Meetings May

1st may 2009

Recruiting more group leaders and post docs as instructors. we made a list of people we are gonna talk to. please feel free to suggest any names you can think of.

Arranging funds.. companies we can talk to.. sponsorship details etc..

also made a list of people from MPI that we must speak to.

Getting lab space.. and some consumables to start the work.

Getting our own home page.

Also we decided to have a iGEM meeting every week.. and an unanimous desicion was made to have it on tuesday at 17:15 every week. everyone related to iGEM is expected to attend. And we will circulate a mail regarding what will be discussed in the meeting a few days/1 day in advance.

12th may

so today tomek, priyanka and i, we met up with Michael Alvers from Transinsight. he might make a small contribution of which he will inform us on friday... also he offered to be a business advisor.he will advice us on approaching companies, which is what we need at the moment.

also he offered to provide us with a new software they are marketing.. called kalaimo.. its like a improvised version of imaris.. so if v do any particle tracking.. it will be very useful.

also he said he will spread the word.. about our igem team.. n talk to people he knows or thinks might be interested.

19th may

Today we divided the team into 3 groups, and assigned jobs to each group. these are the things that need to be done.. apart from the labwork..

it was decided that parallel work will improve efficiency

Group 1: Reading Deepika, stanley, arnab

until next week this group will work on a presentation content which will be used for funding etc, and also improvise on the current presentation.

Group 2: wiki Priyanka, Anja

until next week this group will brain storm and come up with concepts and ideas for the wiki page, also look at previous years wiki entries.

Group 3: funding Tomek, Daniel, Divya.

until next week we intend to get appointments and speak to 5 companies at least, and also some people at the MPI.

experimental work: anja and deepika have already started their part. the biobricks kit has arrived. so v have to get the lab space to keep our stuff.

Also there is a new advisor v have.. ilaria (phd student from schwille lab)

26th may

The meeting on 26th did not take place. We went to the Leipzig symposium. Here we set up a table for the iGEM team Biotec for fund raising, and to inform people about iGEM and our team We were exhausted by the end of teh day but it was a lot of fun :) Tomek and Stanley also spoke to the saxon minister for Science and Development.