iGEM 2015 — Team Tec_Guadalajara

# Team:Tec Guadalajara/Notebook

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* [Notebook](https://2015.igem.org/Team%3ATec_Guadalajara/Notebook)

March
:   March 31st
    :   We registered our team and paid the fee.

April
:   April 1st to April 30th
    :   Research! We learned about graphene, the existing methods of synthesis and how we could overcome the existing issues using synthetic biology.

    April 29th
    :   IDT Webinar

May
:   May 1st
    :   Part of the team traveled to Monterrey for the weekend to attend the IGEM Meet Up organized by team Tec-Monterrey. Here we met and started to build our friendship with other Latin American teams.

    May 6th
    :   the IGEM team from Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León (UANL) sent us a manual of very useful IGEM protocols.

    May 10th
    :   Meeting with lawyer Mariana Manzano to learn about property rights

    May 15th
    :   We applied for SYNENERGENE’s Partneship

    May 18th
    :   Skype meeting with iGEM team from Instituto Politécnico Nacional. They helped us double check our construct design and wet lab strategies. They also offered to send us a strain of *P. pastoris* in the next few days.

    May 20th to May 30th
    :   We presented our project to our university’s directors and professors

June
:   June 1st to June 30th
    :   We started looking for sponsors, making calls and sending letters to help finance our project

    June 1st
    :   We had our first meeting with Dr. Carlos Guzman who became our chemical advisor for the rest of the project

    June 8th
    :   We started buying reagents and we ordered the synthesis of our genes to IDT

    June 15th
    :   The production process of our promotional video started. We coordinated efforts with Carmen Garcia, video director and producer.

    June 20th
    :   We had our first team celebration. We had a BBQ with all our team members and some of our advisors to relax and strengthen our friendship

July
:   July 4th
    :   Chemical experimentation begins. While we waited for our genes to arrive we decided to start working on the chemical process.

    July 31st
    :   Giant Jamboree Entrance Fees were covered for five of our team members. Their plane tickets were purchased as well.

August
:   August 1st
    :   Promotional video was ready and we launched our Indie Gogo campaign to get some funds. Everyone shared the video on social media with friends and family.

    August 10th
    :   Our genes arrived! We were so happy! We started getting everything ready so we could start the wet lab work.

    August 15th
    :   Wet lab work started.

    August 22nd
    :   Graphene samples were sent to be analyzed and characterized

    August 26th
    :   We launched two online forums and invited other IGEM teams to participate.

    August 30th
    :   We began working on our wiki, our presentation and poster

September
:   September 2nd
    :   We began rehearsing the presentation with our friends and professors to get some feedback and improve our skills

    September 10th
    :   Results from graphene analysis were back. We had great news and we confirmed we had actually synthetized high quality graphene.

    September 14th
    :   We started preparing our biobricks to be sent to IGEM before the deadline

    September 17th
    :   We finished our wiki! Just in time

    September 24th to September 28th
    :   We presented at the Giant Jamboree and obtained a [bronze medal](https://2015.igem.org/Results)!