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
News
Events
- 20 – 21 June 2009 - Europe workshop (London)
- 23 – 24 June 2009 - UK iGEM meetup (Edinburgh)
- 23 October Practice Presentation (Newcastle)
- 23 October T-shirts are ready
- 27 October Practice Presentation (Sunderland)
- 27 October Poster is ready
- 30 October – 2 November 2009 - Jamboree (Boston)
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