Team:Newcastle/Meetings/30 September 2009

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23 September 2009 - iGEM Meeting

Note meeting moved one day forward, from the 24th.
  • Chair: Arun
  • Students: James, Mat, Arun, Hanny
  • Minutes: Mat
  • Instructors: Jen, Neil
  • Advisors: Morgan

Agenda

  • General News
  • Review last week's action points
  • Lab summary (Goksel and Hanny)
  • Wiki (Mat)
  • Presentation (Arun)
  • Poster (Jess)
  • Modelling (James)
  • T-shirt/Marketing (Jess)
  • Questions

Last Week's Action Points

  • Need to update Goksel and Hanny on monday at internal meeting - done
  • Design sequencing primers for pMutin4 and GFP-rrnB - not done
  • Make some changes on t-shirt designs: restriction sites (Hanny)
  • 11 person's name on t-shirts : NEIL, JEN, MORGAN, MATT, MATHEW, GOKSEL, ARUN, JESSICA, HANNY, JAMES, JANE
  • Ask Dan if he wants DAN or DANIEL
  • Everyone needs to do ESTA
  • Create a page on the wiki about ethics
  • Fill Valencia's questionnaire
  • Update timeline (James)
  • Get Hanny guest student card
  • Search for other websites for those green "bugs" (Jess)
  • Contact Nigel Robinson to use his lab and the electronmicroscope
  • Citate the papers in the wiki for metal sensing. Quote short sentences where necessary.


Minutes

General News

  • Jane has returned
  • Goksel and Hanny in labs; rest of team are working on wiki, presentation, poster, etc.
  • Goksel to send DNA off to the Parts Registry


Last Week's Action Points

  • Need to update Goksel and Hanny on Monday at internal meeting
    • Done! Had internal meeting on Monday and discussed lab details.


  • Design sequencing primers for pMutin4 and GFP-rrnB
    • Still ongoing
    • Arun has been assigned the task.


  • Make some changes on t-shirt designs: restriction sites
    • Hanny was assigned this task
    • The t-shirt has been modified and is ready to submit to printing companies


  • 11 person's name on t-shirts : NEIL, JEN, MORGAN, MATT, MATHEW, GOKSEL, ARUN, JESSICA, HANNY, JAMES, JANE - are they right?
    • All correct


  • Ask Dan if he wants DAN or DANIEL
    • Dan had told Matthew Pocock that he prefers "Dan" rather than "Daniel"


  • Everyone needs to do ESTA
    • Everyone apart from Matt Pocock has done so


  • Create a page on the wiki about ethics
    • Mathew has been assigned the task
    • Needs to read articles by Jane Calvert from Edinburgh University as well as some of Prof. Wipat's PhD thesis.
    • Also could use data from Edinburgh trip (iGEM meet-up)


  • Fill in Valencia's questionnaire
    • Everyone in team needs to fill it in


  • Update timeline
    • James has updated it


  • Get Hanny guest student card
    • Not as yet - Hanny needs to remind Neil and Jen


  • Search for other websites for those green "bugs"
    • Jess assigned to task - unsure of progress as she is absent from meeting


  • Contact Nigel Robinson to use his lab and the electron microscope
    • Not done yet
    • Mathew has now been assigned task


  • Citate the papers in the wiki for metal sensing. Quote short sentences where necessary
    • Ongoing


Lab Work Update

  • Hanny and Goksel updated the team on the labwork
  • NEW ACTION POINT - need to sequence BioBrick
    • Hanny has been assigned the task


Wiki update

  • Mathew has been assigned the task - gave a few pointers in meeting describing changes needed to certain pages


  • NEW ACTION POINT - look at Imperial iGEM 2008 website to find out how to do video


  • NEW ACTION POINT - redraw and add colour to diagram on front page currently (the process chart)
    • Maybe use Omnigraffle for the Mac seen as the Mac was used to create the diagram


  • NEW ACTION POINT - the "Eco Warrior" story, which is currently on the front page of the wiki, needs to go in the 'Fun and Games' section.


  • NEW ACTION POINT - 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


Presentation Update

  • Sub-project teams need to send at least two slides with some information on them.


  • Presentation practice to be held on 23rd October - times to be decided.


Poster Update

  • Jess is leading this task
  • Jess needs to update team by next week



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