Unique ID	Short Text	Long Text	Start Date	End Date	Stream	Img
FirstMeeting	Our first meeting!	"Our first meeting was held in the library before the Christmas break. We were all very excited about iGEM and kicked it off by talking about the different ideas of potential projects everyone had. From then on, after the exam season, we carried on having weekly meetings consisting mostly of project topic brainstorming, trivial facts, and awkwardness."	01/12/2018	15/01/2019	General	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/f/fb/T--Manchester--NoteBook-InitalIdeas.png/448px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-InitalIdeas.png
ProjectDecided	We decided on Cutiful!	"By the beginning of April, we had a big meeting with our supervisors, Eriko and Rainer, where we presented our top three ideas and discussed their feasibility in relationship with iGEM. After a few minutes we decided, by majority, to go with the hair care idea. "	03/04/2019	03/04/2019	General	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/3/38/T--Manchester--NoteBook-FinalIdeas.png/522px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-FinalIdeas.png.gif
SocialPizza	Pizza Time!	"We also decided to start engaging with each other before getting into the lab. Therefore, we meet up for pizza in what became the first of many 'team bonding iGEM manchester meetups'. This first time we went out we had delicious pizza. (Since the person who wrote this was also the one to suggest the restaurant, the pizzas could not have been anything but delicious.)"	12/03/2019	12/03/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/e/e1/T--Manchester--NoteBook-Pizza.png/448px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-Pizza.png
Symposium	Synthetic Bio Symposium	"iGEM Manchester 2019 was invited to present a poster in a SynBio symposium in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. As a team, we created a poster in which we talked about both the overview of our project idea, as well as the inspiration we had for its selection. On the day we collected as much feedback as we could from experienced synthetic biologists, but we also got to know the MIB community and attended inspiring talks at the symposium. "	20/03/2019	20/03/2019	Outreach	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/9/9f/T--Manchester--NoteBook-Symposium.png/799px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-Symposium.png
FirstWeek	Our First Week At the MIB	"iGEM summer starts off with everyone completing the health & safety course in The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. Everyone is very excited (or pretends to be) and with exams over, we are 100% dedicated to iGEM (or that's what we say when our supervisors are nearby). The health & safety course is given by one of our post-doctorate instructors, Gajendar. He gives us a tour of the labs and the facilities, points out safety features that we need to have in mind, and highlights people responsible for our safety for the duration of the project (they do not know yet what is to come, but they have our sympathy). After the half-day safety course, we go straight into the wet lab to practice our laboratory skills. For the rest of the week, we complete several transformations, cloning procedures, colony incubations, practice our aseptic technique, and run gels, amongst many other experiments. Everyone contributes and we all feel much more comfortable with the experiments we have to perform in order to make our project work! (Or we pretend we do, fake it till you make it, right?)"	10/06/2019	15/06/2019	General	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/2/27/T--Manchester--NoteBook-InitalCount.jpg/450px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-InitalCount.jpg
DNADesign	Discovering Benchling	"Outside lab, we continue working on the DNA design for our plasmids, our constructs, our primers, amongst many other small design changes we have to make. Thankfully, with help from our instructor, we manage to get going and start a page on Benchling where we begin to upload our designs. (Incidentally, that day, we begin our offerings to The Google, giving daily praise in exchange for Benchling not crashing. We are pleased to report that The Google is a benevolent overlord and has heard our pleas.)"	12/06/2019	12/06/2019	General
SandwichLiberation	Couldn't let them go to waste!	"The team discovers the bottomless stomachs of some of their members after stray sandwiches are spotted by reception. Since no one rose to claim them, iGEM 2019 kindly rescued the food from a fate worse than digestion. We will deny any and all selfish motives which may be attributed to us for those actions. "	13/06/2019	13/06/2019	General	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/e/e1/T--Manchester--NoteBook-Sandwiches.png/800px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-Sandwiches.png
DownTutPub	Team Pub session	"Went to the pub (bright idea from yours truly) and enjoyed a couple of drinks. (And some food, because after yesterday's good start in rescuing poor unwanted sandwiches, we thought we ought to be inclusive and rescue pizzas too.)Turns out someone really likes halloumi fries. Turns out someone has a lot of stories to share. Turns out someone else can't handle a beer."	14/06/2019	14/06/2019	Social
