Team:Newcastle/Meetings/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 hwk. 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

Timeline

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).

6 Criteria:

• 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 early on Wed 17th at 3.00

• Younnis: scribe
• Jannetta: Chair
• Da: computer