Wiki development is underway!
Producing nickel columns in the lab for experiments.
Growing our first Rosetta culture - the mCherry batch (left) has come out a lot better.
Ruby hard at work.
Very exciting when the results come back!
Wiki development continues!
Anouska, Nigella and Yara carrying out the purification of the blank and mCherry controls through the nickel columns!.
Actual (left) and simulated (right) results of a test to check for the presence of our plasmids. Left-to-right, these are Cas13a, Cas12, mCherry and a blank control plasmid.
To keep morale high, the occasional team-building activity has taken place as a brief respite from iGEMing - such as this impromptu exercise session...
Becky readying plates for over-night Rosetta growth.
Some wiki work with te rest of the group. Anouska is woring don't worry.
Thermocycling Rosetta and BL21 derived cas protein samples in preperation for a western blot!
Western blots indicating CAS presence
Cultivating and harvesting Rosetta and BL21!
mCherry is a Roestta culture showing up strongly in the dark.
Tom pipetting simulated blood into flouroscein and PBS to measure amount of flourescence!
Trying to figure out how hinges function in order to draw then in CAD for our hardware design!
Our weekly meeting catching everybody up to date on the progress of different parts of the project!
Ben keeping a close eye on his protein purification.
More protein prufication pictures
A few members of the team are climbing fans. Here Yik Ting (one of our supervisors) is photographed during a session.
First time 3D printing one of our hardware prototypes!
Ruby shows off our work so far at the iGEM meetup in Warwick!
Testing our hardware circuits!
Results from Cas12a crRNA transcription
To work with our app, we had a go at 3D printing a box to contain our samples to cut out external light and allow maximum contrast for photos. Here is the first prototype.
Ben's hunt for a recording studio to record our narration for the video was not entirely successful - but he did find the theatre props store. That could make for a very interesting video...
Yara searching for a good spot for team photos.
All our results are good results in this iGEM project. In theory.
Ben and Yara looking through the photos for the teams page!
Managed to get pigs blood from the abattoir for flouroscien experiments.
Getting ready to meet the Pennstate iGEM team through teams!
Nigella making the opening logo animation for the wiki home page!
Anouska making the animated explanation of Cas proteins for our promo video
Yara and Ruby taking pictures of Nigella for the team wiki page
don't microwave fish, kids
Wiki development is underway!
Wiki development is underway!