ElisaRunsOff	Elisa popped back home	"Elisa attempts to run away by going back to Spain. She fails, in so that she purchases return tickets. Next time we won't be so lucky. "	15/06/2019	15/06/2019	Holiday
ScienceMuseum	Human Practices at the Science Museum	"We kick off our human practices with a stand in the Science festival from the University of Manchester. Our place in the museum allows us to explain our project to onlookers and people that are interested. We have three posters, which ask questions and receive feedback on our project."	15/06/2019	15/06/2019	Outreach	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/0/0b/T--Manchester--NoteBook-Museum.png/450px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-Museum.png.jpeg
MeOut	Vinordas leaves the team	"Vinordas texts me out to the group chat. After a few cryptic seconds, the storm is unleashed and the chat set afire. Vinordas will no longer be taking part in iGEM. Vinordas has left us. Vinordas is never seen again. "	15/06/2019	15/06/2019	Dropout
LogoBegin	Logo started	The logo starts taking digital form.	17/06/2019	17/06/2019	General
ProtocolsBegin	Protocol Drafting began	"We also start drafting up detailed protocol overviews for our project, to serve as templates and hopefully save us time. (That's the plan anyway.)"	17/06/2019	17/06/2019	General
Icecream	Ice-cream and eyebrows?!	"Because Elisa couldn't be the only one enjoying herself, members of the team went out for ice-cream after work that Monday. Thomas' eyebrows got plucked, we discovered a new place and everyone stuffed their faces with far too sugary treats. Good afternoon all around."	17/06/2019	17/06/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/c/c2/T--Manchester--NoteBook-Icecream.png
HairSamples	An adventure in legalese	"Talk with Dr Aspinall, about taking hair samples into the lab. After a lot of scares, and wading through dense legalese, we worked out that according to the Human Tissue Act, hair samples (from a living consenting donor) don't fall under the HTA and can be used without the approval of an ethics committee. (Phew. Nothing quite like bureaucracy to confuse proto-adults.)"	18/06/2019	18/06/2019	General
HPMeeting	Expert human practices advice	"This week we also meet with Dr Robert Meckin, a sociologist working at the MIB. We speak (read: he talks, we nod frantically and write it down) about human practices in general, possible approaches for our topic, and he gives us interesting reflections for us to think about regarding our project and synthetic biology. Additionally, we present the results from our science festival outreach and discuss the proper way to analyse them and how to move forward. Given that our results were surprisingly positive towards GMOs, we decided that the best way to move forward is to interview scientists in the MIB. We suggest some ideas for interview questions and are very careful in preventing possible bias."	18/06/2019	18/06/2019	HP
ProtocolsCont	Protocols taking shape	"We start to create our protocols from what Gajendar showed us in the lab during induction week. (And show off all that newfound knowledge on cloning and transformations.) We try to be as clear as possible, as to avoid confusion in the lab (we still have hope, but don't worry: not for long). "	19/06/2019	19/06/2019	General
GnomeDiplomacy	Tortured green naked gnome	"Prof. Breitling exhibits particularly excellent diplomatic skills by calling our current logo a tortured green naked gnome. He earns the (quiet, polite and hidden) ire of the design team, whose female members wish nothing more than to pull their hair out by this point. The logo is started from scratch. "	20/06/2019	20/06/2019	General	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/c/c8/T--Manchester--NoteBook-GreenGnome.gif
LilParty	Party at Camilo's	"To drink away the sorrows of the tortured green naked gnome, Camilo invites the entirety of our iGEM team to his accommodation for a little party. The night must have been good: we don't remember it."	21/06/2019	21/06/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/a/aa/T--Manchester--NoteBook-CamliosPad.gif
IPLawyer	IP primer with doughnuts!	"Recovered from the raucous lifestyle of students, we attend the IP lawyer meeting at Venner Shipley. They offer us doughnuts, which is probably the most exciting part of the day. (Since no one will read this, we can say such thing. Also, anonymity. A blessing.) Mujtaba says they are quite a big firm in Manchester, and we are very lucky to have such an opportunity. His word will be taken for it. "	24/06/2019	24/06/2019	General
IPAttempt2	IP but formal this time	"(Apparently, we do have to try and keep it formal. So, here is what the above actually means: Week 3 begins with a very interesting meeting in Manchester City Centre with IP lawyers from Venner Shipley. We meet with them to discuss what IP is, where it can be applied, how it affects synthetic biology, among other aspects. This is a very interesting meeting since it provides us with a real world framework for our project. Even though we are not pursuing a patent or looking to legally protect our product in any way, it is a good idea to follow that framework as closely as possible as a proof of concept that we are thinking about the bigger picture.)"	24/06/2019	24/06/2019	General
