Team:Wageningen UR/Notebook/Team
Team Notebook
By: iGEM Wageningen
This notebook contains the timeline of our iGEM journey, with some milestones and events in which we participated.
February
Week -11 (25th of February – 3rd of March)
Kick off meeting iGEM, with a presentation of the Wageningen 2017 iGEM team. Students filled in an application form.
March
Week -10 (4th of March – 10th of March)
Start brainstorming projects at the weekly Tuesday Meetings.
Week -9 (11th of March – 17th of March)
Brainstorming projects.
Week -8 (18th of March – 24th of March)
Brainstorming projects.
Week -7 (25th of March – 31st of March)
Brainstorming projects.
April
Week -6 (1st of April – 7th of April)
Brainstorming projects.
Week -5 (8th of April – 14th of April)
Decided on two projects: phages for treatment of food and phage therapy against Xylella fastidiosa.
Week -4 (15th of April – 21st of April)
Formed the final student team.
Week -3 (22nd of April – 28th of April)
Decided upon a final project: Xylencer (phage and divided the team roles among the students.
Week -2 (29th of April – 5th of May)
Joined the European meetup in Bonn.
May
Week -1 (6th of May – 12th of May)
Finished our last exams before starting full time on iGEM.
Week 1 (13th of May – 19th of May)
Got our own office and started working fulltime. Divided subprojects among the team members.
Week 2 (20th of May – 26th of May)
We joined the Dutch Biotechnology Conference and the BCF career event.
Week 3 (27th of May – 2nd of June)
Gave an interactive lecture at the Dutch National Biology Olympiad.
June
Week 4 (3rd of June – 9th of June)
Working hard!
Week 5 (10th of June – 16th of June)
We joined the European meetup organized by the Rathenau Institute and RIVM.
Week 6 (17th of June – 23rd of June)
We presented our project for all members of the laboratories we are associated with.
Week 7 (24th of June – 30th of June)
Visited the HollandBIO biotechnology congress.
July
Week 8 (1st of July – 7th of July)
Working hard!
Week 9 (8th of July – 14th of July)
Joined the 13th Annual Biotechnological Congress (BAC) in Madrid
Week 10 (15th of July – 21st of July)
Working hard!
Week 11 (22nd of July – 28th of July)
We had fun at the European Meetup in Paris.
Week 12 (29th of July – 4th of August)
Presented our project at the Freemasonry in Enschede.
August
Week 13 (5th of August – 11th of August)
Presented our project at the European Mensa Meetup
Week 14 (12th of August – 18th of August)
Joined the Dutch iGEM meetup.
Week 15 (19th of August – 25th of August)
Presented iGEM and our project to new first year bachelor and master students.
Week 16 (26th of August – 1st of September)
Working hard!
September
Week 17 (2nd of September – 8th of September)
Working hard!
Week 18 (9th of September – 15th of September)
Working hard!
Week 19 (16th of September – 22nd of September)
Received a GO at our GO/No-GO meeting.
Week 20 (23rd of September – 29th of September)
Joined the SafeChassis Biosafety workshop.
Week 21 (30th of September – 6th of October)
Presented our project at the Weekend of Science.
October
Week 22 (7th of October – 13th of October)
Working hard!
Week 23 (14th of October – 20th of October)
Wiki writing and final experiments
Week 24 (21st of October – 27th of October)
Wiki freeze and joining the Benelux Mini Jamboree in Eindhoven.