IGEM:The Citadel/Notebook/15 April 2010
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The Meeting on April 15th, 2010
Homework For the Meeting
- Continue looking at iGEM projects
- Look at the Oil Sands Initiative page on the iGEM website
- Come up with brilliant and interesting iGEM projects
On the Agenda
- Get John and Edelson registered on OWW -- FAIL (Must be done on April 20th)
- Teach wiki operation to everyone -- DONE (partially)
- Start mindmapping -- DONE
- Decide on favorite iGEM research fields -- DONE (but really delayed until April 20th)
- Break into research field groups for the weekend -- DONE
- Talk about recruitment. Do we want any more? Less? -- FAIL (but John mentioned a new iGEMer)
- Goal: 10 undergrad, 2 grad; talk to CofC, MUSC, Trident, highs (Porter Gaud, Bishop England, Academic Magnate, Wando, St. Joe's), Chem. and EE Depts.
- Explain team commitments and expectations to everyone
Meeting Notes
Check out these two sites for a list of interesting ideas.
Most-wanted Parts in Synthetic Biology
iGEM Idea Exchange (Has links for the engineerable P. patens moss)
Things to Do
- Arrange meeting with Dr. Rosenblum and Dean Groetsch to go talk with Foundation -- DONE (partially - I'm still waiting for the details)
- Talk to Dr. Zanin about the hurdles of kids in labs -- DONE
- Look for sponsorship
- Jonh's Biotech in FL
- Connections to Fischer Scientific (Dr. R mentioned this)
- The Provost talked about an alum in Seattle who had set up an bioinformatics startup.
- Oil Sands Initiative
- Local biotech (e.g. Genphar)