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===1. Summary of the last meeting ===
===1. Summary of the last meeting ===

Revision as of 09:49, 15 May 2010

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Contents

Formal meeting 27 January 2010

1. Summary of the last meeting

- We will need to look over B.subtilis and winners ...and the rest of the projects- need a novel twist

2. Summary of last informal meeting

- B.subtilis must be in italics!

3. Wiki update

- Login will be changed to password protected

4. Ideas Brainstorm

Phil

- Arsenic sequestering or heavy metal - Detect using fluorescence - Last year did it/ Cambridge - Pigments... can we improve?

Zoltan

- Degrading hydrocarbons - B.subtillis can do this already can we improve it - Problem biofilms, we must stop the bacteria forming a biofilm - Oil slicks - Bacteria already do it, not as fit. - Ethics - Environment not contained - Damaging to wild life, counterproductive to cleaning up the oil slick

Steven

- Removal of CO2 - Making biotechnology safer - Kill switches - Reducing rates of mutation

Harsh

- CO2 to isobutynol - Cut cyclic chain , fuel instead of fat - Spores not germinate - Weaponised hydrocarbon spores - Need clean burn

Alan

- Nitrogen fixation in soil - Enhance - Better promoter - Nitrogenase genes - Anaerobic - 2009 heavy metal sequestering plus fertiliser - Plant root , protect(fungicide), fertilise


5. Timeline

– ABSOLUTE PRIORITY-KEY POINT ON MONDAY - Work backward from November - Igem deadlines ... last years - Personal constraints ... exam periods - Booking flights etc - On agenda again next week - Project decision

6. Action points

7. Any other business

- May need to change 5pm meeting time - More ideas all our ideas are environmental - How many areas?- Best food/energy, Best environment, Best Health and medicine, Best manufacturing, Best new app, Best information processing, Best software tool - We should have a standing agenda - We need to start characterising early on

Start time: 4pm
Attendance: Philip Hall, Rachel Boyd, Zoltan Balogh, Harsh Sheth, Younus Essa, Alan Koh, Steven Woodhouse, Da Ye, Jannetta, Richard, Matt, Jen and Anil
Security –Zoltan /Anil talk to Dan
Start learning code- Everyone (who hasn’t already)
Add new members to mailing list-Jen
Send then the link to the wiki- Zoltan
Extend Monday meeting time-Zoltan
Project management software-Jennetta
Aim~ 5 projects in each area
Tutorials -clone manager and sequential, what is a biobrick tutorial, modelling tutorial –Anil and Jen/ We need to ask for them in advance
Register!- Anil and Jen
Add our own personal deadlines to the wiki- everyone
Program to sort out who's going to go through each of the past Igem projects –Zoltan
Breaking up past igems, review 30 each, linking up on wiki- all
What is a bio brick?

- Chunk of DNA - Defined start / end - Easily connected - No scars - Same restriction sites - Cut ends not middle - Like Lego bricks

Terminology not sorted out yet!
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