Team:UiOslo Norway/Timeline

iGEM 2017 Begins

Feb

Team Building Activities

Getting to know each other. Meetings :D

March

Brainstorming for Projects

Deciding on projects: chief candidates are bio-laser and formaldehyde detection. Attended BioBrick-tutorial with other Scandinavian teams.

Decided that our project would be about making a Bio-laser!

April

The real work begins...

Presenting our project ideas at Realistforeningen. Actively recruiting new members, particularly physicists. Planning the summer. Trying to find supervisors.

May

Exam lull

Coordinated with external supervisors. Creates the script for parts searching. Decided on use of biological parts. Considered options for laser setup and sponsors. Extracted sfGFP from E. Coli, for use as proof-of-concept tests.

Exams over... the work commences!

June

Parts design and InterLab Study

Started working on the InterLab Study. Started actively designing parts and primers, synthesized generously by the courtesy of IDT. Presented for the head of institute at the Department of Biosciences. Landed interview with Porsgrunn Dagblad.

July

In the summertime~~

InterLab take #2 (we had problems with our first attempt), successful this time. Landed sponsoring deal with OsloTech, scheduled to present at Cutting Edge festival. Agreeing on collaboration with teams from NTNU and Hefei. Started attempting transformations of E.Coli and cloning of parts into pSB1C3, and composite part into pJK148 (yeast expression vector).

Starting experiments with laser setup

Aug

The dreaded end of summer

Presented for an expert group that provided feedback on our ideas. Landed sponsoring with Thorlabs, GATC and Senter for Digitalt Liv Oslo. Presented for bioscience master student and new physics students. Continued work on cloning, but facing problems. Heavy troubleshooting. Harvested a new batch of sfGFP. Participated in ethics discussion arranged by Uppsala iGEM.

Sept

Held poster session at the Cutting Edge festival. More cloning and troubleshooting. Visits NTNU to hold mock presentation, and teams up for collaboration.

The final sprint

Oct

Wrapping up

Manages to successfully clone composite part and nmt1 into submission vector. Equipment from Thorlabs arrive, able to test laser setup with mirrors on both sfGFP-expressing yeast and a extracted protein solution. Presented our work to the Norwegian Minister of Education. Wrapping up collaboration with Hefei and NTNU. Finishing the wiki.

Nov

The great jamboree!

Making final poster, then attending the jamboree! (image by: iGEM Foundation, Justin Knight)

It's Showtime