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=== ''May 22nd'' ===
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=== '''May 22nd''' ===
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We still spent the initial part of the week reading up a lot on various topics related to art,science and technology, trying to guage what exactly our project was and could be.
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Parallely, we applied our imagination onto various small scale projects such as making our own livin biological sculptures and thinking up ideas of presentation at the jamboree.
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However, we were still thinking from the perspective of an art/design student and were applying only our previous background-based understanding.
  
 
'''Today's Reading:'''
 
'''Today's Reading:'''
  
[[File:Jenshauser.png|400px|thumb|left|Some basics of Gene Expression and production of Proteins and Enzymes by Genes]]
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'''Observations of an Art of Growing Interest:'''
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Jenshauser
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Some basics of Gene Expression and production of Proteins and Enzymes by Genes
  
 
===May 25th===
 
===May 25th===
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File:Nehasculpture.jpg| Neha's Rain Sculpture : Feet on rain drops
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File:krupakar_sc.jpg| Krupakar's Machine
File:sandeep-machine.png|Its this big box. There is a projection of a window looking out into rain. All the paraphanalia can fit in the space below. fog machine?. The curtain goes all round.
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File:sandeep-machine.png|Sandeep's Machine: Its this big box. There is a projection of a window looking out into rain. All the paraphanalia can fit in the space below. Fog machine?. The curtain goes all round.
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File:Installation_idea.jpg| Upasana's Installation
 
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2) Do not get lost in the references beyond 2 layers
 
2) Do not get lost in the references beyond 2 layers
  
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'''We wanted to create our own gel-electrophoresis chamber, so we looked up various guides on the internet and chose this to be the best out of them:'''
  
 
How to create a gel electrophoresis chamber:
 
How to create a gel electrophoresis chamber:
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'''Today's Reading:'''
 
'''Today's Reading:'''
  
[http://www.elowitz.caltech.edu/publications/Repressilator.pdf A synthetic Oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators]
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'''A synthetic Oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators:'''
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[http://www.elowitz.caltech.edu/publications/Repressilator.pdf ]
  
 
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===May 27th===
 
===May 27th===
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'''The Open Gel Box:'''
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http://openwetware.org/wiki/DIYbio:Notebook/Open_Gel_Box_2.0/RFC1
 
http://openwetware.org/wiki/DIYbio:Notebook/Open_Gel_Box_2.0/RFC1
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'''A blog about the 2009 UMass Amherst iGEM team :'''
  
 
http://umassigem.blogspot.com/
 
http://umassigem.blogspot.com/
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'''Extracting DNA from Strawberries:'''
  
 
http://diybio.org/2009/03/20/extract-dna-from-strawberries/
 
http://diybio.org/2009/03/20/extract-dna-from-strawberries/
 
  
 
===May 28th===
 
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'''Bio-Sculptures:'''
 
'''Bio-Sculptures:'''
  
Avni's 'Chicken in a Kaleidoscope'
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Avni's '''''Chicken in a Kaleidoscope'''''
  
Neha's '''From a Spider'''
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Neha's '''''From a Spider'''''
  
 
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Sandeep's '''''Mustard Seeds'''''
Sandeep's Mustard seeds
 
  
 
=== May 29th ===
 
=== May 29th ===

Latest revision as of 08:17, 24 June 2009

May 22nd

We still spent the initial part of the week reading up a lot on various topics related to art,science and technology, trying to guage what exactly our project was and could be.

Parallely, we applied our imagination onto various small scale projects such as making our own livin biological sculptures and thinking up ideas of presentation at the jamboree.

However, we were still thinking from the perspective of an art/design student and were applying only our previous background-based understanding.

Today's Reading:

Observations of an Art of Growing Interest:

Jenshauser Some basics of Gene Expression and production of Proteins and Enzymes by Genes

May 25th

Presentation ideas- Bollywood sculpture?


How to read a scientific Paper by Mukund

1) Scan through the entire article quickly and find out what they are saying or trying to say.

2) Do not get lost in the references beyond 2 layers

We wanted to create our own gel-electrophoresis chamber, so we looked up various guides on the internet and chose this to be the best out of them:

How to create a gel electrophoresis chamber:

[[1]]


Today's Reading:

A synthetic Oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators:

[2]


May 27th

The Open Gel Box:

http://openwetware.org/wiki/DIYbio:Notebook/Open_Gel_Box_2.0/RFC1

A blog about the 2009 UMass Amherst iGEM team :

http://umassigem.blogspot.com/

Extracting DNA from Strawberries:

http://diybio.org/2009/03/20/extract-dna-from-strawberries/

May 28th

Bio-Sculptures:

Avni's Chicken in a Kaleidoscope

Neha's From a Spider

Sandeep's Mustard Seeds

May 29th