Team:Newcastle/Meetings/16 July 2009

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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 - ongoing
  • 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)
  • Make appointment with Goksel to seek clarity on sinI, sinR model (James, Jane) - Pending
  • Make appointment with Morgan to seek clarity on population model (James, Jane) - Done
  • Ask Morgan for link to her modelling research
  • Model big picture model (James, Jane)
  • 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)
  • Remind Jen to e-mail scanned documents

Notes

  • The program "Sequentia" is actually spelt as "Sequencher"
  • Mathew will be assisting with the PL
  • No lab sessions on Mondays until further notice



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