Lasagna	Team Cooking ish	"We had such a fun time (or so the black hole where memories should be suggests) at Camilo's that we decide to go there again. This time, we explore. He books a kitchen and we make lasagna. (By we, I mean: everyone tries to chip in and then gives up and Sophie makes lasagna. I think it's called micromanagement?) The lasagna tastes really good, though."	26/06/2019	26/06/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/8/8c/T--Manchester--NoteBook-Lasagna.gif
Hmm	Is Newcastle snubbing us?	Something was afoot!	27/06/2019	27/06/2019	General
TeamPics	We make our first attempt at Team Pictures.	"Oh, and that's a nice portrait of Marva, don't you think?"	28/06/2019	28/06/2019	General	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/4/4f/T--Manchester--NoteBook-TeamPhotos1.gif
SophiesParty	Party at Sophies!	"Elisa brings falafels to Sophie's, as well as strangers. The strangers are nice. The unknown purple condiment in the falafels, less so. The party is moved from Sophie's house to Camilo's accommodation. There is a strange stain on the sofa, the room is too dim and no one watches the movie that isn't playing. The strangers start a sing along. Some not-strangers sing along. Some are in no state to sing along. The night drags on. Everyone makes it home, which is good, though we abandon the idea of going to the club. Elisa wakes up the following morning with drool on the back of her shoulder and no idea how it got there. Camilo remembers the night before, and is the only one to do so we don't trust a word coming out of his mouth. He could be making up the truth. He has to be. He must. "	29/06/2019	29/06/2019	General
ParisTrip	Paris Trip oh	"We decide to attend the European iGEM meetup in Paris. We are excited for the meetup. We plan the trip, and look at buses, flight, trains. Our budget is reasonable. We are very excited for the meetup. We want to go to Paris, and take a couple of extra days to visit the city. We are very excited to go to Paris. We spend an entire morning preparing travel and accommodation. It takes our supervisors exactly 1.5 seconds to hear us out and say:No. We do not go to Paris."	30/06/2019	30/06/2019	Outreach
CamiloSlack	Camilo slacks off to Edinburgh.	" ""He even dares to taunt us with a picture. As Jonathan can attest: it rained all day in MCR. (Jealous? Us? No, never.)"""	01/07/2019	01/07/2019	Holiday	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/8/89/T--Manchester--NoteBook-CamlioSlacks.gif
FundingQ	Is Newcastle funding our travels to their meetup?	"Well, are they?"	03/07/2019	03/07/2019	General
IcecreamTwo	The power of sugar	"We go out for ice-cream again. It's nicer than the first time around because we know each other better. We have fun. We eat too much sugar. We learn that men can go very high pitch when they giggle. We decide sugar is a dangerous, dangerous substance. It's a good afternoon. "	04/07/2019	04/07/2019	Social
SophiesPartyTwo	Mystery Party	"Sophie hosts a party. We have no memory of it. No alcohol was involved. It says nothing good about the party. (She is reminded of it, and hums something no one can recognise. She hums it for a while. No one recognises it. The more she hums, the more desperate her humming becomes, the more no one recognises it. We learn that Sophie cannot carry a tune.)"	05/07/2019	05/07/2019	Social
Bowling	Event at the dogbowl	"We go bowling. It is a big event, that heralds the birth of an unforgiving rivalry between Camilo and the rest of iGEM: Camilo wins. Twice. We swear to dethrone him before the summer is over. (On a completely unrelated note: we find out that our skills at bowling are proportional to the amount of alcohol in our blood. We haven't quite worked out yet, though, if it was directly or inversely.)"	07/07/2019	07/07/2019	Social
QualityPlates	High quality plating	Someone's plating is spotless. Someone else's: less so.	08/07/2019	08/07/2019	General	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/4/41/T--Manchester--NoteBook-QualityPlates.jpg
QNewOne	Wait	Are we going to Newcastle?	08/07/2019	08/07/2019	General
QNewTwo	"Wait, no"	"So, we are not going to Newcastle?"	12/07/2019	12/07/2019	General
QNewThree	We ARE going to Newcastle	"Professor Takano proves to the entire iGEM teams of the UK that she is one lady not to mess with. (Coincidentally, a new cult is formed.) We take notes on polite aggressivity and try to remember to pick our jaws off the floor. Also, we are going to Newcastle."	13/07/2019	13/07/2019	General
BastilleDay	Bastille Day!	"Sophie forces everyone to dress up under the pretence of going out. We do not go out, but everyone gets dressed up. Elisa even wears a dress, and Ewan puts on the sole pair of smart jeans he owns. It is a wondrous sight to behold. (And becomes a lot less impressive when someone rocks up in a three-piece suit.) We meet some strangers only Sophie knows, and are supposed to meet more but they get lost on the road of life. We learn couches are living things that engulf and drain the energy of innocent people. We hit the bar on a Sunday evening. The bartenders are both alarmed to see so many of us, disappointed they cannot go home, and thoroughly confused to see us all come in on a Sunday. We go home, lose some people, and there is an inappropriate story about a bush, a tree, and a house. (Since Sophie is the only one to remember that story, no one trusts her version of events.) Still, we will remind Camilo of it until he dies. There is an afterparty at Sophie's, one she didn't know about, and people come back to her house sneakily. Everyone is confused. The confusion thickens. People fall asleep on the sofas."	14/07/2019	14/07/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/0/06/T--Manchester--NoteBook-EwanNails.jpg
