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Latest revision as of 12:40, 16 June 2009
Contents |
IGEM Meeting 11 June 2009
Agenda
- Action points from previous meetings
- Synthesising the DNA
- Start of lab work
- Matlab download
- Edinburgh trip
- Geneart is now offically an IGEM sponsor
- June 20/21 is for IGEM workshop at London
- Review of timetable
- Other teams
Action Points
- 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.
- 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.
Mintes of the meeting
- Students present: Goksel, James, Jane, Jess, Matt
- Students absent: Hanny, Arun, Craig
- Instructors present: Jen, Phil Aldridge, Dan
- Chair: Goksel
- Minute taker: James
- The group introduced themselves to Phil Aldridge, whose lab we will be working in.
- The group gave a brief overview of the project, up to the exam period, ran through action points.
- Promoter library - Hanny in Matlab - prices and problems.
- Sigma (70) - Phil asked what we were looking for a change of response to, but we clarified that it was the 'strength' of the promoters.
- Clarified the use of JSim, as a tool for running CellML models, then parsing the output data.
- Why do we want to clean up Cadmium from the environment? Showed the prepared draft document - "All" wording to be changed to "many" - airborne distribution - batteries in rubbish dumps - what industries use Cd - how big of a problem is it? - university staff located in the Devonshire building may be able to help.
- Need DNA design before Neil gets back.
- Push back lab work, due to trip, holidays and exams.
- Edinburgh - tickets are booked for those who have confirmed that they are going - staying in student accommodation.
- Lab introduction/tutorial set for Wednesday 17 June 2pm in the Leech building - Students are to meet outside of Medical Building at 1:45pm - L2.4, Offices - Dan M2046, Phil M2107.
- Ran though what some of the other teams were doing, and had a small discussion about some of them.
- Lab work to start on Monday 29 June, as there will be free space, as 2 people who normally work there are off. During the 1st week we should not expect to get much work done, as we will be learning - there will be plenty of help if needed, eg 2 PHD students are available until the end of July.
- Lab refresher (Neil?) - Making media, plasmids, streak strains, ect.
- We may get together with other teams later on and work with them.
- Hanny, Goksel and Jen are to work on the promoter library, rest are to work on BioBricks, could use Sequentia.
- Next meetings:
- Tuesday 12pm
- Wednesday 1:45pm
- Thursday 16:00
- Friday TBC
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]