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* Get everyone signed up on OWW. -- DONE (except John and Cy) | * Get everyone signed up on OWW. -- DONE (except John and Cy) | ||
* Teach everyone how to operate a wiki. -- FAIL (until everyone has an account, no point) | * Teach everyone how to operate a wiki. -- FAIL (until everyone has an account, no point) | ||
* Make plans for April Training. -- DONE (see below) | * Make plans for April Training. -- DONE (see below) | ||
* Arrange for future meeting times | * Arrange for future meeting times -- DONE | ||
==Meeting Notes== | ==Meeting Notes== |
Revision as of 18:34, 16 April 2010
From the Meeting on April 13th, 2010
Homework to Do For the Meeting
- Be thinking about project ideas.
- Review all project information for the following teams:
- Berkeley 2007
- Cambridge 2009
- MIT 2006
- Groningen 2009
Question to ask ourselves: How can we drive these forward?
On the Agenda
- Brainstorm project ideas -- DONE
- Divide into iGEM research category groups -- FAIL
- Get everyone signed up on OWW. -- DONE (except John and Cy)
- Teach everyone how to operate a wiki. -- FAIL (until everyone has an account, no point)
- Make plans for April Training. -- DONE (see below)
- Arrange for future meeting times -- DONE
Meeting Notes
Timeline
- Narrow project ideas down to three or four goodies (April 19-23)
- Select project deadline (April 27)
- Project planning and research (April 27-mid May)
- Begin project (early May)
Project Ideas
- UV detection and reporting (applications for sunscreen and tanning oil)
- Color output? Intensity dependent on UV levels?
- How does this drive the field forward? What elements of the project would be new and interesting?
- Trailing pond remediation.
- A "complete package" bacteria.
- Timekeeping mechanism, probably via Hasty et. al's quorum sensing
- Event log
- Multiple biosensing targets (we can go with elements already done with iGEM and look to some new ones). Plug-and-play variability.
- Quantitative reporting that is easily obtained (no special equipment) by the researcher (think Cambridge 2009)
- Synchronized data reporting across the colony
- Minuscule input produces amplified, whole colony, response. (must be unique and rare!)
- Sequestering or other remediation measure.
- Continued reporting.
- A "complete package" bacteria.
- Bacterial timekeeper. Hours and Date.
- Hasty et al. as a starting point.
- Display capacity? (light, pigement)
- Bacterial location awareness within the colony
- Shifts to reflect passage of time (light from Hasty appears to be 5 cycles every 8-9 hours)
April Training Session
- I will be drafting an outline of the training to be done. Brian D. Burnley 03:38, 15 April 2010 (EDT)
- Training will cover
- Biobrick Assembly
- PCR
- Transformation (chemical competency)
- GFP Measurement (maybe)
- Cell Culturing and Plating
- People will be able to comment on the outline by early next week (April 19 or 20). Requesting any and all comments from professors and students.
- End of April in the target for conducting the training session(s).