Team:Newcastle/Meetings/27 August 2009
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27 August 2009 - iGEM Meeting
- Chair: Arun
- Students: Goksel, Jess, Jane, James
- Minutes: Mat
- Instructors: Neil
- Advisors: Dan, Morgan, Matthew P
Agenda
- Review last week's action points
- Lab summary
- Modelling - Copasi
- Questions
- Next week's lab plan
Action Points during last meeting
- Design biobricks and primers in Sequencher
- Students to prepare primers and cloning strategy documents by tuesday
- Make virtual construct of our manually constructed BioBricks on Clone Manager
- Look at which enzymes we need in the lab and order them
- Review the timeline and change it according to cloning strategy
- Contact teams to help them (Groningen, Cornell, UQ)
- T-shirts design
- Make sure flights and hotels are ok for everyone
- Integration Vector?
- Promoter library?
Minutes
Reviewing last meeting's Action Points
- Design biobricks and primers in Sequencher
- Sequencha had been ordered and has arrived - BioBricks have been designed as have the primers needed to make them
- NEW ACTION POINT - Need some sequencing primers for each BioBrick (look at the backbone and insert primers outside of the gene sequence). See Chris French's Open WetWare page
- Students to prepare primers and cloning strategy documents by tuesday
- Done!
- NEW ACTION POINT - Tidy up some of the cloning strategies
- Make virtual construct of our manually constructed BioBricks on Clone Manager
- Done
- NEW ACTION POINT - Either put the constructs on the hard drive of the computer in Phil's office OR place them onto a shared network
- Look at which enzymes we need in the lab and order them
- Enzymes all ordered and present
- Review the timeline and change it according to cloning strategy
- Haven't done so yet
- NEW ACTION POINT - Need to review timetable
- NEW ACTION POINT - Each team needs to come up with a five minute summary of their sub-project
- Contact teams to help them (Groningen, Cornell, UQ)
- Contact has been initiated with Groningen and Cornell
- NEW ACTION POINT - Ask Nigel Robinson's advice on how to help Cornell
- NEW ACTION POINT - E-mail UQ University and enquire about helping them with modelling
- NEW ACTION POINT - Negotiate swap with Cornell and enquire about modelling
- NEW ACTION POINT - Follow up Groningen's e-mail
- T-shirts design
- Ongoing
- Make sure flights and hotels are ok for everyone
- Done!
- Integration Vector?
- Strategy done; process ongoing
- Promoter library?
- Ongoing
Modelling - Copasi
- Goksel has given tutorial on Copasi
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)
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