BADBOYSCALE	Bad Boy Scale!	"Thomas, clearly under the influence of Owen, tries to install the bad boy scale. Marva's headache increases from juvvie to Ted Bundy. The Bad Boy scale is promptly abandoned."	18/07/2019	18/07/2019	Social
Noodles	Oodles of Noodles!	"We cook noodles at Sara's. (Correction: Sara cooks noodles, and we watch her do so.) They taste really nice. We ask for seconds. Sara is pleased. That's good, because her happy mood means she doesn't ask for help with the dishes. Some people offer to help. Sara says no. They insist. She accepts. (Politeness is not always the way to go. The people offering were hoping she'd say no again.) Sara does not do the dishes.  In between arguing about the dishes and praising Sara's cooking skills, Ewan's nails get done. It's in black so he really cannot complain. Camilo, oddly enough, only lets the girls paint one of his hands. He argues it looks less weird that way. (We think he's a very strange cookie.)"	21/07/2019	21/07/2019	Social
BowlingTwo	Dogbowl round two!	"We go bowling. We are late for our reservation, so Elisa power walks there and everyone has to match her. There is no other alternative. We match her pace. We make it to the bowling alley on time. (It takes us ten minutes to catch our breath: which means we are ten minutes late in starting the first game anyways. Sara is too polite to say it, but she wishes Elisa hadn't walked so fast. The others agree.) We bowl. Camilo wins. (The issue, when a party is made up of very competitive people, is that everything becomes a competition.) We bowl again. (It's crazy, isn't it, how ruthless people can get about knocking over pins with a heavy weapon. One would think us adults proto-adults, really but in fact we are all just little kids, wild baboons, desperately trying to knock over flimsy pins with a rolling object to ascertain superiority when it would be so much easier to take Camilo to karaoke and watch him miss all the notes.) Regardless of reason: we bowl once more.  Camilo wins again.  Our rage intensifies. (We will dethrone him.)"	21/07/2019	21/07/2019	Social
NewTrial	Trial Run Presentation	"Trial run of the presentation for Newcastle at Sophie's. She tries to feed us something strange. (She argues it was perfectly edible. We think she was just trying to empty her fridge.) No one falls ill, so perhaps she was saying the truth. Our presentation is a bit of a mess. Good thing we have another trial run soon."	22/07/2019	22/07/2019	General
SophieOff	"Quick, across the channel!"	"Successfully escape to France by one of the iGEM girls. Slippery, that one. "	25/07/2019	25/07/2019	General
PrettyPics	Colours yield some pretty pictures!	"Also: results! Yay. Because we are 21st century kids, the first thing we do is post it on Twitter and Instagram. We then tell our supervisors. They are happy. We are happy. Everyone is happy. Especially Elisa and Camilo, who have been slaving in the lab to get some colours."	26/07/2019	26/07/2019	Lab
Brighton	Sara off to Brighton	"Because only six team members were able to go to Newcastle, the remaining four were given time off iGEM to relax and enjoy the clement weather (insofar as Manchester does clement weather). Sara heads off to Brighton alone. NB: we do not know this man. This is, possibly, one of the greatest photobombs of Manchester iGEM 2019. (Perhaps it even dethrones Mujtaba's attempts during the Team Photos)"	28/07/2019	28/07/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/2/24/T--Manchester--NoteBook-Photobomb.jpg
NewcastleTrip	Newcastle Trip!	"We are definitely going to Newcastle. Our coach leaves just before seven. Thomas is already on his way there. (Except we almost don't make it, because we arrive at the station and there is a queue and so we, quite naturally, showing how well us foreigners have adapted to the English mentality, fall in line and queue. It is only by a stroke of luck that Camilo decides to go to the loo and realises it is, in fact, the queue for the next bus, which does not go to Newcastle at all. Our bus is already full, with its engine running.) We are the ones running after that.When we make it to Newcastle, the town is dark and quiet and twinkles merrily in the night. Most people are asleep. They don't know what is about to hit them. (Neither do we, to be honest.) We get to the accommodation lent to us by Newcastle iGEM. We are tired. Mujtaba's room is on the girl's floor. (He isn't living this one down.) Camilo's room is still our favoured meeting room, despite not being the biggest. Ewan is alone on a floor four, far, far below ours. We laugh, until we have to carry our suitcases all the way up to the eighth floor. Then, it's his turn to laugh. Turns out there were elevators. No one is laughing now. "	29/07/2019	29/07/2019	Outreach
ThomasStatue	Brighton Musuem	"In the meantime, very unaware of all the madness brewing in Newcastle, Sara makes good use of her days off by visiting a museum. 'this one, she comes back saying is Thomas."	29/07/2019	29/07/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/a/a8/T--Manchester--NoteBook-ThomasStatue.jpg
