A lot of meetings were held throughout the year in order to organize the entire team, keep an overview over the accomplishments and the many challenges we had to encounter and manage. In the beginning one weekly meeting was enough, later on the amount doubled and tripled. Here you can see a brief overview of what happened and what had to be discussed.
28.12.2018: Brainstorming for general topics
06.01.2019: Classification of research for various topics, first planning for the Dusseldorf Meet Up with talks and sponsoring, restriction of the topics to some areas including Synthetic Milk
10.01.2019: Limitation of the topics to three, further considerations on whether to develop projects on a perennial basis
14.01.2019: General financial matters, sponsoring ideas, further planning for the German Meetup, idea for the postcard project, further research for the topic suggestions
21.01.19: First contacts to the IGEM Team Berlin, initial planning for fairs / lectures, further planning for the German Meet Up, detailed elaboration of the topics
28.01.2019: Lectures on the topics worked out, allocation of laboratory space
04.02.2019: Planning for the IGEM Spring festival in Bonn, further planning for the German Meetup, elaboration of concepts for social media channels, definition of the theme on synthetic milk, first logo ideas
11.02.2019: Start of the laboratory work, discussion of the Medal Criteria, concept planning to the general strategy [7], considerations to necessity of the project in relation to other milk alternatives, elaboration of abstracts, synmylk as determination of the name
18.02.2019: Improvement of the abstracts, elaboration of the Synmylk logo, further sponsoring requests, Preparations for Meet Up, First practical implementation of cloning, Work on basic constructs begins
25.02.2019: Idea for the monthly newsletter and its exact structure, start of the postcard campaign, division into smaller project groups, brainstorming for working
07.03.2019: Meeting with professors for expertise, setting up the laboratory, inventory, planning for the March of Science, Labvolution, and collaboration with Danny Ducat
11.03.2019: Genes and constructs ordered, laboratory books introduced
18.03.2019: Poster planning, ideas for further presentations in the university, discussion of the survey for Synmylk
25.03.2019: Cooperation with Jülich, ideas for experiments in cyanos, App development for the Meetup begins, Weekly discussion of laboratory books begins
01.04.2019: Meeting with an expert for modelling
08.04.2019: Meeting with Knapp in Jülich, further elaboration of the modeling
15.04.2019: further suggestions from former IGEM members and other guests, planning for the rhetoric seminar as presentation training
23.04.2019: Planning for the presentation at Cyano, collaboration with Stockholm, Skype Meeting with Perfect Day
29.04.2019: Start of work on the wiki, collaboration with Bielefeld on art exhibition
06.05.2019: Participation at the Spring Festival in Bonn, prize as best project, plasmids from Jülich have arrived to work
13.05.2019: Work on Wiki texts continues, art exhibition in Stockholm begins
20.05.2019: Completion of the survey
27.05.2019: Discussion and elaboration for the Promega Webinars, Promega's application at the Meetup and further collaboration
03.06.2019: Conversations with Legendairyfoods and GASB
12.06.2019: Conversation with Danny Ducat, Organizational matters
24.06.2019: Planning for Ceplas Friday, cooperation between the subgroups will be intensified to improve information exchange
01.07.2019: Cooperation with a secondary school: presentation of our project, preparation for the MeetUp on the next weekend, further planning of the cooperation with New Zealand
15.07.2019: Planning for a symposium / Düsseldorf talks future
31.07.2019: Work on the Wiki is intensified and continued ; Discussion of the Medal Criteria and the like
05.08.2019: Daily meeting at the University, preparations for the Cyano
19.08.2019: Further discussion with Legendairyfoods, elaboration of the parts pages
02.09.2019: Date with the UniRadio, evaluation of the survey, internal deadline to complete cronings
09.09.2019: Cooperation with the University of California davis with Opentrons
16.09.2019: Presentation at the Cyano, Participation in Night of Science, Work on the standards for short-chain fatty acids, Increased work on the biosensor
23.09.2019: Creation of the team banner, planning for Düsseldorf Talks Future, recapitulation of previous results
24.09.2019-21.10.2019 Making the Wiki and preparing for Boston
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