Team:Newcastle/Meetings/3 June 2010

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

1. 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