Wet Lab
Notebook
For each notebook entry, copy the template here. Additionally, add a weekly summary to the main notebook page.
Goals
- Work as a team through the DBTL cycle
- Practice experimental planning, analysis and data collection
- Learn how to interpret this data for our Proof of Concept and to tell a story on our Wiki
- Learn essential lab skills for synthetic biology
- Adhere to lab safety and diligent note taking during experiments
- Develop problem-solving skills to identify and address issues that may arise during experiments
- Foster collaboration and communication with other sub teams
Timeline
| Event | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|
| Project pitch brainstorming | January | |
| Lab inventory (Leads) | January | |
| Wet lab workshop on relevent knowledge and techniques | February | |
| Project brainstorming + propose wet lab projects | February | March |
| Assign individual tasks | April | |
| In-lab experiments | May | August |
iGEM Medal Requirements
Bronze
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Project description:
- Describe how and why you chose your iGEM project
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Contribution:
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Make a useful contribution for future iGEM teams.
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Add new documentation to an existing Part on that Part's Registry page:
- New information learned from literature
- New data collected from laboratory experiments
- Document troubleshooting that would be helpful to future teams
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Add new documentation to an existing Part on that Part's Registry page:
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Make a useful contribution for future iGEM teams.
Silver
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Engineering success:
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Go through at least one iteration of the engineering design cycle:
- Design → Build → Test → Learn
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Go through at least one iteration of the engineering design cycle:
Gold
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Excellence in Synthetic Biology
- General Biological Engineering
- and in at least one Specialization