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Diary

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Contents 1 Week 3: 25th July to 31st July 1.1 Monday, 25th July 1.2 Tuesday, 26th July 1.3 Wednesday, 27th July 1.4 Thursday, 28th July 1.5 Friday, 29th July

Week 3: 25th July to 31st July

Monday, 25th July

We arrived at Norwich for the UK iGEM meet-up. We presented our project to the other UK teams and gained valuable feedback. The other teams presented their projects as well and we gained new insights into their projects. Many parts of their presentations were pretty relevant to our project. For instance, one team was making a kill switch which we would also need as part of our project. There was a great exchange of ideas and opinions and it surely was a fruitful day for us as we gathered advice and learned from others.

In the evening, we mingled with students from the other teams and had loads of fun activities. After that, we had a great time and team bonding session at the clubs.

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Tuesday, 26th July

This was the second day of the UK iGEM meet-up. We had four interesting talks on synthetic biology. In particular, we picked up many good points from one of the talks on human practice. It reminded us of the many ethical issues and responsibilities that we bear and should take into account into our project as we dealt with synthetic biology. Another talk by James Brown from Cambridge was also very relevant and useful to our project. We were very impressed by some of the great images of plant root growth and the modelling of the individual root cells. Ming and Rebecca also successfully collected the seeds that we need for our project. On the train back to London, we went through many of the great ideas and information that we had gathered during the meet-up. We also drew up plans and set up experiment timetables for the week.

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Wednesday, 27th July

Today we had a meeting with the professors to update them on our progress. We also had the RCA group with us to talk about their ideas. The main feedback from the meeting was that we need to figure out our kill switch or containment mechanism asap for the human practices so that it can actually inform our design rather than be tagged on. This is for the containment of bacteria in soil as well as the issue of horizontal gene transfer. We also found out that Prof Kitney knows everyone.

Koby and CJ showed us an amazing logo designed by Koby. CJ did loads of research into public policy and media around GMO, which is on the blog now embedded in our wiki.

We had good news form Ming today, our baby Arabidopsis are ready to be experimented on! We also recieved the YFP seeds from Nottingham.

Chris and Nick started work in the lab, preparing plates etc. fun fun. We finally finished the questions to email to Claire.

I had sushi for lunch.

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Thursday, 28th July

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Friday, 29th July

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