IGEM:PennState/2007/News/MeetingNotes

Monday, May 21-Group Meeting in 244 Ag Engineering 3PM More information about the meetings below. If times do not work, please let me know and we can reschedule them to a better time. Also, if anyone has a copy of the Genetic Switch and would like to lend it out to one of our 3 new members please let me know, and I will get it to one of them as quickly as possible.

At the Student Meeting

Friday, May 18-Student Meeting at 408 Althouse 2PM

We went over:

• using the spectrophotometer
• locations of lab supplies
• general lab strategies
• planned brainstorming session

Monday, May 21-Group Meeting in 244 Ag Engineering 3PM

Summer Schedule

Monday, May 30-Group Meeting in 244 Ag Engineering 4PM

Todays Topic: Project Propoasals

• Friday is decision deadline

Suggestions: Focus on areas under advisors expertise, focus on iGEM objectives (Energy, Fuel) iGEM objectives for 2007

• Health and Medicine
• Energy and Environment
• Parts and Devices

Project Proposals

• Radiation Biosensor
• Heat Biosensor
  • Exothermic Enzymes
• Biofilms
  • Tom Richards: Applications to Synthetic Biology
• Renewable Energy Biomass:
  • Problem is Multiple Sugar Types
    • Diauxie
    • Remove Diauxie by modifying bacteria to remove both sugars at the same time.

Saturday, June 2-Undergraduate Online Meeting 4PM

• What is the composition of the biomass (sugars x%)?
• Is there a biomass standard
• How do we knock the xylose metabolism parts out of the chromosome
• Put xyl A, B, E under control of xylR
• Do we we want the xylose metabolism to be under tight repression?
• Should we be looking at multiple sugar metabolizing pathways?

Plan:

• Noah/Garrett-look up biomass papers come up with questions
• Luc-come up with weekly plan