Team:Newcastle/Meetings/3 June 2010

Contents 1 Formal Meeting - 3rd June 2010 1.1 Roll call and apologies 1.2 Approval of minutes 1.3 Action points of last meeting 1.4 Tutorials 1.5 Research Feedback 1.6 Action points 1.7 Logo/ T-shirts 1.8 Visas 1.9 Travel plans 1.10 Funding 1.11 Modelling 1.12 Advisors 1.13 New students 1.14 Time line discussion 1.15 Other business 1.16 Items for next agenda 1.17 Next meeting

Formal Meeting - 3rd June 2010

• Start Time: 3 p.m.
• Agenda

Roll call and apologies

• Apologies Anil late, Phil late

Approval of minutes

• Approved

Action points of last meeting

• Approved

Tutorials

• Clone Manager Tutorial- postponed
• Previous Tutorials – In the Dropbox or on the wiki? Not there yet.

Research Feedback

• BioBrick 1 (CaCO3/Urease): All
• Paper from tutorial –not in drop box yet!
• Action point – people who were there to re-teach tutorial
• BioBrick 2 (End of crack & signalling system): D.Y.; P.H.; Y.E.; H.S.
• BioBrick 3 (Non-target-environment kill switch): S.W.; A.L.; R.B.; J.S.
• BioBrick 4 (Spider silk & filamentous cells): J.S.; R.B.; S.W.; Y.E.; Z.B.
• Important to know promoter binding, inhibitors, -10 and -35 regions affinity and RNApol
• BioBrick 5 (Glue & lysis): H.S.; A.L.; P.H.; D.Y.
• BioBrick 6 Sequential Programming (Richard)
• A few weeks

Action points

• Jen send link tutorial
• Wendy to mailing
• Colin to mailing list
• Janetta to check wiki
• Edit sponsors on wiki add welcome trust and industrial workware
• Flowcharts - No progress
• Emails to Colin Harwood and Christopher Voigt
• Colin emailed, Voigt not sending an email serious research instead.

Logo/ T-shirts

• green, end of June

Visas

• letter ready to sign - Harsh hassle Anil

Travel plans

• Early
• Flights
• Accommodation

Funding

• Jeff Errington no reply
• Edit funding letter / review
• Andrew Young - sage- letter!

Modelling

• Needs to be sorted- SBML? Cell ML and Java
• Richard – chief of modelling/ Each Team decide
• Software tool –Gibson, see email from Anil: Computational sub project, simple graphical interface.

Advisors

• Add Colin. Goksel and Wendy to wiki and mailing, Colin Davie

New students

• New civil. Eng no funding yet

Time line discussion

• Jannetta carry forward action point add timeline
• Phil Update timeline

Other business

• Gilbert and Sulivan – This Monday and Tuesday 7.30pm £4 student £5 Adult (Social)
• Jannetta’s project – work flows –e science, use web services: blast ncbi etc export (computer accesses instead of manual) from one to the other rather than copy pasting from many sites. Teverner. Work flow example will find restriction sites in a nucleotide sequence. Output where the restriction sites are. Cut site not always where the start of the sequence,0 is for the start of the recognition site .

Items for next agenda

Next meeting

• No formal next week
• Informal meeting: tomorrow 12 p.m. at Walton Library
• Chair: Phil, Minutes: Steven, Computer: Alan