Team:Imperial College London/Notebook/July 5

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Today we started with a briefing from Frank where the main action points of the day were discussed. These included creating a cleaner and more standardized wiki code as to ease future editing as well as determining which projects that we had each researched the previous day could be a viable project. We also agreed to only use HTML code when writing in the wiki.

"Wiki Rules" were established by Frank:

1) You do not talk about wiki editing
2) You do not talk about wiki editing
3) All files are to be uploaded with the name : ICL_Exact_Description_of_File_with_a_number
4) Keep the formatting the same on every page
5) DO NOT change content that someone else has uploaded without talking to them first
6) Please always upload in HTML, not Wiki Formatting
7) Try and make your content look like the other content on the page

We established roles for everyone in the team that they will need to fulfil during the project:
Rebekka - Stocks supplies protocols
Nick - Human Practices
Ming - Collaboration
Yuanwei - Wiki
Frank - Software/hardware
Chris - Parts characterisation
Nikki - Cloning
Si - Modelling
Nina - Photo/Media/Film

We spent around an hour or two clearing up and getting to know the HTML language. At around 11, three students from the RCA came to talk about their projects. Coby presented his ideas of growing furniture as well as trying to recreate his grandfather's psyche in a mouse. Pei-Ying presented her projects; using smallpox vaccines as a form of prevention against future terrorist attacks, nano diets where all the basic dietary requirements (vitamins, monosaccharides, amino acids, etc) are measured to the exact amount needed and a strange device that would store the voice of another human being if you were to touch them. CJ introduced us to several artists like Orlan and their ideas of which

After this presentation we discussed our ideas with the students of the RCA over a lunch at Eastside.We continued brainstorming and decided that this idea might be possible though the use of vesicles, however, it is no longer a priority project.

We have decided to split the team into 3 teams. Nicola, Nikki and Rebekka will be working on the prodigiosin pigment. Si, Nina and Yuanwei will be working on trying to improve on a bacterial hard drive that has already been tried in past iGEM projects. Frank, Ming and Chris will be working on the anti-venom idea. We will also try to use a little time to come up with more problems we could try to solve tomorrow.

(Entry by Frank and Chris, edited by Rebekka)