Team:Newcastle/Meetings/18 June 2009

IGEM Meeting 18 June 2009

 * Chair: James
 * Students present: James, Jane, Jess, Matt, Hanny
 * Instructors present:

Agenda

 * Review presentation for trip.
 * Team photos.
 * Sponsors.
 * Lab discussion.
 * Discuss Edinburgh trip, eg train times.
 * Review new timetable.
 * Run through action points.
 * Run through other teams wikis.

Action points from last meeting

 * Model of Metal Intake (Ongoing)
 * Model of sinI Operon (Ongoing, part complete)
 * Model of comK system -> someone to write a brief summary on the model(Hanny?) (Ongoing, part complete)
 * Promotor library -> Write a program (Java) (Ongoing, part complete)
 * Prioritise which bricks to synthesize, pull out individual bits (major, exciting parts that will earn medals) due to limited funds. Example: germination stochastic switch, metal sponge, etc.
 * Coding (JSim) (James) (Ongoing)
 * Write up on Cadmium and the environment (Ongoing, part complete)
 * Decide which awards to aim for, using Matlab would not get a prize, need to use/rewrite models.
 * Lab space -> Need to take turns, therefore need to come up with a proper schedule
 * External wiki photos are to be uploaded instead of placeholder images (James) - Done, but may improve.
 * Migrate pages to external wiki.
 * CCS template issues on Firefox/Safari/Some versions of IE, ect
 * Jen to email the team photos.
 * Do a new version of the timetable.
 * Plan for a week off before coming back for next teaching year (September-ish), to relax before even more work.
 * Edinburgh itinerary to be emailed to group (Jen).
 * Create an informal talk/presentation for the Edinburgh trip, we will run through this either on the Thursday meeting, or on an extra Friday meeting - this should contain some, but not too much technical detail, eg genes.
 * Phil to be added to the mailing list.