Team:Newcastle/Meetings/23 July 2009

23 July 2009 - iGEM Meeting

 * Chair: Jess
 * Students: Jess, Goksel, Jane, James, Mat, Arun, Hanny
 * Minutes: Arun


 * BELOW IS LAST WEEK'S MEETING DETAILS

Agenda

 * Review previous meeting action points
 * Review new action points
 * Discuss lab schedule
 * Go through each group's presentations

Action Points during 09 July 09 Meeting

 * Heavy Metal Network model - ongoing (Goksel, Jess)
 * Stochastic Inverter model - ongoing (Arun, Mathew, Hanny)
 * Sporulation Tuning & Population model - ongoing (James, Jane)
 * Prioritise BioBricks - ongoing
 * PL - ongoing
 * Write up about Cadmium and the environment - ongoing (Jess, Mathew)
 * Lab space - ongoing (Jane)
 * Week break before the start of new school term - ongoing
 * Thoughts and ideas from iGem UK get-together
 * Write-up about social and ethics implications arised from synthetic biology and the project - Awaiting e-mail from Edinburgh university regarding thoughts and ideas generated during the activity
 * Side bar/hyper links on biological terms used in the project - ongoing
 * Jen to get syn biology toolbox
 * Jen or Neil to e-mail Megan regarding clarity on the requirement/rule no. 1 to achieve the Gold medal.
 * Team to help (ongoing)
 * Write up on the use of Cadmium in the lab (ongoing)
 * Summary of achievements on frontpage with links to evidence (ongoing)

Modelling

 * Need another repressor to replace the promoter for the Cad A system (Mathew, Hanny, Arun)
 * Decide on a set of environmental issues first (ongoing)
 * Device a method to differentiate Cd from the other metals
 * Integrate the sin I operon into the big picture (James, Jame)
 * E-mail Jeff Erringon regarding sinI and sin R (Mathew sent e-mail on 13/07/09)
 * Make appointment with Goksel to seek clarity on sinI, sinR model (James, Jane) - Pending
 * Make appointment with Morgan to seek clarity on population model (James, Jane) - Done
 * Ask Morgan for link to her modelling research
 * Model big picture model (James, Jane)
 * Model of the invertable segments to find X and Y (Jess, Goksel)
 * Need Hin degradation (LVA) (Jess, Goksel)
 * E-mail Colin Harwood regarding GerM (Mathew sent e-mail on 13/07/09)
 * Change X & Y to X1, X2, and Y1, Y2 (Arun)

Wiki

 * Review main wiki (ongoing)
 * Upload diagram onto the main wiki (Arun)
 * Update external wiki's intro (to be more scientific, might be due on 1st August) (Jess and team)
 * Write up and justify a paragraphy as to why our project is concentrating on soil (Mathew and team)
 * Remember to change B.subtilis to italic (ongoing)
 * Upload internal wiki to external (ongoing)
 * Update timetable (ongoing)
 * Write up a small introduction about yourself on main wiki (ongoing)
 * Upload Edinburgh get-together pictures (Jane)
 * Idea - Greeting in different languages

Misc.

 * Remind Jen and Neil to settle payment (get in touch with CSGPN) (Jane sent e-mail on 15/07/09)
 * Remind Jen and Neil to settle flights and hotels (Jane sent e-mail on 15/07/09)
 * Jane to e-mail Jen and Neil, to request for a guest student card (Jane sent e-mail on 15/07/09)
 * Remind Jen to e-mail scanned documents

Minutes

 * Lab Rota
 * We will be able to get 2 teams at once
 * Chrissie will be cleaning up her bench for us
 * Need to put more photos on the external wikis, especially instructors' pictures
 * Shuttle vector (E.Coli to B.subtilis): Neil couldn't find one of those, maybe dead end? Have asked Cambridge about it, they said that they submitted a vector last year but it's doesn't work well. Maybe could we improve it?
 * Think about helping another team: look at Groningen's BioBricks, and think about swapping bricks.
 * Revise the advisor list on the wiki
 * Does Pr.Nigel Robinson want to be on the mailing list and an advicer?
 * Try and learn how to use Sequencher and Clone Manager
 * Marketing team ( Mat and Arun ) to get the money. We have raised 12,000pounds, need an extra 5,000 pounds. Neil gave a list of companies we can talk to.


 * Presentations
 * Sporulation/Population Modelling team
 * Stochastic switch team
 * Metal intake team

Action Points for the next meeting

 * Ask about project description (Jess)
 * Send BioBrick design to Neil (Arun)
 * Ask Pr.Nigel Robinson if he wants to be an advisor (Mat)
 * Think about the project title; BacMan,the Quest to Sequester?
 * Need to put more pictures on the wiki (Mat)
 * Collect pictures of the team from those who took pictures (Arun)
 * Write personal descriptions on the wiki and ask the instructors and advisor to do so (Arun)
 * 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 (Goksel)
 * Put modelling stuff and presentations on the wiki (Mat)
 * Need to calculate how much the stochastic BioBrick will cost (Jess)