Team:British Columbia/Notebook/Week 1

Brainstorming

Week 1: Jun 5-11

Week 2: Jun 12-18

Week 3: Jun 19-25

Week 4: Jun 26-Jul 2

Week 5: Jul 3-9

Week 6: Jul 10-16

Week 7: Jul 17-23

Week 8: Jul 24-30

Week 9: Jul 31-Aug 6

Week 10: Aug 7-13

Week 11: Aug 14-20

Week 12: Aug 21-27

Week 13: Aug 28-Sep 3

Week 14: Sep 4-10

Week 15: Sep 11-17

Week 16: Sep 18-28

Americas Jamboree!!!

Week 19: Oct 9-15

Leading up to the Finals!

Week 1: June 5-11

Lab Meeting - June 6

Great news! We've received funding from Service Canada: Summer Canada Jobs! Everyone is super stoked that we have money for travel expenses (Thank you Dr. Foster!).

During our lab meeting, we realized that there were illegal cut sites within our synthase genes and we now must remove these sites by introducing silent mutations via site-directed mutagenesis (SDM). Rafael, one of our beloved grad advisors gave a tutorial on PCR, SDM and primer design.

June 8

Albert (the post-doc in the Ellis Lab) gave the entire team a safety orientation of the lab. We can now start doing experiments!

June 10-11

Alina (grad advisor) walked through the yeast transformation protocol with the team (a day before she went on vacation in Singapore and Taiwan!).