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Informal Meeting 12 February 2010
- Start Time: 4.00 p.m.
- Attendance: Rachel (Chair), Richard (minutes), Zoltan (computer) Harsh, Younus, Da, Alan (late)
Summary of the last formal meeting
- Showed supervisors timeline
- Ideas:
- Da: diabetes
- Jannetta: optimal nitrogen fixation
- Steve: error detection
- Modelling tutorial and homework. Stephen has already put list of model entities on wiki
- All mobile numbers on Wiki apart from Richard (need new phone)
Ideas
- Zoltan: Using bacteria to draw (French) flags. Move towards signal: light, electricity. Produce fluorescent colours. Need to think about practical applications.
- Richard: Bacillus immune system. Largest problem is to overcome immune reaction
Linearisation of bacterial genome for kill-switch: need to re-engineer the replication mechanism
Shortlisting of Ideas
- Discussed about ranking system (1 worst: 10 best).
- Table. Shortlisting ~20 down to 5 on Wednesday. To 3 on Friday.
- Slide presentation for last 3 - divide team into groups of 3 (present as a group in front of AW and JH).
- wow factor (impress judges) - “out of blue”
- novelty (how new or fresh is idea)
- practicality in lab
- how much has already been done
- glass award potential
- application in society
- Somebody needs to draft table for scoring.
- Have send email to JH and NW asking them about the suitability of our 6 criteria.
- Each person only knows 27 of all previous projects. Need to create list and finalise criteria. To discuss with supervisors later.
Homework for modelling tutorial
- Took picture of modelling lac operon network.
Action points
- All: Put all ideas up on ideas page by next meeting. 14+ ideas so far
- Zoltan: Data mining results to copy and paste onto original page (Main page > previous projects > Zoltan)
- Zoltan: will put photo of homework model network on wiki.
- All: New ideas allowed before Wednesday. Bring list of own ideas from wiki for next meeting.
- Richard: add ideas to ideas page
- Remind NW and JH about selection of remaining two team members
- Next meeting Wed 17th at 3.00 p.m.
- Chair: Younus, Minutes: Jannetta, Da: computer
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