Team:Newcastle/Meetings/12 October 2009

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12 October 2009 - iGEM Internal Meeting

  • Chair: James
  • Students:
  • Minutes: Jane

Agenda

  • General News
  • Review last week's general action points
  • Review last week's specialist action points
  • Give summaries in the following areas:
    • Lab Work (Goksel and Hanny)
    • Wiki (Mat)
    • Presentation (Arun)
    • Poster (Jess)
    • Modelling (James)
      • SBML/CELLML Models
      • Parameters for PopMod
    • T-shirt/Marketing (Jess)
  • Questions

Last Week's General Action Points

  • Design sequencing primers for pMutin4 and GFP-rrnB (Arun)
  • Create a page on the wiki about ethics (Mathew)
  • Fill Valencia's questionnaire (everyone)
  • Get Hanny guest student card
  • Search for other websites for those green "bugs" (Jess)
    • Could make our own green bugs
  • Contact Nigel Robinson to use his lab and the electronmicroscope
  • Citate the papers in the wiki for metal sensing. Quote short sentences where necessary.
  • Goksel to send DNA off to Parts Registry.

Last Week's Specialist Action Points

Lab

  • Hanny to sequence BioBricks
  • Goksel is to go on some safety courses, if he is to be in the lab in the future.

Wiki

  • Need to update lab work section
  • Need to study Imperial 2008 iGEM wiki's video for ideas.
  • Redraw and add colour to diagram on front page currently (the process chart) - possibly using Omnigraffle for Mac
  • The "Eco Warrior" story, which is currently on the front page of the wiki, needs to go in the 'Fun and Games' section.
  • Put a diagram of a Bacillus subtilis' cell on the front page of the wiki with elements of the project e.g. Cadmium sensing, stochastic switch, etc included
  • Put safty info on wiki.
  • Header photo to be changed.
  • Need to change format of Matt's video, and upload. (James)

Presentation

  • Sub-project teams need to send at least two slides with some information on them.
  • Presentation practice to be held on 23rd October 1pm
  • Still doing a presentation in Sunderland?

Poster

  • Jess needs to update team by next week
  • Each team to create document for the poster creation.
  • Need to get back to sponsors to show them what we have achieved.
  • Could use a complex wheel to point to various points of the poster.

Modelling

  • Work out parameter values, and how to integrate into population model.
  • Inspect G.g.n's code for online model (James)

T-shirt/Marketing

  • Get t-shirt designs to printing company
  • Due to the situation - reduce the number to about 15, and increase the price £20-30
  • Could get it partially done by professionals, then iron on bits - small logos.
  • Could use white shirts.
  • Could use other companies.



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