GrrStatue	Brighton Musuem	"'this one,'' she adds, with a little sigh that speaks a thousand words 'this one is how I feel on a Friday, 4pm, in labs."	29/07/2019	29/07/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/b/b0/T--Manchester--NoteBook-SaraStatute.jpg
Cows	Parks and Cows?	"We make a transcendental discovery that sends all of the townies in an altered state of communion with nature. Newcastle has parks. Inside these parks, there are cows. (If you don't believe us, take a look!)"	30/07/2019	30/07/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/4/43/T--Manchester--NoteBook-MCows.jpg
EscapeRoom	Mujtaba's Birthday	"It is Mujtaba's birthday! We do an Escape Room in Newcastle, which by some insane stroke of luck and patience does not turn into a Murder Mystery. If no one is willing to talk about what happened inside that locked room, well It's a story for another time.  By the way: we made it out in about 45mins. We aren't bragging just saying. "	01/08/2019	01/08/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/9/98/T--Manchester--NoteBook-EscapeRoom.jpg
Weather	England knows little mercy	"It rained on Mujtaba's birthday. But it is okay: the Brits have developed a whole new angle to romanticism, centred on rain, benches, and umbrellas. Kindly, Mujtaba and Ewan give the group's foreigners a little crash course on the matter:"	01/08/2019	01/08/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/a/a0/T--Manchester--NoteBook-SittingInTheRain.jpg
VanillaCake	Celebration vanilla cake	"We are back in Manchester. It is no longer Mujtaba's birthday, which is why he's really surprised when we bring out a slice of cake and a candle. It's vanilla cake, because Sara and Ewan have finally managed to order the sequences for vanillin synthesis. They are very proud. We are all very relieved."	02/08/2019	02/08/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/f/fb/T--Manchester--NoteBook-VanilaCake.jpg
MujtabaCake	Mujtaba is a year closer to death. Everyone is happy. 	"There's furious fanning as Mujtaba blows the candle out, because it generates an honestly disproportionate amount of smoke and we cleverly settled ourselves just below the fire alarm. There's no alarm, so we assume our fanning worked. Must have looked funny to people looking on. "	02/08/2019	02/08/2019	Social
BowlingThree	Questions about Camillo's free time	"We go bowling again. (Did I mention how competitive we are?) Camilo may have won again (so rude, don't you think?), so we go Crazy Golf afterwards in a bid to throw him off and snatch a victory, for once. Did it work, you ask? No.  No, it didn't. Camilo still beat us, hands down. We decide that, quite clearly, Camilo must practice. Which implies that he goes bowling when no one is around, to make sure he remains the winner, and he does so alone because otherwise he might be beaten and that would be counterproductive. Isn't that sad? (Camilo argues our logic is flawed, but the beauty of our ten-people democracy is that so long as the majority believes something to be the truth, it becomes the truth. And this is one truth we want to believe in.)"	04/08/2019	04/08/2019	Social
SafeDryIce	Safe Dry Ice Practices!	"Mujtaba displays startling maturity in the lab by disposing of dry ice in a safe and responsible manner. Camilo films it all, because what else are friends for, if not recording your proudest moments?"	08/08/2019	08/08/2019	Lab	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/0/0b/T--Manchester--NoteBook-DryIce.jpg
ForksNeeded	Can we have forks?	"In a bid to enhance our team spirit, members of iGEM 2019 went out to lunch together. The elected restaurant was Japanese, which made Camilo very happy because he doesn't like sticky rice. (We are far too mature to purposefully select a restaurant he dislikes half the menu of, simply, as payback.) Thankfully, Jonathan was there to show us all how to use chopsticks. Some, who shall remain anonymous (Camilo, Mujtaba, Ewan, Sara, Elisa you can give your thanks later for preserving your dignity) caved in and asked for forks. Sara, in a startling display of command over the English language, asked for a spoon instead. Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. (We enjoyed watching her try to eat noodles with a spoon.) Broth ended up everywhere around Sophie, who valiantly perdured with her chopsticks. (There is valour in retreat. The French are normally quite good at knowing it, but somehow this one has missed the memo.) Those sat on her left and right were pleased to receive, from time to time, scalding little droplets of broth. It complimented nicely the slurping noises. New boundaries were breached, and the team emerged from this experience a stronger, more tightly-knit community. Shame has a way of bringing people together. (Jonathan, meanwhile, was quietly laughing. Of course, we did not miss the occasion to not-so-quietly laugh back the next time we went out to a European restaurant and he had to use a knife and fork.)"	09/08/2019	09/08/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/e/e0/T--Manchester--NoteBook-ForksNeeded.jpg/449px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-ForksNeeded.jpg
