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Team Meetings
We meet once a week to discuss planning and progress.
This page includes brief summaries of what goes on behind closed doors.
April
April 22 Broke off into different planning groups.
We split into three groups in order to focus and organize our planning stages. The groups are:
Fundraising Alix Blackshaw, Megan Torry
Business Planning Jeffrey Fischer, Roxanne Shank, Ashley Duncan, HJ Wieden
Research and Development Jeffrey Fischer, Lisza Bruder, Nathan Puhl, Fan Mo, Kirsten Rosler, Mackenzie Coatham, HJ Wieden
April 29
Starting to solidify our goals.
Fundraising group has come up with 4 levels of donations.
Research and Development have possibly found our model organism.
May 4th is our kickoff event with AIF.
We discussed setting up lab tutorials for those of us that are new team members, the dates and times TBD.
May
May 6 Finalizing our separate sub teams
The business plans are almost finalized; comments from everyone are due on Monday at class.
Lab tutorials: Everyone will be responsible for their own genes in order to finish off last years project and to learn molecular techniques.
Our Ethics leader: Alix Blackshaw
The presentation team: Lisza Bruder, Mackenzie Coatham, Ashley Duncan, Megan Torry
May 13
Lecture topic: What is synthetic biology?
Business Plan Editing
- more clarity needed for potential applications
- pipeline: 2 foundational advances, 1 product
- no time line, no relevance
May 20
Lecture topic: molecular cloning and related technologies
More business plan editing, Dragon's Den (hosted by Alberta ingenuity fund) in 5 days!
May 27
Lecture topic: Open Wet Ware and Biobricks
Dragon's Den debriefing
Ethics evaluation for workshop on the 29th in Calgary
June
June 3
iGEM and BrioBricks "midterm"
Ethics debriefing.
Student presentations start next week!
June 10
Student Presentation: Megan Torry on "Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium Genome" Gibson et al. Science 2008
June 17
Student Presentation: Lisza Bruder
June 24
Student Presentation: Ashley Duncan on "A Synthetic Oscillatory Network of Transcriptional Regulators" Michael B. Elowitz and Stanislas Leibler
Signing up for workshops for the wiki/fundraising/presentation weekend.
July
July 1st
Happy Canada Day! No meeting
July 8th
Student presentation: Mackenzie Coatham on "The construction of a genetic toggle switch in E. coli "
August
August 5th
Student Presentation: Kirsten Rosler on "A Synthetic Genetic Edge Detection Program" by Jeffrey J. Tabor, Howard M. Salis, Zachary Booth Simpson, Aaron A. Chevalier, Anselm Levskaya, Edward M. Marcotte, Christopher A. Voigt and Andrew D. Ellington
Divided team wikis up to study an report back on.
August 19th
We have grant money! Project tracks (1) Foundational Advances (2) Environmental
Project Proposal defenses:
- Ashley: battling wheat leaf rust with E. coli
- Kirsten: converting toxic sludge created by paper mills into chemcials not harmful to the environment
- Lisza: high pressure, high temperature organisms for a new chassis (helpful to break down oil sands)
- Mackenzie: Biordorant
- Alix: breaking down sewage to use as compost in developing countries
- Megan: Algae's gift to neuroscience, channel rhodopsin
September
September 2nd
aGEM
- judging criteria: wiki, poster and presentation
- figures: gel showing over expression of proteins, one of the fluorescent proteins into a compartment, nanoparticle
- VIPs: Tony Russel, Daniel Weeks
Parts registry page: keep the s codes separate, need code & info(detailed info to be added later), sequences?
Make a "Criteria met for judging page"
We need some canvassing done for fund raising
Synsystems as a business? Roxanne is looking into this
Modeling: everything is ready to go, making the U of A teams stuff priority
nanoparticle by end of the week?!
September 9th
We have 8 people going to the jamboree. Need to book flights and hotel.
Plan to come in on the Friday and leave on the Monday, which will do the least damage to class, lab and work schedules.
Alix is looking into samples for T-shirts for the jamboree, this needs to be done soon!
Poster (and presentation) for aGEM:
- Figures: microcompartment with YFP and CFP inside, FRET diagram (Fan is doing both of these), nanoparticle diagram (Megan) and the biobattery (using Jeff's from the Dragon's Den, Ashley will send to Lisza)
September 16th
Lisza is getting knee surgery! Oh no!
So we need a different presenter for Saturday, Roxanne is picking it up as she is most familiar with inner workings of project.
Microcompartment update, interior of microcompartment is also negative.
Leaving for Banff, one car at 4:00 on Friday, one a little later. We need to know what HJ wants.
Shirts were ordered today, navy blue.
Flights: out of calgary at 7AM, get into Boston at 5/6. Changeover in Toronto. Flights back at 5:30 from Boston, and changeover in Montreal, arrive back in Calgary at 11.
Hotels?
Practice presentation: Mackenzie and Lisza
October
October 7
Chinook Symposium
Making responsibilities + deadlines documents to pass around to team in order to complete things on time
October 14
T-shirts:final voting
Plane tickets? Not yet (haha, are we getting a little to close for comfort yet?)
Modeling! Jeffy has a model of the lumazine microcomparment he is working on.
Imperial Oil grant for 2010?
October 21
Wiki Freeze is tonight
Events
AIF events
May 6 Kickofff event with Jen from AIF
May 25 Dragon's Den at AIF offices in Edmonton AB. Jeff, Ashley and Roxanne attended.
May 29 E3LS/Human Practices Workshop at the U of C.
July 11th and 12thWiki, presentation and fundraising workshops at the U of L campus. The U of L team took out the U of C and U of A to the Duke. No one took pictures. :(
September 18th to 20th aGEM Jamboree in Banff at the Banff Center.
Picking Local Potatoes
Picking potatoes was fun and a good workout.
This is the first step. The tractor digs up the potatoes
Many potatoes we found were shaped like hearts!
I was surprised they allowed me on the tractor!
Here is one of the many big piles!
Later we put piles in buckets to be weighed.
Some delicious greenhouse tomatoes
