Team:Hannover/Notebook

iGEM Hannover 2020

Notebook

Here, we present a general overview of our timeline, with major meeting events. If you like a detailed review of all our experiments, please feel free to contact us to obtain our lab notebooks as PDF.

November 2019
In November we started to recruite team members and had our first meeting. We got to know each other and decided roughly on a topic.
  • 11/2020: First meetings for team building and planning.
  • December 2019
    We decided more about our project and came up with the name InToSens. The logo was designed and everyone was divided into subgroups, so everyone got a special topic to work on his own.
  • 12/04/2019: Sketches for logo created, work breakdown structure plan/bar chart created
  • 12/05/2019: Topic better defined and first abstract written
  • 12/11/2019: Abstract for scientific target group/ general public discussed, logo revised
  • 12/18/2019: Responsibilities divided, initial planning of sponsors
  • 12/18/2019: Christmas party
  • 12/27/2019: Topic specified
  • January 2020
    We planed our goals for the whole year for all subgroups and especially for the lab work.
  • 01/08/2020: First evaluation of cloning strategies and parts
  • 01/15/2020: Public relations, Girls/Boysday planned, Famelab planned
  • 01/22/2020: Registration fees acquired, iGEM Group for social media created
  • 01/29/2020: Public relations, new group photo
  • February 2020
    We organized the first group activity, which was much fun. Our social media accounts were created and we started informing other scientists and non-scientists about our project.
  • 02/15/2020: First planning of the measuring chamber
  • 02/19/2020: Socializing survey, anything blunt won. Abstract revised.
  • March 2020
    In March, we contacted the first sponsors. In the middle of March the Covid-19-pandemic reached Germany and we could not start working in the lab, as we planned. After a few weeks, we decided to meet virtually on Skype and to continue the project anyway.
  • 03/04/2020: Registration: Team registered but not yet approved (funding; countercheck by IGEM) Cloning strategy with BioBrick requirements by iGEM compared, laboratory access authorization organized
  • 02/19/2020: Socializing survey, anything blunt won. Abstract revised.
  • April 2020
    We have officially registered at IGEM and could start working in the lab. We connected with the iGem Team Darmstadt and started our biggest Collaboration. Furthermore we got our first sponsors.
  • 04/02/2020: Corona, project continuation and how to react to the pandemic and emerging difficulties (difficult working conditions, sponsors etc)
  • 04/22/2020: First interview plans for Human Practices
  • May 2020
    In May was the offically opening weekend. It was much fun to join the events. The lab work group cloned 4 constructs and sequenced magA with eGFP, hGluc and both with flag tag. The measuring chamber was designed.
  • 05/19/2020: Wiki started
  • 05/23/2020: First collaboration meeting
  • 05/27/2020: 4 Constructs cloned and sequenced magA with eGFP, hGluc and both with flag tag, for 3 constructs bacteria cultures are prepared
  • June 2020
    The measuring chamber has been printed and the first interviews were conducted.
  • 06/03/2020: Safety-form and furhter finances planned
  • 06/10/2020: First interview performed, initial cell experiments running
  • July 2020
    The constructions are ready and working, the lab work group continued cell experiments
  • 07/17/2020: Measuring chamber printed, Collaboration with TU Darmstadt running
  • August 2020
    The constructs are working as expected in HeLa cells. We participated at the Global Meet-Up with our own workshop “How to bake an iGem role“ and joined other workshops, which was much fun.
  • 08/26/2020: Cloning completed, cell experiments are running, modeling in progress, additional focus on quantitative results
  • September 2020
    Magnetic particles can be detected with our measuring chamber. We have made the project promotion video and our team shirts got printed.
  • 09/18/2020: Meeting for video planning
  • 09/25/2020: First part of Team Promotion Video recorded
  • October 2020
    Deadlines are approaching fast...