IGEM:Paris Bettencourt 2012/Meetings/22 May 2012

Summary

• From now on put all the notes on OpenWetWare
• Import iGEM e-mail to your main e-mail so you can easily be up-to-date with everything
• What do we have at the moment regarding our project:
  • Subject: help people to put synthetic organisms out of the lab
  • One idea of the design of our system - we need more! – think about it in the metro, on the street, under the shower, before sleep, in your dreams etc.
• Claire started looking at the iGEM projects which could be implemented in our system – everybody has to help her! (she sent e-mails about it)
• We want to have clear goals
• Requirements of our system:
  • Prevent horizontal gene transfer (HGT) both from our system and to our system
  • Prevent escape/growth of our bacteria in the environment
  • It should not be toxic
  • Zero cells/DNA/genes after X amount of time
  • Modularity (priority – a couple of iGEM projects)
  • Working for a X amount of time (timer)
  • Robustness to mutation, evolution
  • Robustness to variability of important molecules in bacteria
  • Robustness to temperature, chemicals etc.
• Question of modularity and compatibility:
  • Do we want it to be modular with everything or with smaller amount of projects because there is only a couple of promoters and other important genetic parts that all use which significantly lowers our possibilities to make it modular with many projects?
  • Maybe we can use riboswitches because they are more modular!
• Risk management – look up the e-mail Alex sent us.
• Define biosafety and what we want to do.
• Yifan created a Photo-Notebook folder in Dropbox where we can put the pictures (like whiteboard pictures) from our meetings and events
  • We should name our Dropbox files like this: Date, Event Name, Description
• Babak will give presentation next week about how to use OpenWetWare.
• Zoran will do a search of literature related to biosafety and delegate a paper or two to each team member with exact deadline for presenting the paper during team meeting!

Assignments

• Bibliography assignments: Zoran (literature) and Claire (iGEM projects)
• Basic sponsorship: Antoine, Ernest, Julianne
• Simple tasks for everyone: register to igem.org, OpenWetWare and Dropbox!
• Veolia has a sponsoring fund and application time window is from 01/06 to 30/06
• Oil Sands sponsorship http://2012.igem.org/Sponsors/Oil_Sands - Deadline in couple of days; Very urgent! – Dylan
• Make Google calendar so people can put when are they going to vacation: Aishah
• Lab inventory and protocols: Zoran, Dylan and Denis
• Try Gibson assembly: Antoine and Denis