Team:Newcastle/Meetings/16 July 2009

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Contents 1 16 July 2009 - Internal iGEM Student Meeting 1.1 Agenda 1.2 Action Points during 09 July 09 Meeting 1.3 New Action Points from Last Meeting (09 July 09) and Student Meeting (13 July 09) 1.3.1 Modelling 1.3.2 Wiki 1.3.3 Misc. 1.3.4 Notes

16 July 2009 - Internal iGEM Student Meeting

• Chair: Jane
• Students: Mathew, Goksel, Hanny, Arun, Jess, James
• Minutes: Jess

Agenda

• Review previous meeting action points
• Review new action points
• Discuss lab schedule

Action Points during 09 July 09 Meeting

• Heavy Metal Network model - ongoing (Goksel, Jess)
• Stochastic Inverter model - ongoing (Arun, Mathew, Hanny)
• Sporulation Tuning & Population model - ongoing (James, Jane)
• Prioritise BioBricks - ongong
• PL - ongoing
• Write up about Cadmium and the environment - ongoing (Jess, Mathew)
• Lab space - ongoing (Jane)
• Week break before the start of new school term - ongoing
• Thoughts and ideas from iGem UK get-together
  • Write-up about social and ethics implications arised from synthetic biology and the project - Awaiting e-mail from Edinburgh university regarding thoughts and ideas generated during the activity
• Side bar/hyper links on biological terms used in the project - ongoing
• Jen to get syn biology toolbox
• Jen or Neil to e-mail Megan regarding clarity on the requirement/rule no. 1 to achieve the Gold medal.
• Team to help (ongoing)
• Write up on the use of Cadmium in the lab (ongoing)
• Summary of achievements on frontpage with links to evidence (ongoing)

New Action Points from Last Meeting (09 July 09) and Student Meeting (13 July 09)

Modelling

• Need another repressor to replace the promoter for the Cad A system (Mathew, Hanny, Arun)
• Decide on a set of environmental issues first (ongoing)
  • Device a method to differentiate Cd from the other metals
• Integrate the sin I operon into the big picture (James, Jame)
  • E-mail Jeff Erringon regarding sinI and sin R (Mathew sent e-mail on 13/07/09)
• Model big picture model (James, Jane) and model of the invertable segments to find X and Y (Jess, Goksel)
• Need Hin degradation (LVA) (Jess, Goksel)
• E-mail Colin Harwood regarding GerM (Mathew sent e-mail on 13/07/09)
• Change X & Y to X1, X2, and Y1, Y2 (Arun)

Wiki

• Review main wiki (ongoing)
• Upload diagram onto the main wiki (Arun)
• Update external wiki's intro (to be more scientific, might be due on 1st August) (Jess and team)
• Write up and justify a paragraphy as to why our project is concentrating on soil (Mathew and team)
• Remember to change B.subtilis to italic (ongoing)
• Upload internal wiki to external (ongoing)
• Update timetable (ongoing)
• Write up a small introduction about yourself on main wiki (ongoing)
• Upload Edinburgh get-together pictures (Jane)
• Idea - Greeting in different languages

Misc.

• Remind Jen and Neil to settle payment (get in touch with CSGPN) (Jane sent e-mail on 15/07/09)
• Remind Jen and Neil to settle flights and hotels (Jane sent e-mail on 15/07/09)
• Jane to e-mail Jen and Neil, to request for a guest student card (Jane sent e-mail on 15/07/09)

Notes

• The program "Sequentia" is actually spelt as "Sequencher"
• Mathew will be assisting with the PL