IGEM:Melbourne/2008/SyntheticSociety/FirstMeetingAgenda

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First Meeting Agenda

Link to First Meeting Minutes

Meeting Location: Bio21 Level 1 Conference Room

Meeting Time: after the iGEM team meeting

Meeting Logistics: snacks and water

Current Meeting Length : ~2 hours

Present

Pre-meeting Tasks

• mail was sent out ... hopefully enough ppl will turn up
• organise projector - get this of Prof. Howlett berfore 5pm , need to put back into student area after use (get keys of Alisa)

Intro to Synthetic Society

• this is effectively what we make it ...
• (10min)why have a synthetic society???
• (5min)what should its purpose be ...
• (10min)possible futures - recruitment tool for iGEM team applicants
• (10min)how big should it get?
• (5min)have a stand at O-Week/ membership drive ...
• (5min)actual student society
• (0min)should we affilliate with other student societies
• OR just private discussion forum for people interested in synthetic biology
• (5min)weekly/monthly meetings ???

Brainstorming/Research

• (20 min)go through synthetic biology applications
• (30min) watch ljubljana presentation (http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Ljubljana) - (need link to video - ask louis???)
• go through ethz project
• go through heinemann paper - "Synthetic biology—putting engineering into biology"
• free discussion
  • ghost in the shell/matrix downloading
  • ethical implications of synbio?
  • opensource - how can we make money from synbio or should we?
  • crazy ideas - chair-organisms / brushoteethia coli etc

Next Meeting

• set agenda - what should we do in the mean time
• set next meeting time