Team:Cambridge/iGEM2010 Presentation

iGEM 2010 Talk

A few of the things that were said in the talk on the 28th of June.

• 1st Week
  • Brainstorm many ideas
  • Filter down to ~10 and research more thoroughly
    • Avoid Idea Ownership
  • Decide on project by end of 1st week (as in the 1st wk after crash course)
• Come up with a rough plan of the summer
• Have daily team meeting to keep everyone up to speed with everything
• Meet with supervisors once a week
  • presentation of the weeks' work
  • have _specific_ questions ready in advance
• Lab work
  • You will need to make competent cells whatever you do. It's cold
  • Come up with a common numbering system. Document it. Have either a folder or a google docs spreadsheet describing what everything is and where everything is.
  • Protocol folder (online or in an actual folder) (I'm about to add it to the wiki)
  • pair up engineers and biologists initially
  • build stepwise and test as you go along
  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle KISS]
• keep and eye on the prise
• Get feedback on the project from normal people (not just scientists)