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From 2011.igem.org

Morning, and the mini project teams design primers for the fusion/expression experiment the traditional way - with pen, paper and thought.

The mini-project teams present their fusion-targets to the group after lunch. Three interesting targets - fingers crossed they work (and if they don't perhaps a valuable lesson will have been learned about biological lab-work - to paraphrase our supervisor Jim, "biology doesn't work". This is swiftly followed by a long, but mercifully very interesting lecture on particularly weird behaviours observed in certain bacteria. It turns out not only to be interesting, but useful too, as a flurry of new ideas are sparked therefrom.

Our post-it table is closely approaching that critical density at which the chaos turns from the creative variety to the obfuscating; some idea-pruning will need to be done next week.

The whole group are looking forward to punting (with lashings of Pimms!) tomorrow. Hooray!