February
- We held our first meeting with the new members.
March
- Brainstorming for the project.
- We realized that everybody in the team is interested in biomedical applications of synthetic biology.
- We arranged workshops for the new members.
April
- Safety training for the team.
- Experimental training for the new members.
- We started to seek sponsorships.
- We started literature search based on metabolic disorders and therapeutics.
May
- A survey on metabolic disorders were prepared and published.
- We started to do comprehensive literature research for Diabetes Mellitus.
- Potential insulin analogs such as viral insulin like peptides were evaluated.
- We held a meeting with Prof. Dr. Okan Bülent Yıldız, from the Department of Internal Medicine Endocrinology and Metabolism of Hacettepe University.
- We decided to make insulin analog secreting probiotic bacteria as our project subject based on the ideas we get from Prof. Dr. Okan Bülent Yıldız and public survey results.
June
- Our team joined to diabetes patient education sessions at Hacettepe University.
- The team met in the lab for the first time.
- We started to clone sfGFP and TEV protease.
- Started to mathematical modelling.
- Our team wrote a story book on synthetic biology for kids. We sent an English version of our story to the teams contacted us. The teams that translated our story into their languages.
- We designed a quiet book for preschool kids to demonstrate basic principles of synthetic biology.
- We started to our journal clubs.
July
- We initiated a collaboration. We sent an English version of our story book to other teams. The teams translated our story into their languages.
- Our IDT constructs arrived and we finished the cloning of them.
August
- We made part characterization.
- The cloning of all constructs were completed.
- Double transformation were done to B strain.
- We started to induction and kinetic measurement experiments.
- We checked for the surface displays of our constructs.
September
- We got our sponsorships from Traveyo company and Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities Foundation.
- We arranged a Skype meeting with ULaVerne team.
- Protein purification for our working constructs.
October
- We visited 4th grade students to introduce the concept of synthetic biology. We demonstrated them the basics of synthetic biology with our quiet book and the Washington iGEM Teams’ activity booklet.
- Supported our modelling with the experimental data.
- We collaborated with IIT Madras iGEM team for their ‘Language Project 2.0’.
- We filmed a short parody music clip.
- We visited Başkent Deaf Sports Foundation and explain them to our project with the grammar of Turkish Sign Language.
- Finished the wiki.