9 December 2008 Lab Meeting Agenda
† Stephanie's research report today.
† Announcements
- Meeting on 12/16.
- No meeting on 12/23
- Meeting Time for Spring Semester (starting week of 1/16). Put your NOT OPEN times here.
† Flu R01
- First samples ?
- Plaque Assay - first samples today. Ref stock 2x10^4 pfu/ml
- Alex needs to be trained to make SU molds. Trained to make the monoliths.
- Hussam: Flu fixture done.
† SEPSIS Project - CIMIT Bird Flu
- Sonali working on first draft of new version paper.
†RNA project
- Jeff Braman will visit December 12th. 9:30am Visit to Cathie's lab and lab tour. Meetings starting at 10am in Fraunhofer. Sonali and Cathie to attend.
- Do cDNA prep. Spec, gels, send to Jeff B. Shipping?
† COBRA
- Mark- Control circuit - This will be done by January.
- Evap quantification experiments ongoing. (JD, JZ)
- Substrates (JZ)
† Valve Array/Valve building (FJ)
- Turn over platform to Teddy
† Fraunhofer: LOAC
† Biointerfaces group
- E. Coli experiments with fluorescence.
- Strobe experiments? Jason cannot do them, perhaps MK can.
† CIMIT- Colson Grant
- First pages of first IRB started last week. Target date 1/1/09
- STAR-CD Renewal - January ($2K)
† PCR
- Improve the gel concentration 1.2% agarose. See if you can separate out primer dimers. UPDATE?
- Look into Melting temp analysis on the 7300 - Done. what is contaminated?
- Only 1/5 chips are good at the hot embossing step. The vaccum chuck will be checked and o-rings changed - helped a bit.
* Fixuture for PCR chip. The heater and the thermocouples would be on the fixture.
- Design new lambda phage assay with longer product.
- What do we need to finish the paper?
† RCA
- Cathie submitted One pager Whitepaper. Waiting for response.
† Senior project
† F31: Cochlea
† Silica Optimization (Lambda):
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