Team:Newcastle/Meetings/13 August 2009

13 August 2009 - iGEM Meeting

 * Chair: Goksel
 * Students: Goksel, Jess, Arun, Mat, James, Jane
 * Minutes: Jess
 * Instructors: Neil
 * Advisors: Daniel, Morgan

Agenda

 * Lab Summary
 * Review last week's action points
 * Tomorrow's and next week's lab plans.
 * Cloning strategies
 * Registration and bookings

Action Points during last meeting

 * Design biobricks and primers in Sequencher (Metal:Done/Stochastic:/Tuning:?)
 * Submit Preliminary Project Track details to iGEM HQ by 7 August (done)
 * Change NheI cutsite with another cutsite in the designs since it is used in the integration vectors (Done)
 * Find the integration vector to use at the lab (Done)
 * Find out for which nongerminating strains is the protocol (done - both)
 * Use pmutin4's promoter for the pspac promoter in the designs (done)
 * Do not knock out the original cotC in Bacillus subtilis strain (done)
 * Write to the Cornell team for collaboration (done)
 * Contact to Groningen team (Neil)
 * Ask Pr.Nigel Robinson if he wants to be an advisor (done)
 * Think about the project title; BacMan,the Quest to Sequester? - Morgan likes, accepted.
 * Need to put more pictures on the wiki (Mat).
 * Collect pictures of the team from those who took pictures (Arun)- ongoing
 * Have a look at the shuttle vector that Cambridge submitted last year (Leave for later).
 * Look at Groningen's BioBrick design (leave for later).
 * Need to set up a meeting with Noel from Sunderland (Mat-done).
 * Put modelling stuff and presentations on the wiki (Mat).
 * Are Millipore still a sponsor? (Arun).
 * T-shirts to be designed.