Team:Newcastle/Meetings/16 March 2009

Agenda of the Meeting (16/03/09)

 * Come up with the project title
 * Create the frontpage of the wiki
 * Discuss our project title (combination of the 1st and 3rd idea)
 * Come up with the paragraph summarising our project idea to be put up on the external wiki

Agenda of the Meeting (18/03/09)

 * Introduce ourselves to Nigel Robinson
 * Review last meetings action points
 * Present our ideas in the form of a flowchart/movie clip
 * Feedback and discussion
 * Questions
 * Show paragraph summarising our idea
 * Review additional things

NEW Action Points From Last Meeting

 * Review the questions and challenges put forward for each idea
 * Do additional reading/research into ideas but more of an emphasis on the first and third ideas
 * Finalise an idea and write a paragraph on the idea to be posted in the main wiki
 * Reschedule wiki tutorial with Morgan.

Minutes of the Meeting (16/03/09)

 * Start: 5p.m at Claremont Tower Room 601, End: 7p.m
 * Reviewed previous actions points
 * Funding - Done (Jessica)
 * Briefly discussed about BioBricks
 * Discussed about the awarding of the medals
 * Our project would probably be based on the environmental side
 * Some of the "easier" awards which can be more "easily" obtained are: Best Wiki, Best Poster, Best Environmental Project, Best Presentations, etc.
 * One of the criteria for the medal is to help a team, helping a new team would probably be easier.
 * To make our wiki more attractive, a banner using flash, javascript would be desired, referred to iGEM2008 Heidelberg's wiki as a good reference of a nice wiki.
 * Brainstormed on the paragraph on our idea to be put on the external wiki.
 * Brainstormed for our title, coming up with keywords such as
 * Heavy metals
 * Stochastic switch
 * Soil/mud
 * Tunable
 * Sporulation
 * Sequester
 * Spores
 * Thousand years memory
 * Scavenge
 * Hunter
 * Seeker
 * Basillus Subtillis
 * Kamikaze/Suicde
 * The Quest to Sequester
 * Discussed that, perhaps, with the combination of the two ideas, could just use UV light to shine to "test" the sample, instead of having to take a sample and bringing it back to the lab for testing.
 * Discussed that antibodies could be used in identifying the spores.
 * Questions
 * How to extract the metals from the cell?
 * How can we get metalloproteins into the cells?
 * Sporulation is induced due to stress, how much metal can we get into the cell?

Action Points of the Meeting (16/03/09)

 * Familiarise self with BioBricks, website to go: www.partsregistry.org - ALL
 * Craig, Matthew, Arun to come up with the presentation slides, with the addition of pictures, flow diagrams, instead of just words to present the idea.
 * Read Nigel Robinson's paper (11 pages) in preparation for Wednesday's (18/03/09) meeting - ALL
 * Think of questions to ask regarding Nigel Robinson's paper - ALL

Minutes of the Meeting (18/03/09)

 * Craig, Matthew and Arun presented our project idea to the team and guest advisor Nigel Robinson
 * Nigel Robinson posted some questions
 * What metals are we interested in?
 * Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic >> Red List metals
 * Will be difficult to import the red list metals, normally imports Mg, Zn, etc instead and not the red list metals >> Switch the exporter switch for Cd efflux
 * E.Coli has a mercury importer on ...
 * Silver will go in through copper??
 * Importer for Zn in Bacillus, express a protein ...
 * Put Gsh A, Gsh B into ... (from E.Coli)
 * Knock out Cad A, then find the maximum Cad A that survived.

Action Points of the Meeting (16/03/09)

 * List all the BioBricks needed
 * Develop software systems which stimulates the system
 * X-Mind (?)