Week Two

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 ivin biological sculptures and thinking up ideas of presentation at the jamboree.

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Today's Reading:

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

May 25th

Presentation ideas- Bollywood sculpture?

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  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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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

How to create a gel electrophoresis chamber:

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Today's Reading:

A synthetic Oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators

May 27th

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

http://umassigem.blogspot.com/

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

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  Spider-artist? A spider made to crawl through watercolor on white paper in a one-holed plastic box overnight.

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  An attempt to trace its movement in colors. Perhaps record a pattern?Would this be art?

Sandeep's Mustard seeds

May 29th

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  Neha's 'TheArtScientist'-Page 1

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  TheArtScientist-Page 2