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Team:Lethbridge/Team Meetings
From 2009.igem.org
We meet once a week to discuss planning and progress. This page includes brief summaries of what goes on behind closed doors.
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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.