Blackmail	A soul-searching evening	"The team showed a surprising amount of restraint, for once not clearing out the fridge of the poor sod hosting the gathering, and to this day Sophie's limited cupboard space is still full of half-empty bottles. Thomas wore eyeliner rather well, too. A truly harrowing game of Truth-or-Dare was played, followed by Never-have-I-Ever, at which point the team was quite ready to move on and forget about the brutal honesty of the participants. (Videos were recorded.) A movie was put on, during which almost everyone fell asleep. Blackmail Pictures were taken, and people sent home with the rolling credits. We realised, that night, that we were in the presence of a mutant, for one of the sleeping innocents narrowly avoided death by couch-engulfment. His escape is due solely to the frankly science-defying way his spine suddenly seemed to vanish as he became, a term wittily coined by Camilo, half-man half-liquid. "	09/08/2019	09/08/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/5/5f/T--Manchester--NoteBook-HalfManHalfLiquid.png/447px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-HalfManHalfLiquid.png
RIPMouse	RIP mouse	"It is with great regret that we announce the passing of the mice Elisa lovingly kept and fed, the mickey who hid beneath her refrigerator and ate at her wires, the tiny furry friend who kept her company on long and cold winter nights. No longer, will she see a tiny tail disappear in the wall. No longer will she shout in delight to find gnawed packets spilling their innards. No longer will she regale her guests with the tale of the mice she named a name that cannot be shared. We will miss hearing about you, mice. Your name lives on in our memories."	10/08/2019	10/08/2019	Other
Badboydown	Owen dropped out	"Owen left the team. He did so with several long and heartfelt messages team members avidly read, and we will acknowledge him duly to the extent of his work. He takes the forgotten Bad Boy scale with him. M8, if you are reading this we still want our entrepreneurship page."	10/08/2019	10/08/2019	Dropout
ShampooHoard	Shampoo for Science!	"iGEM 2019 hit the ground running by scoping out the competition! (A bit late, on might argue, but it's a nice sentiment.)  A bottle of shampoo, claiming to be able to strengthen damaged hair through their new amino-acid based repair technology, was bought. It was a necessary monetary sacrifice, made by the girls of the team who then promptly used the shampoo themselves all in the name of science, of course. (The boys may or may not have also made a pass at trying it, but so far, the girls have valiantly hoarded the pleasantly effective bottle.) As the purpose of the shampoo was closely similar to what our decapeptide module sought to do, we wanted to compare the ingredients' list. It was a long and arduous task, particularly because ingredient lists are written in such a way as to make what we were trying to do particularly difficult, but Sophie earned her keep as the sole chemist of the group by working out what on earth the ingredient with the long name might be. (Of course, we won't mention that Elisa was the one to look at the list and, in a stroke of unparalleled genius, go huh, that's probably what we are looking for and then proceed to point at the incredibly long and obscure name ending in, hint, hint: hydrolysed keratin. Nope, no, that's just a detail.)"	11/08/2019	11/08/2019	General
COAlarm	Elisa's carbon monoxide alarm started beeping that night.	"Did Elisa evacuate? Nope. (Kids, don't try this at home.)"	11/08/2019	11/08/2019	Other	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/e/ec/T--Manchester--NoteBook-COalarm.jpg
BitesDust	Marva left	"Marva left the team today, with several long and heartfelt messages. (It seemed Vinordas set a trend all were determined not to follow.) We will acknowledge her duly to the extent of her work. Whoever quietly hummed Queen's Another One Bites the Dust as the messages came in was, though rather correct, both wildly out of tune and turn. (Although, undeniably, funny.)"	13/08/2019	13/08/2019	Dropout
Sourcey	Eldritch knowledge from Source Bio	"A meeting with Source Bioscience. Since the members involved came back without saying anything, we assume this wonderful opportunity was such a boon to their education that they felt the need to keep this advantage to themselves. How devious. The rest of us boil not to have attended, and we will definitely strive to extract from them all the knowledge Source Bioscience outreach staff has imparted. We thank said staff for coming over to the MIB and giving up their time. "	14/08/2019	14/08/2019	General
