Team:Newcastle/Meetings/19 February 2010
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Informal meeting - 19th February 2010
- Start time: 4.10 p.m.
- Attendance:
- Present: Alan, Da (Computer), Harsh, Jannetta (Chair), Philip, Rachel, Younus (Minutes), Zoltan (left early)
- Apologies: Steven
- Absent: Richard
Previous Meeting Summary
- Shortlisting - Scoring of all ideas out of 10 according to agreed criteria onto table
Shortlisting of ideas [22 to ...]
- Jannetta added up total scores for each idea of project;
- 22 ideas in total;
- sorted ideas based on scores with highest at top;
- decided together whether to keep or discard ideas;
- as Richard was not present, we did not discard any of his many ideas - will go through early on Wed
List of potential/possible ideas:
- Wound healing
- DNA computing
- Concrete
- Hydrocarbon degradation (needs further research)
- Coating BS spores
- BactoNatto- coating BS (spores?)
- Head lice
- Diabetes (problems: have to infect whole system with bacteria, hypoglycaemia, need to take many different measurement, protein kinase B may have effects on other systems)
- MazEF (sub-project)
Ideas to discard (reasons):
- Aquarium (done before in prev. projects + thermometers)
- Sequestering Arsenic (done before in prev. projects)
- Nitrogen
- Filtering body fluids
- French Flag
- Antibiotic resistance (resistance against anti-resistance; many ethical issues)
- CF (bacteria into lungs; how to protect B. subtilis itself against DNase enzymes it secretes? Possibly use pro-drugs or limit time to work with a kill switch)
Action Point
- JH & AW: Registration; Wellcome trust funding; additional team members (graphics designer, chemical engineer); advisors?
- Jannetta to e-mail reminder to JH & AW; Zoltan to set up script (every two days!)
- To complete uploading of data mining on to merged page on wiki (Phil, Richard, Steven?)
- Jannetta and Phil: Timeline summary for JH and AW - create Excel spreadsheet with dates showing the things we need to do to get Gold (start/finish dates, hard/soft deadlines, what needs to be done for Gold, for Silver, for Bronze)
- All: check whether you need visas + Check if passports are in date
- Harsh’s idea of cheaper and quicker flight to Boston option
- Modelling Tutorials - On hold - Need to reschedule tutorials until after we have decided on our final project idea
Next Three Meetings
- Chair, Minutes and computer for next three meetings:
- Meeting dates: Formal - Wed 24th Feb; Informal - Fri 26th Feb; Formal - Wed 3rd March
- Chair: Rachel, Younus, Younus
- Minutes: Younus, Zoltan, Zoltan
- Comp: Da, Phil, Phil
- Formal Meeting [24th Feb 2010]
- Early meeting from 3 p.m. at 9.22.
- Joined by JH & AW at 4 p.m.
- Apologies in advance from Phil – will only be able to attend up to 3.30 p.m.