Team:Newcastle/Meetings/30 September 2009

= 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.

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