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== 03 September 2009 - iGEM Meeting ==
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== 10 September 2009 - iGEM Meeting ==
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* Chair: Mat
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* Chair: James
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* Students: Mat, Jess Goksel, James, Hanny, Arun
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* Students: James, Goksel, Jess, Mat, Arun, Hanny
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* Minutes: James (in Jane's absence)
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* Minutes: Goksel
* Instructors: Neil, Jen
* Instructors: Neil, Jen
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* Advisors: Morgan
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* Advisors: Morgan, Matt
=== Agenda ===
=== Agenda ===
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* Review last week's action points
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* Next week's lab plan
* Lab summary
* Lab summary
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* Review last week's action points
* Questions
* Questions
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* Next week's lab plan
 
=== Action Points during last meeting ===
=== Action Points during last meeting ===
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* Need some sequencing primers for each BioBrick  
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* Need some sequencing primers for each BioBrick
* Tidy up some of the cloning strategies
* Tidy up some of the cloning strategies
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* Either put the virtual constructs on the hard drive of the computer in Phil's office OR place them onto a shared network
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* P place them onto a shared network
* Need to review timeline
* Need to review timeline
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* 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
* Ask Nigel Robinson's advice on how to help Cornell
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* E-mail UQ University and enquire about helping them with modelling
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* Send UQ University a model
* Negotiate swap with Cornell and enquire about modelling
* Negotiate swap with Cornell and enquire about modelling
* Follow up Groningen's e-mail
* Follow up Groningen's e-mail
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* T-shirts designs
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* T-shirts designs, get quotes
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** Numbers and Sizes!
* Integration Vector?
* Integration Vector?
* Promoter library?
* Promoter library?
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* Neil to send off Plasmids.
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* Use a different Taq.
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* Redesign primers, maybe bigger and without cut sites (2 days).
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* More ethanol is needed (Chris is to be reminded ON wednesday).
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* Only small gloves are currently available in the lab - we are to order some.
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* Ask Nigel Robinson about working with Cadmium, and an electromicroscope.
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* Research ESTA for USA trip.
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* Neil to send out full details of flights and hotels.
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* Noel's microscope in Sunderland - Goksel to be trained.
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* Create new lab rotas and schedule lab work, so that we finish on time
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* Septemer  18/ October
=== Minutes ===
=== Minutes ===
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====Reviewing last meeting's Action Points====
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*11 people will be going to MIT
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* '''Need some sequencing primers for each BioBrick'''
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*New TAQ worked
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* '''Tidy up some of the cloning strategies'''
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*New gloves, heating blocks and trays are ordered
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** Put current versions on the wiki, even if they are not finished; just to have them in one place.
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* '''Either put the virtual constructs on the hard drive of the computer in Phil's office OR place them onto a shared network'''
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=== New Action Points ===
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** use Dropbox (getdropbox.com)
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*Ask to Collin Hardwood's lab for pMutin4 primers
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* '''Need to review timeline'''
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*Design sequencing primers for gfp-rrnb
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** Students to ammend timeline.
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*Contact to Nigel Robinson to use his lab and the electromicroscope
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* '''Team members'''
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*Citate the papers in the wiki for metal sensing. Quote short sentences where necessary.
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** Hanny has returned, after handing in her work.
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*Write an email to Pete Lee at the end of our presentation
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** Jane has left for a period of one month.
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*Design the tshirts and send the designs to teh printing company. Do we personalize them?
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** Jen has returned.
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*Integration vector needs to be finished
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* '''Each team came up with a five minute summary of their sub-project, James, Mat and Jess'''
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*Register to ESTA
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** 5 Minute kit has arrived.
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*Send the flight information (Neil)
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** Some of the PCRs are not working.
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*Send an email to Noel to use microscope.
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*** Use a different Taq.
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*Make a request for variance for gfp-rrnb and Genarts' plasmid. Send their genbank files to iGEM and ask if we can use them. GenArt is already an iGEM sponsor and it should be reasonable to accept it. When asking about this permission make sure we say we have biobrick prefixes and suffixes anyway. Ask for the list of approved vectors.
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*** Redesign primers, maybe bigger and without cut sites (2 days).
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*Copy the genbank files of the plasmids to Dropbox
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** Use less genomic DNA.
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*Send an email for Track selection selecting three of them in order of preference. So the list will be Environment, Information Processing,... (It is due on 18th Sep) (What was the 3rd one? Is Information Processing second or third?)
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** More ethanol is needed (Chris is to be reminded next wednesday).
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*Write the abstract and send it to instructors before next Tuesday. Do not use more than what is asked(150 words?) State the problem we are tackling and our approach.
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** Only small gloves are currently available in the lab - we are to order some.
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*Team roster is due on 18th Sep
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** Ask Nigel Robinson about working with Cadmium, and an electromicroscope.
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*Remind to Neil and Jen to finalize the team rosters
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* '''Ask Nigel Robinson's advice on how to help Cornell'''
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*Finish everything until October 15th, send the biobricks, enter all the information
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** Mat emailing him; he has indirectly assisted Groningen.
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*Learn who can enter the parts on the registry. Does it have to be instructors? (Goksel)
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* '''E-mail UQ University and enquire about helping them with modelling'''
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** Mat to email.
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==Minutes==
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** Modellers are to meet to discuss and work.
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*11 people will be going to MIT
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* '''Negotiate swap with Cornell and enquire about modelling'''
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*New TAQ worked
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** Mat to email?
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*New gloves, heating blocks and trays are ordered
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** Modellers are to meet to discuss and work.
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* '''Follow up Groningen's e-mail'''
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** Mat to email?
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* '''T-shirts designs'''
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** Numbers of shits - 11 are going to Jamboree, plus other members, backups, etc.
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** Personalise some of the shirts - make name or initials look like plasmid ID.
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** Purple is a possible colour.
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** Design needed soon.
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* '''Poster'''
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** Can be no larger than A0 (1.2m<sup>2</sup>)
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** Look at possible design layouts.<!-- templates? -->
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** Must be sent for printing 2 weeks before Jamboree.
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* '''Presentation'''
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** Mock presentations are to be given to:
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*** The Bioinformatics research group on a Friday morning in late October.
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*** Noel's student group in Sunderland.
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** Prestenation should be around 20 mins; in a 30 min time slot.
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** 10-20 slides.
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** Come up with our content, before designing slides
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** Use Camtasia to record models, etc.
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** Some parts are to be simplified (eg. gene names), more tech parts to be kept (eg. equations).
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** Try to focus on the Biology, not the 'experience'.
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* '''Integration Vector?'''
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* '''Promoter library?'''
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** Mat is working under Neil and Jen's supervision on this in the lab; cloning into pgfp, etc.
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* '''Sequence the AND gate?'''
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** Needed for Tuesday.
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* '''Boston'''
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** Research ESTA for USA trip.
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** Neil to send out full details of flights and hotels.
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* '''Noel's microscope in Sunderland.'''
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** Goksel to be trained.
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* '''Lab rota'''
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** New rota to be devised.
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** Current 'free-for-all' cannot continue.
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** Teams are to take time out of lab to work on t-shirts, posters, modelling, etc.
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* '''Labwork'''
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** Lab work is to continue at fast pace.
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** Shared labbooks are to remain in the lab.
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** Gel UV images are to be placed in Dropbox.
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** Print out photos of gels, etc, and stick into lab books.
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** Use the lab scanner for copying lab book content for wiki.
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** Neil to send off Plasmids.
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** Various PCR primers and enzymes have arrived.
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Latest revision as of 16:15, 11 September 2009

