Team:Newcastle/Meetings/1 July 2010

Roll call

Everyone here except Phil and Younas who are in the lab. Arrived 10mins later.

Action points from last week

• Wiki changes have been made.
• Letter to Andrew Young is not - someone needs to be in charge of this.
• Civil engineer funding is not done yet.
• Flights plan is to get there on Thursday about 4-5pm.

Research feedback - end of crack signalling, quorum sensing

Diagram on board. Oxygen limitation triggers subtilin production, ResD and E. Need subtilin immunity brick too spaIFEG. Subtilin receptor was done in 2008 by Newcastle spaRK. Want it to be triggered by both oxygen limitation and by subtilin. Oxygen to trigger the production at the end of the crack, subtilin to propagate the signal. Need to feedback subtilin to the production. Then it latches to production. Need to activate production in response to subtilin. Need the promotor at the end of the 2008 brick. Need a repressor to switch it off when oxygen is present. We need to get the strain with these genes. ATCC6633.

Lab feedback

Arginine and urease tests - Harsh and Alan. The experiment has been designed, waiting for the materials. In the lab at 4. Urea media, grown overnight, If the urea is used, there will be a colour change.

Arginine test. Bug in LB, supplement with arginine. If arginine is used, pH increase.

Phil and Y, transforming E. coli dh5alpha with the vector that we will be using for lacI. Plasmid extraction tomorrow.

Logo and T-shirts

• Finalised.
• University logo must be correct - take it from the University website, not from anywhere else. Fill in the form to get the high resolution image.
• CBCB logo needs to be added. Ask Jeff or Joanna.

Visas

• Younas still hasn't filled in the visa-waiver form.

Funding

• Andrew Young letter needs to be finished and checked tomorrow.

Timeline

• Could be made more detailed now.
• Might need another brick, for motility or swarming. Definitely do not want biofilm formation.
• Spider silk next? It's on our logo so we should do it..

Action points

• Phil: talk to Dr. Aldridge about glue. How easy would a glue brick be?

Next meeting

Harsh is chair, Phil is computer, Alan in minutes. Meeting is 3pm Wednesday.