Team Meeting
23/2: First team meeting organized by iGEM Thessaloniki 2018 - Getting to know each other – Team planning and brief sharing of responsibilities.
Team:Thessaloniki/Calendar
Public Speech
7/3: Participation at the conference: Biotechnology, a versatile science.
Brainstorming
8/3: Intense Brainstorming sessions – Preparation of our project’s plan and budget analysis.
Fundraising
4/4: Presentation of our team to the Vice Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Professor Laopoulos Theodoros, who supported us financially by providing the registration fee.
Industry
5/4: Presentation of our team to the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas – CERTH, meeting with Dr. Konstantopoulos Athanasios.
Public Speech
14/4: Participation at the Conference of Undergraduate Research organized by PaTh
(Physicists of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
9/5: PParticipation at the Conference held by the Hellenic Company of Biological Sciences.
First Greek Teams Collaboration
10/5: Participation at the Scientific Congress of Hellenic Medical Students in collaboration with iGEM Thessaly and iGEM Athens.
Reaching to society
12/5: Participation at the event: AUTH on Sundays organizing activities with children concerning Synthetic Biology.
Education
13-15/5: Participating at Volos Summer School of Human Genetics.
Reaching to the Scientific Community
14/5: Presentation of our work to Dr Sarigiannis Dimosthenis receiving valuable feedback–
Arrival of our iGEM kit
20/5: Official presentation of our project at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Research and
Innovation, KEDEK.
Collaboration
29/5: First meeting with iGEM Groningen.
Laboratory Facilities
6/6: Dr Mosialos Georgios, Professor of the Department of Genetics Development and Molecular Biology of School of Biology agreed to grant us his lab in order to work there for all the time needed to complete our project.
Brainstorming
11/6: Brainstorming session for our Human Practices.
12/6: Concluding on our project name and logo.
Industry
2/7: Attendance in the demonstration of a new device of RT-PCR by Dr Benzonana Laura- brainstorming on our project methods.
Fundraising
2/7: Official presentation of our project at the Research Genetics Cancer Centre, Dr Papasotiriou Ioannis accepted to be our grand sponsor and supporter.
Industry
3/7: Meeting with the pharmaceutical company Novartis.
Public Speech
4/7: Organizing our Project Reveal Event: Presenting our Project to peers and professors.
Biothics&Biosafety
15/7: Meeting with the National Commission of Bioethics in Athens.
16/7: Meeting with the Hellenic Company of Melanoma Research in Athens.
Reaching to the Scientific Community
23/7: Discussion and troubleshooting with James Parkin for piperine python package.
28/7: Discussion with Dr Kolocouris Antonio concerning dry lab issues.
Lab Work
1/8: Intense lab work sessions: testing NFkB p65 with our toolkit & Optimization of our model.
Outreach
30/7: Interview in the tv live show on ERT3.
13/8 Featured on the tv live show on SKAI tv.
Video Production
9/9: Our iGEM BOX: Production of The Box.
Reaching to society
7-15/9: Participation of our team in the 84 th TIF Helexpo Exhibition.
28/9: Presentation of our work to high school students at local scout community.
Lab Work
10-21/10: Finalizing our wet lab experiments and record our results on our wiki page.
Giant Jamboree
31/10-04/11: Attended the Giant Jamboree and presented our project.