Team:Northwestern/Notebook/Week1

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