From 2013.igem.org

This notebook gives a brief overview of the activities of the UGent iGEM team. For more detailed information regarding labwork or human outreach, take a look at:

Labjournal
Human Outreach

October - June

• October 24th: First meeting
• getting to know each other
• start brainstorming
• November 19th: the start of our search for sponsors
• December 18th: first ideas for our subject
• February 7th: we have a Facebook page!
• February 14th: our Twitter account is active
• February 19th: we have a subject: "A new model for stabilised gene duplication: Eliminating antibiotic resistance genes" it is! Now we can start writing the literature study
• March 2nd: information stand @ Open House Day at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Ghent (Human Outreach)
  


• April 15th: making of the protocols
• April 27th: photo shoot
• first group picture



• June 3th: our literature study is finished!
  


• June 25th: presentation of our project for a jury

July

• July 23th, 24th and 25th: introduction in the lab
• learning some basic principles
• general preparation
• July 24th: Our colleagues from Leuven are joining us today to exchange some ideas!
  


• Human outreach: flyer and survey
• July 4th-7th @ Rock Werchter
  


• July 26th and 28th @ 'Gentse Feesten'
  

August

• August 1st:
• introduction Clone Manager
• learning about the safety in the lab
• August 5th:
• First day in the lab!
• soil sample is sent to the Norwich team
• August 8th: we went shopping for team shirts
• August 13th: evacuation of the lab
  


• Human outreach: flyer and survey
• August 15th-17th @ Pukkelpop
• August 20th:
• our poster is up at the Ghent Biobased Economy Summer School at our faculty
  


• we went to the debate “Biobased economy: dream or reality?” and handed out some surveys.
• August 22nd: we went to a lecture on moral disgust by Johan Braeckman
• Labwork

September

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