Team:UA Huntsville/Notebook

Notebook

March

Held interest meetings and recruited members

Registered as an iGEM team


April

Administrative work


May

Began weekly summer planning meetings

Brainstorming began on projects

Trained members in lab safety


June

Selected Cosmicoli as our project

Made first contact with our iGEM mentor


July

Hosted a professional communication workshop

hosted a fun Spirited Art Fundraiser

Received IR9-50-1 and Founder Delta_e14 from Cox Lab, reproduced literature results.

Designed Expression Systems for Dsup and CAHS


August

Registered for the Jamboree!

Initial experiments for transforming parts into vector chassis, MC1061.

Digestions and Test Ligations


September

Digestions and test Ligations

Started Ligations! Encountered troubles.


October

Ligations started using Red White Screening, led to isolation of likely pBAD/AraC-Dsup and pTet-CAHS.

Isolation and Dsup and CAHS expression systems.