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    <h3>Journals</h3>
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    <p>You are here!</p>
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== Team ==
 
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'''01/07'''
 
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Today, everyone finally finished their exams, and we decided to get to work immediately so we held a '''kick-off meeting''', so we had our noses all in the same direction.
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      <p align="justify">This summer, three dedicated male engineers spent a whole summer modelling our systems. <br/>However, without the help of a girl, Tina, this would have been a rather "nerdy" journal. Luckily, Tina was always there when the modelling team sought a balance between awful jokes and work efficiency. Nevertheless, without Sander's work tempo, Bert’s criticism and Tomas' factotum mind, the modelling would not have been as thorough as now.<br/>
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In this journal, you can read how they started modelling from scratch up to being modelling specialists, using Matlab, SimBiology, COBRA and even qPCR.</p>
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      <p align="justify">We worked together with two research groups, Biobest and pcfruit. Both offer a whole series of parasitoids and predators against aphids for the purpose of biological pest control and investigate the relationship between plant and aphid in search of a method to protect plants from this pest. Here, you can read more about the experiments Aurelie and Flore (Biobest) and Tina and Tomas (pcfruit) performed to test our model on aphids and ladybugs.</p>
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It is always necessary to get feedback from important players in the field ,in order to get relevant feedback on your project. With that thought in mind we contacted [http://www.biobest.be/home/3 '''Biobest'''].
 
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Biobest is a Belgian company which exports bumblebees to over 50 countries worldwide. This makes them the leading authority in '''biological pollination'''. The presence of the bumblebees makes it necessary to avoid the use of chemical insecticides. For this reason. Biobest produces and commercializes more than 30 kinds of beneficial insects and mites, which are used for biological crop protection. This made them the ideal company to contact for advise and expertise.
 
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After signing in at the reception we presented our project to prof. Felix Wäckers, their head of R&D. Not only did he give some excellent advise but with his help it will be possible to perform experiments with both '''ladybugs, aphids and perhaps even other insects.'''
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      <p align="justify">Here we present the work on the <a href="Http://2013.igem.org/Team:KU Leuven/Project/Glucosemodel/EBF">EBF-biobrick</a>, a part of the glucose model, week by week. The contributors are Lukas and Su, which formed a very tight team that already started with lab work even during the exams in June. Lukas’ multitasking skills and Su’s precise work, combined with their cute smiles, made sure everyone regretted not being part of this team. <br/> You can read all about the extensive work the EBF guys have done in this part.</p>
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But our visit didn’t end there, besides an interesting discussion we also got a guided tour of the facilities! Needless to say we are very excited to get to work there!
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      <p align="justify">Long team discussions and Bert’s persistence resulted this summer in a ‘proof of concept’ wetlab version of Bert Mortier’s oscillator, called the ‘feed forward loop’. <br/>
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Pieter and Sylvie were immediately up to form a subteam and started working in order to create a part of the <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:KU_Leuven/Project/Oscillator">oscillator</a>.<br/>
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In this part, you can read all about their big UP in the beginning, going to a down after a while and the eventual steady state with troubleshooting in the end.<br/>
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Nevertheless, this feed forward loop is only the beginning to create Bert’s oscillator.</p>
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      <p align="justify">The modelling team also performed a qPCR, a new and appeasing way to characterise and to find data for our <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:KU_Leuven/Project/qPCR">computer model</a>. In this part, you can read how to properly manage with troubles and how to search for promising directions.</p>
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'''14/07'''
 
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Members of this and previous years' Calgary iGEM team came to visit Leuven and, after a few belgian bears, were willing to give us lots of tips & tricks to get through iGEM summer.
 
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Collaboration with other teams is important, so we went to Ghent to visit our colleagues of the [https://2013.igem.org/Team:UGent University of Ghent]. First, we went to the Faculty of Bioscience engineering, but everything was closed cause of the Gentse Feesten. We met four friendly students of the team and took some time to know each other. We talked about our projects and exchanged some ideas. Our view on the project is totally different and so we learned from each other. They had already a nice overview of the literature and we already did a lot of work for sponsoring, modelling and human practices. We made a common press article and hopefully we get synthetic biology and our projects in the picture here in Belgium. We’ll see each other soon again at Marktrock in Leuven.
 
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Journals

You are here!

Protocols

No magic involved - unfortunately

Safety

Be careful!

Modelling

This summer, three dedicated male engineers spent a whole summer modelling our systems.
However, without the help of a girl, Tina, this would have been a rather "nerdy" journal. Luckily, Tina was always there when the modelling team sought a balance between awful jokes and work efficiency. Nevertheless, without Sander's work tempo, Bert’s criticism and Tomas' factotum mind, the modelling would not have been as thorough as now.
In this journal, you can read how they started modelling from scratch up to being modelling specialists, using Matlab, SimBiology, COBRA and even qPCR.

E. coligy

We worked together with two research groups, Biobest and pcfruit. Both offer a whole series of parasitoids and predators against aphids for the purpose of biological pest control and investigate the relationship between plant and aphid in search of a method to protect plants from this pest. Here, you can read more about the experiments Aurelie and Flore (Biobest) and Tina and Tomas (pcfruit) performed to test our model on aphids and ladybugs.

E-β-Farnesene

Here we present the work on the EBF-biobrick, a part of the glucose model, week by week. The contributors are Lukas and Su, which formed a very tight team that already started with lab work even during the exams in June. Lukas’ multitasking skills and Su’s precise work, combined with their cute smiles, made sure everyone regretted not being part of this team.
You can read all about the extensive work the EBF guys have done in this part.

Feed forward loop

Long team discussions and Bert’s persistence resulted this summer in a ‘proof of concept’ wetlab version of Bert Mortier’s oscillator, called the ‘feed forward loop’.
Pieter and Sylvie were immediately up to form a subteam and started working in order to create a part of the oscillator.
In this part, you can read all about their big UP in the beginning, going to a down after a while and the eventual steady state with troubleshooting in the end.
Nevertheless, this feed forward loop is only the beginning to create Bert’s oscillator.

Methyl Salicylate

The Methyl Salicylate team or ‘MeS boys’, in normal life called Robbert and Laurens, worked on the improvement of the methyl salicylate brick round the clock almost whole summer. The journal can be found here. More information on the MeS biobrick can be found on this page.

qPCR

The modelling team also performed a qPCR, a new and appeasing way to characterise and to find data for our computer model. In this part, you can read how to properly manage with troubles and how to search for promising directions.

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