week 6: Tax Exempt DNA Paper

This week I started fundraising for the magazine and launched the online portion of it. One of our stories is on Team Albertas project they presented at IGEM last week, it's a really cool concept that cuts part construction down to a few minutes. Also It's pretty exhausting trying to convince people to sponsor a completely untested idea by a stranger but I think we are doing a good job so far. I'm pretty excited how it's going to turn out, we have some really good writers, Andrew Hessel, Ben Krasnow, Bryan Bishop, Cathal Garvey,Forrest Flanagan, Lawrence Schembri.

On Thursday at DIYbioHou we showed presentations of a few top projects from IGEM. My favorite being Team Slovenia who developed a way to use Zn fingers to bind bioparts to a sequence of DNA to give you more control over the linearity of synthetic systems. I was a little nervous because I thought I'd been scooped but thankfully I hadn't and their designs will improve my research project. As for the meeting, We had a decent turnout, 6 people including a random bio prof from Rice.

I also spent alot of time this week working on the projections and budget for OSF so that our 501(c)3 application goes smoothly come January. OSF is already a non-profit corporation but Tax exempt status

would make alot of things easier even if means alot more paperwork for me.

Total Hours of Service Learning: Bio(6) + Paper (13) + OSF (7) = 26 hours