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 pm at 9.22.
- Joined by JH & AW at 4 pm.
- Apologies in advance from Phil – will only be able to attend up to 3.30pm