nonetheless we are moving along! Just like Theodore.Thank you Emily for the correction. Vicki and Emily are like Thomas the Train, not Theodore the tugboat. My apologies for any confusion, pain and injuries resulting from this mistake.
Jeremy is errr... driving (?? I ran out of cool references to transportation) along, working on his paper and finishing up the signalling circuit.
Kevin is steaming away (he is a steamboat :O) as he figures out his reporter circuit and works with his rainbow colored assortment of fluorescent proteins.
Myself? I am sitting. At home. Writing my paper. First complete draft to be done in about 2 hours (yes it took me over 4 weeks to write it...but I was not working on it the ENTIRE time. Just 99.9% of it.)
In continuation of my last blog, I do not enjoy extracurriculars. Just being cool. It's really time consuming.
EDIT: Hi Jamie. I would just like to let you and our readers know that I finished my circuit today, my ethics paper draft, and my notebook updates. I hope everyone's had a productive time (in lab) today :)
<3 from Emily
So I plan on doing this post in 216 words or less because I need to save my daily typing quota for my paper ( =( sorry guys).
Anyways, Carol is still tanking along the path towards constructing the variable promoter library.
Vicki is chu chu-ing on the rails as she works hard on her paper. Emily too. They're both chu chu-ing. Except Emily might be going in the opposite direction as her spatial orientation seems a bit off (see non-existent post about B0015-J13002-luxOD47E construct). But nonetheless we are moving along! Just like Theodore.Thank you Emily for the correction. Vicki and Emily are like Thomas the Train, not Theodore the tugboat. My apologies for any confusion, pain and injuries resulting from this mistake.
Jeremy is errr... driving (?? I ran out of cool references to transportation) along, working on his paper and finishing up the signalling circuit.
Kevin is steaming away (he is a steamboat :O) as he figures out his reporter circuit and works with his rainbow colored assortment of fluorescent proteins.
Myself? I am sitting. At home. Writing my paper. First complete draft to be done in about 2 hours (yes it took me over 4 weeks to write it...but I was not working on it the ENTIRE time. Just 99.9% of it.)
In continuation of my last blog, I do not enjoy extracurriculars. Just being cool. It's really time consuming.
EDIT: Hi Jamie. I would just like to let you and our readers know that I finished my circuit today, my ethics paper draft, and my notebook updates. I hope everyone's had a productive time (in lab) today :)
<3 from Emily
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Modeling: Learning how to write
Hi everyone, its Carol again!
This week for modeling, we focused mainly on writing up several ways to characterize the AI-2 signaling system. The characterization methods that we decided to explore are the following:
1. Static Performance
2. Dynamic Response
3. Response Time
4. Robustness
The robustness part of characterizing the system would be the most interesting. The degree of robustness depends on how sensitive the system is to fluctuations and changes. If this part of the signaling system can be explored in more detail, it will be an advantageous component to our project. We spent the past week summarizing this in paper format. I am currently working on a promoter library, which will play a huge role in exploring the expression of luxPQ. Once the circuits are done, some of these experiments can be done in a few days. We will hopefully by the end this summer have some characterization done. Stay tuned! Signing off now, peace!
This week for modeling, we focused mainly on writing up several ways to characterize the AI-2 signaling system. The characterization methods that we decided to explore are the following:
1. Static Performance
2. Dynamic Response
3. Response Time
4. Robustness
The robustness part of characterizing the system would be the most interesting. The degree of robustness depends on how sensitive the system is to fluctuations and changes. If this part of the signaling system can be explored in more detail, it will be an advantageous component to our project. We spent the past week summarizing this in paper format. I am currently working on a promoter library, which will play a huge role in exploring the expression of luxPQ. Once the circuits are done, some of these experiments can be done in a few days. We will hopefully by the end this summer have some characterization done. Stay tuned! Signing off now, peace!
Friday, July 24, 2009
SynthETHICS
Hello, Stefan here. Second Lifer extraordinaire and now official iGEM ethicist. You might be wondering what’s been going on in our Ethics department. Well, you’re in luck, because I’m about to tell you! Mandy, Emily, Fahd and I have been keeping busy by reading a few papers on synthetic biology. These include papers about the economics of synthetic biology, bioterrorism, and general ethical issues regarding the field. The ideas expressed in these papers will be used to elucidate both sides of ethical debates surrounding our project and to present evidence for our statements. For our project, the issues that we will look at will be: Environmental, Ethical, Economical, Legal, and Societal (E3LS). We will also take into account pre-cautionary perspectives (things are bad until considered safe) and pro-actionary perspectives (good until proven otherwise). Our paper will involve two (or more) applications of our signaling system that will be evaluated through E3LS. Can’t wait to get working on it!
In other news… We are thinking of holding an ethics conference in Second Life. We plan to invite many guests to share their thoughts as well as other people involved in iGEM. However, this probably be done in late September. Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you in future updates.
In other news… We are thinking of holding an ethics conference in Second Life. We plan to invite many guests to share their thoughts as well as other people involved in iGEM. However, this probably be done in late September. Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you in future updates.
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