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Team:Northwestern/Notebook/Week1
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Day 1 - Monday June 13, 2011
- Held a meeting to determine the different administrative roles and tasks that each team member will perform.
- Took inventory of all the supplies in the lab and began organizing our benches.
- Visited a graduate student in Professor Leonard's lab and learned the procedure to make chemically competent cells, which will allow us to begin the transformation process.
- Most of the day was spent on various tasks to get the project up and running, such as setting up the wiki and learning how to autoclave.
Day 2 - Tuesday, June 14 2011
- Obtained some TOP10 cells and plated them to begin the process of producing a stock solution, which will give us a continuous supply of chemically competent cells.
- Used competent cells to begin the transformation process
- Finalized primary idea for project definition and created a timeline
- Continued website design process
