Team:Newcastle/Meetings/10 September 2009
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03 September 2009 - iGEM Meeting
- Chair: Mat
- Students: Mat, Jess Goksel, James, Hanny, Arun
- Minutes: James (in Jane's absence)
- Instructors: Neil, Jen
- Advisors: Morgan
Agenda
- Review last week's action points
- Lab summary
- Questions
- Next week's lab plan
Action Points during last meeting
- Need some sequencing primers for each BioBrick
- Tidy up some of the cloning strategies
- Either put the virtual constructs on the hard drive of the computer in Phil's office OR place them onto a shared network
- Need to review timeline
- Each team needs to come up with a five minute summary of their sub-project
- Ask Nigel Robinson's advice on how to help Cornell
- E-mail UQ University and enquire about helping them with modelling
- Negotiate swap with Cornell and enquire about modelling
- Follow up Groningen's e-mail
- T-shirts designs
- Integration Vector?
- Promoter library?
Minutes
Reviewing last meeting's Action Points
- Need some sequencing primers for each BioBrick
- Tidy up some of the cloning strategies
- Put current versions on the wiki, even if they are not finished; just to have them in one place.
- Either put the virtual constructs on the hard drive of the computer in Phil's office OR place them onto a shared network
- use Dropbox (getdropbox.com)
- Need to review timeline
- Students to ammend timeline.
- Team members
- Hanny has returned, after handing in her work.
- Jane has left for a period of one month.
- Jen has returned.
- Each team came up with a five minute summary of their sub-project, James, Mat and Jess
- 5 Minute kit has arrived.
- Some of the PCRs are not working.
- Use a different Taq.
- Redesign primers, maybe bigger and without cut sites (2 days).
- Use less genomic DNA.
- More ethanol is needed (Chris is to be reminded next wednesday).
- Only small gloves are currently available in the lab - we are to order some.
- Ask Nigel Robinson about working with Cadmium, and an electromicroscope.
- Ask Nigel Robinson's advice on how to help Cornell
- Mat emailing him; he has indirectly assisted Groningen.
- E-mail UQ University and enquire about helping them with modelling
- Mat to email.
- Modellers are to meet to discuss and work.
- Negotiate swap with Cornell and enquire about modelling
- Mat to email?
- Modellers are to meet to discuss and work.
- Follow up Groningen's e-mail
- Mat to email?
- T-shirts designs
- Numbers of shits - 11 are going to Jamboree, plus other members, backups, etc.
- Personalise some of the shirts - make name or initials look like plasmid ID.
- Purple is a possible colour.
- Design needed soon.
- Poster
- Can be no larger than A0 (1.2m2)
- Look at possible design layouts.
- Must be sent for printing 2 weeks before Jamboree.
- Presentation
- Mock presentations are to be given to:
- The Bioinformatics research group on a Friday morning in late October.
- Noel's student group in Sunderland.
- Prestenation should be around 20 mins; in a 30 min time slot.
- 10-20 slides.
- Come up with our content, before designing slides
- Use Camtasia to record models, etc.
- Some parts are to be simplified (eg. gene names), more tech parts to be kept (eg. equations).
- Try to focus on the Biology, not the 'experience'.
- Mock presentations are to be given to:
- Integration Vector?
- Promoter library?
- Mat is working under Neil and Jen's supervision on this in the lab; cloning into pgfp, etc.
- Sequence the AND gate?
- Needed for Tuesday.
- Boston
- Research ESTA for USA trip.
- Neil to send out full details of flights and hotels.
- Noel's microscope in Sunderland.
- Goksel to be trained.
- Lab rota
- New rota to be devised.
- Current 'free-for-all' cannot continue.
- Teams are to take time out of lab to work on t-shirts, posters, modelling, etc.
- Labwork
- Lab work is to continue at fast pace.
- Shared labbooks are to remain in the lab.
- Gel UV images are to be placed in Dropbox.
- Print out photos of gels, etc, and stick into lab books.
- Use the lab scanner for copying lab book content for wiki.
- Neil to send off Plasmids.
- Various PCR primers and enzymes have arrived.
News
Events
- 20 – 21 June 2009 - Europe workshop (London)
- 23 – 24 June 2009 - UK iGEM meetup (Edinburgh)
- 23 October Practice Presentation (Newcastle)
- 23 October T-shirts are ready
- 27 October Practice Presentation (Sunderland)
- 27 October Poster is ready
- 30 October – 2 November 2009 - Jamboree (Boston)
Social Net
- Newcastle iGEM Twitter
- [http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=131709337641 Newcastle on Facebook]
- [http://www.youtube.com/user/newcastle2009igem Newcastle Youtube Channel]