BowlingFour	"Three guesses as to what we did, and the first two don't count."	" (You might have picked up on a trend, but in case you've just been skim reading and not really paying attention, and therefore this riddle has become a stomper for you, then good. You should have focused more. Now you can go back a couple of entries, and re-read the rage-fuelled, competitive, ludicrous afternoons we have spent in each other's company trying to wrench away from Camilo the title of Undefeated. I won't tell you what he is undefeated at: that would be spoiling the game. Now, go back and read it all again. You must have followed the entire story in order to fully appreciate the delectability of this moment. This is jubilatory.) Here is what happened, that extraordinary Sunday afternoon: Camilo lost. No other details are required: just bask in those two words, charged with the energizing mix of frustration, jealousy, competitiveness and all-round childishness only eight friends who see each other far too much can have.  Let us enjoy these words again: Camilo lost. Or rather, Camilo was beaten. (Such a pleasant sight has not been seen, truly, I say, since the days of the tortured green naked gnome.) At what, you might ask, was Camilo beaten? Bowling. He lost at bowling. That he lost to a stranger who has long gone back to her own country is of no relevance, nor that we still have not managed to beat him, those are mere details. (Of course, we then played a second game and, naturally, Camilo won this one but. Still. He lost.) Blissful, blissful day: how we have waited for you. Pettiness: 1; Adulthood: 0."	18/08/2019	18/08/2019	Social
MissionIB	Mujtaba Impossible	"Mujtaba attempts to break into the MIB. He does not realise that this is Bank Holiday Monday, and the building will be empty. Mujtaba goes home early that day."	22/08/2019	22/08/2019	Other
HeatInManc	Summer? In Manchester?!	"Someone, somewhere, thought it was finally time for summer! We are proud Mancunians indeed, recording down for posterity the day it was 30°C in Manchester:"	24/08/2019	24/08/2019	Other	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/4/49/T--Manchester--NoteBook-MancSunny.jpg/276px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-MancSunny.jpg
BenchPizza	"After a very long day in the lab,"	"There is nothing quite like two pizzas, a garlic bread, a pack of chocolate treats, white chocolate bars, two different kinds of ice cream and mindless TV to help two tired iGEMmers write up their Benchling!"	29/08/2019	29/08/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/f/f3/T--Manchester--NoteBook-Caloriesatbay.jpg
ThomasPartyAnimal	Sheffield Meetup!	"Informal iGEM Meetup in Sheffield. Only Thomas goes, which is because we are a bunch of antisocial nerds who've just managed to tame one another and have fulfilled their quotas of human interactions for the decade. He comes back from it, too, which is always a pretty good thing. There is a story about a girl, somewhere, too."	01/09/2019	01/09/2019	General
AttemptDeath	Investigation	We document the attempt of death by protocol performed on the 4th September 2019 by [Redacted]  on [Redacted] and [Redacted]. Please find pictures of the murder weapon right.	04/09/2019	04/09/2019	General	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/2/2e/T--Manchester--NoteBook-Mindbreaking.png/800px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-Mindbreaking.png
MagicMIB	Magic at the MIB	"Elisa transforms Sara and Ewan's yellow box into an orange one by the power of gravity. Coincidentally, ca. 50 Eppendorf tubes are discovered, below the -80°C fridge of the Floor 2 Lab in the MIB. Elisa decides that this way lies madness, and walks away calmly. Camilo, unaware, approaches the fridge, humming (off-key) some unrecognisable tune."	05/09/2019	05/09/2019	General	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/d/d9/T--Manchester--NoteBook-GravityMagic.jpg
GettingHot	Fire Alarm at the MIB	"A good drill: we all exit on time and with our limbs intact. Were we the ones to set it off, you ask? Why yea of so little faith! Also, of course it started raining as we stood outside, waiting to be allowed back in. This is England. "	06/09/2019	06/09/2019	Other	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/1/11/T--Manchester--NoteBook-FireAlarm.jpg
SleepingBag	Sleeping bags - Secret iGEM tech!	"Sara makes the brilliant suggestion to store a sleeping bag in the MIB. Considering how long we spend there, it is our survival instincts which make us reject the idea. (We will see sunlight and breathe fresh air.) And yet, the nights are falling at eight, so by the time we get out there isn't much sunlight to see. This is Manchester, let us not kid ourselves: the air is rarely fresh. (The sleeping bag) Might as well. "	08/09/2019	08/09/2019	Other
SaraOK	Sara are you OK???	"Elisa, walking purposefully across the lab and not meandering at all, comes across Sara crouched in a corner, with five empty pipette boxes cradled to her chest. Elisa backs away slowly. (But not before she has snapped a picture of this, because what are friends for, if not recording your proudest moments?) On a side note, we understand the comparison with the museum's statue a lot better now."	09/09/2019	09/09/2019	Other	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/2/2c/T--Manchester--NoteBook-LifeImitatesArt.png/800px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-LifeImitatesArt.png
ChineseSkills	"Because we didn't learn our lesson, we go out for lunch again"	"Chinese, this time, so Camilo could have picked from more than half the menu, if it weren't seasonal. Most of the table, having learnt their lesson, asks for forks as they order. Sophie does not. Sara, sat on her left, dearly wishes she had. Thomas, across, concurs after the first slurp. Jonathan laughs from the end of the table as he expertly twirls his noodles about his chopsticks and manages not to drip it everywhere. (And we are all jealous.)"	11/09/2019	11/09/2019	Social	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/b/b3/T--Manchester--NoteBook-PlateDrawing.jpg/800px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-PlateDrawing.jpg.png
