Thanks to everybody who came out to the AMBL Science Field Trip! We hope you enjoyed the lessons on genetics, the AMBL Jeopardy (and it’s live music), and hope that you will continue to support the club in the future!
Here are some photos from the field trip – please enjoy them!
The Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory (AMBL) will be holding a special one-day Science Field Trip FREE for UBC iGEM members! You will be performing DNA fingerprinting analysis – commonly used by forensic scientists and CSI – to check for genetic elements in your own DNA. Using the powerful PCR technique, you will be isolating and amplifying your DNA then analyzing it for the Alu genetic element. This field trip promises to a fun and entertaining way to get into contemporary molecular biology!
Where: Advanced Molecular Biology Lab, Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC (Map)
When: Friday May 14th, 2010
How to Sign Up: RSVP Here. Spaces are limited and FREE Admission for iGEM Club Members and only $5 for non-members. Password: check in by e-mailing the execs.
There will be no Journal Club this term. Special thanks to those who presented and participated this year!
We are hosting a movie night, featuring GATTACA, to wrap things up for this term. It is will this Wednesday (April 7) from 5-7 in MSL 101. This is a good way to hang out, relax, and not think about project selection (although we will still be thinking about bioethics!) before finals are here. Popcorn will be provided!
This week, Rafael Saer will be presenting a paper titled “Wiring photosystem I for direct solar hydrogen production” from Biochemistry. 2010 Jan 26;49(3):404-14. (PMID: 19947649)
If anyone wants to read the paper beforehand and has trouble getting a hold of it, please send Eric Finlay (enfinlay at gmail.com) a message with your e-mail address so he can forward it to you.
Please RSVP via doodle: http://www.doodle.com/qfm2fitvyzd9fi5t
or sign up to the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=283602903005
Topic: Photosystem I for Direct Solar Hydrogen Production
Presenter: Rafael Saer
Snacks: Simon
Time: Feb.3 @ 4:30-5:30
Location: MSL 101
See you there!!
Many thanks,
2010 iGEM of UBC Journal Club Director
Hey everybody,
The next JC meeting is going to be held on the 27th of January 2010. The meeting will be back in our regular room (MSL 101) at our regular time (4:30).
This week, Eric Finlay will be presenting a summary of Team BCCS-Bristol’s 2009 iGEM submission. Their team website can be found here: http://2009.igem.org/Team:BCCS-Bristol if anyone is interested. I hope everyone can make it out!
So, in summary, here’s the details:
* Date: 27 January 2010
* Time: 4:30PM – 5:30PM (please be punctual!)
* Venue: MSL101
* Links:
o Discussions: http://discussions.ubcigem.com/
o RSVP: http://www.doodle.com/wtix6uhmrqvrug4x
o Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=435076815649&index=1
See you there!!
Many thanks,
2010 iGEM of UBC Journal Club Director
Hey everybody,
The next JC meeting is going to be held on the 20th of January 2010. The meeting will be back in our regular room (MSL 101) at our regular time (4:30).
This coming JC, Eric Ma will be presenting a paper titled, Automated design of synthetic ribosome binding sites to control protein expression.
So, in summary, here’s the details:
See you there!!
Many thanks,
2010 iGEM of UBC Journal Club Director
We’d like to let everybody know about our new Journal Club Director, Eric Finlay. Eric Finlay is an Engineering Physics student currently in his 2nd year at UBC, and has taken an interest in synthetic biology very recently. As an exec, we’re really excited to have him on board to work with us to make the club an even better organization!
The next JC meeting is going to be held on the 13th of January 2010. Due to a scheduling conflict, the meeting will start at 5:00pm rather than 4:30pm. Because of room bookings, we will be holding the meeting at MSL237 instead of MSL101. Please be punctual, as the MSL locks down at 5:00PM!
This coming JC, Hank Yu will be presenting a paper titled, Antimicrobial activities of commercial nanoparticles against an
environmental soil microbe, Pseudomonas putida KT2440.
So, in summary, here’s the details:
Links:
See you there!!
The next Journal Club Meeting is this Wednesday (2nd December 2009), 4:30PM. It will be held in room 101 at the Michael Smith Laboratories (next to the bookstore). The “Journal Club” series bring people together to discuss cutting-edge scientific research in Synthetic Biology. This is also the place where next year’s project will be formed and evaluated. For this week, Shing Hei Zhan will be providing snacks, and Charles will be presenting a talk titled “BioBytes: The Next Generation”, which is a talk on the 2009 University of Alberta’s iGEM Team Project, which also won the “Best Foundational Advance” award, ahead of team Heidelberg (they were the runners-up in the entire competition), who also competed in the same category.
Charles was one of the founding team members of the 2009 iGEM Team. He has a wealth of scientific education behind him, having graduated with two Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and in Biotechnology. He also works as a Bioinformatician at the Hallam Lab in the Life Sciences Centre, and was recently named as one of the authors in a paper published in Science. (Just so you know, Science is on of the biggest journals to publish in!)
Essential information:
* Date: 2 December 2009
* Time: 4:30PM to 5:30PM
* Venue: MSL101
* Speaker: Charles Howes
* Talk Title: BioBytes: The Next Generation
* Snacks: Shing Hei Zhan
