Team:Newcastle/Meetings/17 February 2010

Formal meeting 17 February 2010

Start time 4.00 p.m.
Attendance: Philip, Rachel, Zoltan, Harsh, Younus, Alan, Steven, Da, Jannetta, Richard, Neil, Jen

Finished with new ideas
NW has contacted Lindsay Marshal about Fine Art Graphics person. Waiting to hear back. Also has been contact with Elaine Martin about other team member.

Took longer than expected but Jannetta has by now published the results.

DNA computing. Keywords: futuristic, threads, replicating bacteria, bacteria solving NP hard problems, e.g. Hamiltonian paths. Keep track of descendents: possibly using fillamentous bacteria.

Don't want to take major decisions about project ideas without supervisor present as guiders
Won't be creating DNA sequences by April
Don't talk over people in meetings
Day before meeting - circulate agenda, previous action points and minutes.
Start of meeting: revisit minutes - does anyone have any problems with previous minutes? People report on progress on action points.
Next meeting on Friday at 4.10 p.m.

NW and JH: register the team
NW and JG: look at funding (formally). Contact Pete Lee.
Jannetta: merge standing agenda into agenda. Format: Agenda section at top (funding, timeline, modelling, tutorials needed, advisors, travel plans, visas.
Jannetta: put brainstorm ideas onto a spreadsheet with tallied columns etc.
Phil: put specific dates on timeline. Add: get letter from university for visas
Jannetta and Phil: to create a summary of timeline as an Excel document in format similar to Ncl 2009 iGEM team website.
Jannetta and Phil: create an 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
Richard/Jannetta: Put put individual deadlines including when date to choose project by. Also need to arrange meeting between us, JH and AW.
Need to reschedule tutorials until after we have decided on our final project idea (priority)