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