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Team:Lethbridge/Team Meetings
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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.
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 "
July 15th
July 22nd
July 29th
August
August 5th
August 12th
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
August 26th
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
September 16th
September 23rd
September 30th
