Team:KULeuven/Road Map

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This page contains information on meetings and schedules, on practical stuff, and some suggestions on background reading.

Brainstorm ideas for the project have been moved to the project page.

Spelen met de wiki doe je in de zandbak, vragen stellen of suggesties doen op de discussiepagina.


Contents

Meetings

1st Brainstorm

students and instructors brainstorm: Thursday May 22nd 10am @ ESAT 01.57

present: all students, SDK, LVA, YM, JR, GG, IT

  • Each student presented his/her 3 favourite projects of previous iGEMs. All project brainstorm ideas are moved to the project page. There, you can add links to your favourite projects and/or upload your presentation.
  • The group picture is on our team page.
  • Vote here for the logo you like best (thanks Jonas for the logo and Benjamien for the Zandbak and Discussiepagina idea!).
  • To make a summer schedule, please indicate your holiday plans below (Practical stuff - Planned summer holidays). The last exam is on June 27th.
  • Since the engineers want to see what's going on in the lab, and the biologists/bio-engineers want to learn about modeling, we'll organize some introductory tutorials in the beginning of the summer holidays.
  • Put ideas and suggestions for the wiki here.
  • Inge will inform whether the students can stay at the Studentenwijk Arenberg during the summer holidays.
  • You are all welcome to join the [http://www.kuleuven.be/bioscenter/ BioSCENTer launch event] (Wednesday 28th, Max Weber auditorium, Parkstraat 51). Our iGEM participation will be presented between 15.35 and 15.45.
  • Check out the [http://www.kuleuven.be/bioscenter/igem iGEM website] at [http://www.kuleuven.be/bioscenter BioSCENTer].


  • Good luck with the exams!


2nd Brainstorm

Please indicate [http://www.doodle.ch/792ach8ydtxfzf9y here] when you're available. The final time slot will be announced on Thursday June 5th at 16h.

Two things to think about when choosing a project (from the Teachers Workshop):

  • divide the project into subparts in such a way that the whole project does not fail if one subpart fails / aim for intermediate goals and aim further if remaining time allows
  • iGEM is about doing synthetic biology based on standard parts, not about freestyle synthetic biology, however great that can be


Background reading

Practical stuff

nickvd: I propose to start working on the project the first week of July (read: Monday 7th). In that way we can get some rest after the exams, recharge our batteries so we can start working with a clear mind and full of motivation!

  • That would be excellent, because I' m going to Werchter... So I'm available starting from Monday 7th --Hanne 20:05, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
  • I am also back on the 7th. --Andim
  • ...

Are there people that can start on Monday 30th of June or somewhere that week? For instance because they have few exams, don't like holidays... ;) For some BioBricks playing-around, preliminary testing, toy-modeling etc. --Inge

  • My last exam is on the 25th... I'll have a headache for the first two days and then I would like to review certain things on PID-controllers and Matlab, so I figure I should be able to start soon. --Antoine
  • I am can start the 30th, but don't know if I will be able to be there all day. However, from the 31st afternoon, I can start for sure. Benjamien
  • I should be able to start the 1st of July. Nathalie
  • Normally I can also start the 30th of june Jan
  • I don't mind messing about a bit that first week, so no problem for me Jonas

Planned summer holidays

  • IT: August 2nd-17th
  • Benjamien: August 2nd-17th
  • nickvd: no holiday plans, only moving plans the first week of July. I would also prefer to end somewhere around September 10th to get some rest before my thesis year.
  • Stefanie: no holiday plans, only moving plans the first week of July.
  • Hanne: August 11th-17th, and two very short mini-breaks, but they aren't planned yet.
  • Jonas: I'm out of town September 15-21 and end of july, no other plans yet
  • Elke: September 12th-19th
  • Jan: In the beginning of september I'm probably expected to start in the lab with my thesis, but maybe I can also work a week for my thesis in august so I can also participate a week in IGEM in september. I'll try to arrange what fits with my promotor, but it's too early to say. I don't have holiday plans yet, but if there's a gap when there's no work for IGEM, I'll probably go on holiday :)
  • Nathalie: I only planned something from June 28th until July 1st. So normally, I will be available all the time.
  • maarten: no holiday plans so far, but like nick I would also prefer to end somewhere around September 10th so I can relax a bit before I start working on my thesis
  • Antoine: 3 short breaks in August, not planned yet though
  • Andim: June 24th- July7th I will be at home in Istanbul, then the weekend after I am not here.

What not to forget

  • international passport
  • team t-shirt (check whether we can use Jan Fabre's Totem)



Interesting reads

Teaching resources


  • [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Imperial_College/Courses/Spring2008/Synthetic_Biology Imperial College Introduction to Synthetic Biology Spring 2008]
  • [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Imperial_College/Courses/Spring2008/Synthetic_Biology/Computer_Modelling_Practicals Imperial College Computer Modelling Practicals Spring 2008]
  • [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Intertech:iSB2008 Valencia Introduction to Synthetic Biology 2008]

Software resources

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial A wiki tutorial that can be very useful]
  • [http://sbml.org SBML]
  • [http://www.systems-biology.org/cd/index.html CellDesigner]

General


  • [http://www.nature.com/nature/comics/syntheticbiologycomic/index.html synthetic biology comic]


iGEM and BioBricks


  • [http://parts.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Resources introductory resources on the iGEM competition]
  • [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php/Help:Team_experience_tutorial iGEM tutorial]
  • [http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:IMPERIAL/2006/project/Oscillator/Theoretical_Analyses example of an iGEM model - Imperial 2006]


  • [http://partsregistry.org/Main_Page Registry of Standard Biological Parts]
  • [http://partsregistry.org/Help:IGEM_08_DNA_distribution BioBricks 2008 spring distribution]
  • [http://partsregistry.org/Measurement BioBricks measurement]
  • [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Parts_characterization parts characterization]


Original research papers and reviews



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