Team:DTU-Denmark/Timeline

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Timeline


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Project Timeline

January

February

  • 2013-02-25 Project selected: Conversion of ammonia to nitrous oxide in E. coli

March

  • 2013-03-11 Biobrick workshop hosted for KU and SDU
  • 2013-03-13 Project kickoff meeting with supervisors

April

May

June

  • 2013-06-04 Team competency mapping
  • 2013-06-09 Work on wiki started
  • 2013-06-29 Team BBQ

July

Week 27

  • Hello World project complete and successful. From a cytoplasmic extraction, we have observed GFP in the periplasm and RFP in the cytoplasm.
  • Conducted the toxicity experiment and completed data analysis: average ammonia concentrations in wastewater are not toxic to E. coli.

Week 28

  • Designed, ordered and received primers to extract genes from Nitrosomonas and Pseudomonas
  • Began work on cloning genes out of Nitrosomonas europaea and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. All isolations successful so far except for Nir.

Week 29

Week 30

  • Ordered new primers to extract Nir gene in two pieces.
  • Despite successful PCR and transformation of AMO, HAO and cytochromes, we only have viable colonies for the cytochromes. Expect that this is due to the fact that we are expressing periplasmic and membrane proteins, which is causing excessive stress on the cells.
  • Began work on pBAD synthetic promoter library so that we will be able to induce a low level of expression of our periplasmic genes.

Week 31

  • Saturday BBQ with KU

August

Week 32

Week 33

Week 34

Week 35

  • Attended Scandinavian meetup in Odense hosted by SDU team
  • Biobricks in progress
  • Biolector for SPL in progress
  • sequencing for SPL in progress
  • first draft of presentation
  • first draft of poster
  • measure Nir, AMO, HAO transformants
  • modelling of kinetics and design of a reactor: Vanessa
  • Title and abstract finished; Title: Requiem for a Stream
  • Reviewed presentation with Julie, who gave us very good advice on pitching our project
  • measure AMO, HAO transformants complete

September

Week 36

  • Have biobricks for AMO and cytochromes (are going to sequence these), the others are coming.
  • Running last biolector experiment today
  • sequencing for SPL is in progress
  • Kristian is working on a page in the parts registry for the parts registry
  • first draft of presentation completed
  • first draft of poster complete
  • modelling of kinetics and design of a reactor: using Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor
  • Began reactor design -- ask Mikael Rordham in 223 for 2 1L chemostats

Week 37

  • biobricks -- have 2 that are fine: AMO and cytochromes
  • redo colony pcr with sequencing primers to verify
  • Nir experiment on friday
  • Planning for bioreactor experiment
  • Human Practices: Attended BioPeople event "The Basics and the Best" on IP and patent law

Week 38

  • Filmed "Bricks of Knowledge" video on USER cloning for KU team
  • Biobricks mailed
    • tat signal peptide
    • amo
    • cytochromes
  • arabinose promoter biobrick not made -- Kristian and Henrike will make this in the next few days
  • Bioreactor experiment started this morning, will finish at 10pm tonight.

Week 39

  • Hackathon intensive to complete wiki 28th of Sept
  • Nir experiment -- Kasia and Ariadne will do this on Thursday
  • Video in progress
  • Reviewed poster v2

October

Week 40

  • Wiki complete!