PlatePics1	Plate Drawing!	"Plate drawing! Elisa and Camilo have been producing many shades of colour, and we all enjoy them late on a Friday afternoon as we paint art on plates. Sara draws a Sponge Bob, Katie a bacterium, and Elisa is being sensible and seeing if mixing two colonies gives a different colour (like one might expect when mixing paint). A unicorn, a landscape, some shapeless blobs, who knows what will develop! (But we have fun, and we laugh, and we chat, and that's possibly the nicest end of the week we have had in a while.) It's a good day."	13/09/2019	13/09/2019	Lab
LovelyPlates	Results of our drawing	Our plates look fantastic. They do. Just different styles.	16/09/2019	16/09/2019	Lab	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/b/b3/T--Manchester--NoteBook-PlateDrawing.jpg/800px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-PlateDrawing.jpg.png
FridgeCleaning	Helping out Gajendar	"Because we are lovely, lovely people who sometime need to do silly, silly things in order not to let stress, ambition and general madness drive us to hysteria: we cleaned out Gajendar's freezer. Did he need us to? We maintain he did. Gajendar disagrees. (He is allowed to be wrong, sometimes.) Did we need to? Yes. Yes we most certainly did."	25/09/2019	25/09/2019	Lab	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/3/38/T--Manchester--NoteBook-GajFreezer.jpg/449px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-GajFreezer.jpg
RegMeeting	"A regular meeting, in the lives of Manchester iGEM 2019. "	Did someone not once say that a tidy board was a tidy mind?	26/09/2019	26/09/2019	General	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/a/a9/T--Manchester--NoteBook-TidyBoardTidyMind.jpg
Hoodies	We placed the order for team hoodies! Whoop. Whoop.	Let's hope they look as awesome in real life as they do on screen. (There is a completely unrelated story about a date in there somewhere)	30/09/2019	30/09/2019	General	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/9/96/T--Manchester--NoteBook-Hoodies.png/800px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-Hoodies.png
EndlessWrap	The Endless Meeting Wrapup	"Please see the stress, tension and general madness rolling between our flesh and bones as we fight our way through yet another endless post-meeting wrap up. This is where problems are raised, discarded, made anew, and general chaos ensues.Here be monsters, say the stories. Here be iGEM. On a side note: this particular meeting devolved fairly quickly when Jonathan's cookies were eaten by someone who shall remain nameless. (They were very yummy cookies, and we have already established that Manchester iGEM 2019's primary task was to rescue food left unattended.) Honestly!"	02/10/2019	02/10/2019	General
NoRest	No rest for the wicked!	"No rest for the wicked! Everyone is far too tired to go out, or even think about doing anything other than Uni-iGEM-sleep. The latter, most of all, is a dream if we can achieve it. (Sadly, it's become more and more ephemeral). We are wrapping up our wiki pages, writing them all up so Sophie, Jonathan and Thomas can get them up on the website. Content is being written, and it is so rewarding to see how many pages our work fills up. The summer has been long, and our wiki will certainly reflect that! University deadlines are lining up in the weeks to come. We'll see how we handle the last stretch (this is the home run!) but we have faith in getting everything done. Mujtaba has started designing the presentation, and we are giving it a trial run in the MIB on the 14th October. Fingers crossed!"	09/10/2019	09/10/2019	General	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/6/6e/T--Manchester--NoteBook-LongMeeting.jpg
Presfinal	Finalising the presenation	"We meet at the Main Library, on the University of Manchester's campus, to finalise our presentation. Except we don't finalise it, and decide to meet again. Oops?"	12/10/2019	12/10/2019	General
FinalFinal	"Finalising the presentation, again"	"This time, we promise, we finalised it! (And if, as we say our goodbyes, someone hums 4 Non Blondes 'What's going on?' underneath their breath Well. Everyone hides a smile.)"	13/10/2019	13/10/2019	General
PresentationRun	Finally closer to final	"Yeah - you know how we said our presentation was finalised? Not exactly! No plan resists first contact, after all. We enter the presentation theatre nervous, a bit shakey, but most of us are there and, above all, we are confident in our knowledge. This shows, and we shine in the question and answer section; even when our supervisors try to find some sneaky angles to pursue. It is rewarding, even if the presentation has to undergo quite a lot of change, to see how the summer's work has come to fruition. Our trip to Boston, the Jamboree, presenting Cutiful, it is all beginning to feel so very, very real. (We cannot wait to be there. Watch out, Boston! Here comes Cutiful.)"	14/10/2019	14/10/2019	General	
PoorBear	Poor Bear	"The iGEM bear gets it, because writing protocols, is oddly enough, not as easy as it sounds"	19/06/2019	19/06/2019	Other	https://2019.igem.org/wiki/images/thumb/5/52/T--Manchester--NoteBook-PoorBear.gif/449px-T--Manchester--NoteBook-PoorBear.gif