Monday

  • Morning
    • Straighten out funding situation
    • Review wiki structure
    • (Re-)organize experimental subgroups
    • Begin documenting experimental plans
      • Purpose
      • Materials / DNA needed
      • Protocol (links are fine for now)
      • Expected results
  • Afternoon
    • Professional Development (PD):  Brief GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology overview
      • I propose we implement the scheduling/prioritization part of GTD, because we had trouble with that last year.
      • It turns out that Confluence formally supports the concept of a "task" (for making lists of tasks).  Who wants to figure out how to use it?
    • Register for iGEM and NEGEM.
    • DNA needed --> assembly strategy
      • hopefully all the way to the primers we're gonna need, so BT can order them. (-:

Tuesday

  • Morning
    • Review experimental plans with Ron.
    • (Likely) continue DNA design.
    • Research some of the questions that we come up with on Monday and with Ron on Tues (from literature)
  • Afternoon
    • If it's a nice day: portraits!
    • Professional Development (PD): Brian gives journal club.  Less about the science, more about the process of reading and presenting a paper
    • (Re)organize the NONexperimental groups, come up with game-plans, set goals.

Wednesday

  • Morning
    • Review experimental plans (once more with feeling (by which I mean more detail)) with Ron, answering the questions we came up with answers to
    • Primers ordered Monday show up.  Into the lab!  PCR and GGs, likely, to make your first pENTRs.
  • Afternoon
    • If Tues wasn't a nice day: portraits!
    • PD: Not sure yet.
    • More lab work.

 

Thursday

  • Morning
    • Now we're into the usual swing of things.  Morning meeting w/ Ron, plans laid and debated, etc.
    • Lab work
  • Afternoon
    • PD: Weekly review.  (Another bit of GTD.)
    • Lab work.
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