Contents

10 September 2009 - iGEM Meeting

  • Chair: James
  • Students: James, Goksel, Jess, Mat, Arun, Hanny
  • Minutes: Goksel
  • Instructors: Neil, Jen
  • Advisors: Morgan, Matt

Agenda

  • Next week's lab plan
  • Lab summary
  • Review last week's action points
  • Questions

Action Points during last meeting

  • Need some sequencing primers for each BioBrick
  • Tidy up some of the cloning strategies
  • P place them onto a shared network
  • Need to review timeline
  • Ask Nigel Robinson's advice on how to help Cornell
  • Send UQ University a model
  • Negotiate swap with Cornell and enquire about modelling
  • Follow up Groningen's e-mail
  • T-shirts designs, get quotes
    • Numbers and Sizes!
  • Integration Vector?
  • Promoter library?
  • Neil to send off Plasmids.
  • Use a different Taq.
  • Redesign primers, maybe bigger and without cut sites (2 days).
  • More ethanol is needed (Chris is to be reminded ON 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.
  • Research ESTA for USA trip.
  • Neil to send out full details of flights and hotels.
  • Noel's microscope in Sunderland - Goksel to be trained.
  • Create new lab rotas and schedule lab work, so that we finish on time
  • Septemer 18/ October

Minutes

  • 11 people will be going to MIT
  • New TAQ worked
  • New gloves, heating blocks and trays are ordered

New Action Points

  • Ask to Collin Hardwood's lab for pMutin4 primers
  • Design sequencing primers for gfp-rrnb
  • Contact to Nigel Robinson to use his lab and the electromicroscope
  • Citate the papers in the wiki for metal sensing. Quote short sentences where necessary.
  • Write an email to Pete Lee at the end of our presentation
  • Design the tshirts and send the designs to teh printing company. Do we personalize them?
  • Integration vector needs to be finished
  • Register to ESTA
  • Send the flight information (Neil)
  • Send an email to Noel to use microscope.
  • Make a request for variance for gfp-rrnb and Genarts' plasmid. Send their genbank files to iGEM and ask if we can use them. GenArt is already an iGEM sponsor and it should be reasonable to accept it. When asking about this permission make sure we say we have biobrick prefixes and suffixes anyway. Ask for the list of approved vectors.
  • Copy the genbank files of the plasmids to Dropbox
  • Send an email for Track selection selecting three of them in order of preference. So the list will be Environment, Information Processing,... (It is due on 18th Sep) (What was the 3rd one? Is Information Processing second or third?)
  • Write the abstract and send it to instructors before next Tuesday. Do not use more than what is asked(150 words?) State the problem we are tackling and our approach.
  • Team roster is due on 18th Sep
  • Remind to Neil and Jen to finalize the team rosters
  • Finish everything until October 15th, send the biobricks, enter all the information
  • Learn who can enter the parts on the registry. Does it have to be instructors? (Goksel)

Minutes

  • 11 people will be going to MIT
  • New TAQ worked
  • New gloves, heating blocks and trays are ordered




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