Team:Newcastle/Meetings/26 July 2010
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Roll call
Everyone here except Colin Harwood, Colin Davie and Wendy Smith
Research feedback
- Levan glue - Levan requires sucrose to work
- Test how much sucrose is needed - Phil
- Kill switch - Use of mazE and mazF
- How much sucrose is needed for it to work?
- How fast does the bug use up all the sucrose?
- Stochastic switch - Use of hinC as the invertase
- Matt to work with Phil to work out the probability of the switching
- Have to work out what is wrong with the iGEM 2009 stochastic switch first
Lab feedback
Phil and Younus - LacI Transformation, MiniPrep and Restriction digests
- Transformants with LacI and RFP in it. Not sure how to test if LacI is in the plasmid
- Whether gel, transformation worked, Miniprep did not work, plasmid moving at the wrong band (too many bands)
Arrangement in lab - yneA (synthesizing), SR1 (Sending to synthesize), Swarming, Have Bacillus parts in one place (ask Wendy)
iGEM UK get together
- Starts at 12.30 on the 200710 and ends at 12.30 on 210710. Each team to give a 20 minutes talk, all teams from UK except Imperial are coming, 2 slides for each brick. Team building exercise. Dinner at La Tasca at Quayside. Next morning: talks. Matthew Robinson talk.
- Visitors staying in university halls
Logo and T-shirts
- Have all logos on t-shirt
- Bacilla filla words on top of logo
Visas
- Harsh to travel to London on 160710.
Travel plans
- Book flights from 041110 to the 081110
- Accommodation open for booking
Funding
- School of Biomedical Sciences
- Mr. Gene might be able to fund us because we display their logo on wiki
Other business
- If start later, email everyone first.
Action points
- Write thank you letter to David Parker
- CEG logo on website
- Talk to Lula about funding
- Get back to Centre of Life person
- Contact Megan Lazara for iGEM badges and stickers
- Phil to send an email to Jill Green about Get Together
- Legends on figures(table caption goes on top, picture captions bottom), write on, description
- Create a page for cloning strategy like last year's
- Twitter feed
- Jannetta to change the gliffs
- What to do with yneA when it comes back
- Plan every step before going into lab
- Fill in wiki everyday for lab work
- Put down where we get protocols from
- Have a protocol page and link all experiments to that page
- Put Jane Calvert on iGEM mailing list
- Put all school logos on website
- Fill immigration form about 2 weeks before jamboree
Next meeting
- Steven is chair, Deena is computer, Alan is minutes
- Friday afternoon, 4pm.