Team:UIUC-Illinois/Notebook/MeetingNotes

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iGEM meeting minutes from 2/26/12 - We watched the first 13:00 min of this video about Imperial College of London http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ushmgPM7HT8 o Please watch the rest of this video on your own- it’s very inspiring! o We are ahead of the schedule of ICL in their video; let’s not waste our time! - Angela suggests that we have two more meetings during the week in addition to Sunday for a total of 3 short meetings a week: o One to discuss team operation, one with advisers, one journal club meeting; each would be one hour in length o Multiple meetings would allow for more efficient use of team time and resources, we can solve problems from one meeting before the next meeting so we don’t have to wait a whole week to get answers - PLEASE FILL OUT THE “WHEN IS GOOD” SURVEY FROM UROS o this will select times for the two additional weekly meetings and give Courtney a time to come talk to us about safety - Safety Quizzes o Please complete your quizzes this week, we cannot work in the lab on EOH projects until everyone completes the quizzes o We are thinking of having a quiz party on Tuesday night this week to do all the online safety quizzes and have some food, check email/FB for a solid time o Please stop by the IGB Gatehouse 2nd floor Monday-Friday 8-5 (except the noon lunch hour) to get your IGB email address which is necessary for one of the safety quizzes - Journal Club o No article was discussed today o We are looking to get JC running during the week based on the results from the when is good survey- Anthony will lead first JC this week of 2/26 o Whoever will lead JC meeting of the week will create a small power point outlining the paper o Other iGemmers will read paper and come ready to listen and discuss - Adviser labs o Please email your adviser to introduce yourself so that we can get working in lab o Lab assignments: Dr. Jin Dr. Bhalerao Brad Dr. Rao Bob Isiah Cara Divya Uros Anthony Asha Adi - EOH o Equipment: projector, camera, computer  IGB gatehouse, second floor, Melissa McKillip to obtain EOH presentation equipment o Presentation committee- Cara has the practice poster for EOH, we should discuss what other presentation materials we want to have at EOH o Lab: glowing bacteria (bright yellow/blue) as backup in case we all cannot get safety certified in time for EOH - Social outing suggestion: visit another team such as Northwestern, U Michigan, Wash U, Purdue to network and have fun - Discussed timeline for Spring and Summer o This semester  learn lab techniques  Journal Club- once a week to familiarize ourselves with the Syn Bio field so that we can create a stellar, cutting edge project o Summer  1st week: identify the final project  2-4 week: design the gene circuit - http://www.tinkercell.com/ will help you practice  5-12 week: lab troubleshooting o Overall- no specific time  continue Journal Club  Human Practices  Wiki for the competition  Have some FUN! - Announcements: o Publicity Director:  open houses- once we do all of our work we would like to present it to as many ears as possible raise awareness of iGEM  create flyers and brochures  events that we need to prepare for: EOH, Undergrad Symposium, IGB fellow, Quad Day, Welcome events o Corporate Director:  Talk with Melissa McKillip about funding sources: UIUC and industry  If we get good funding, we can commercially synthesize some DNA sequences and save time! o Web Master:  learn how to code iGEM Wiki now · Wiki is for the iGEM judges  start Illinois iGEM website for meeting times, latest updates, and a place where the general public will come to look at our iGEM work- therefore it needs to be broad and understandable to the general public o Treasurer:  needs to take RSO treasurer quiz - Uros presented the Imperial College of London websitehttp:// 2011.igem.org/Team:Imperial_College_London o take away points:  liked the simplicity of their page  they readily showed the implications of their project  it was a global problem that had a wide area of impact  they defined terms/provided links for definitions  had lots of pictures and interactive features - Take a look at the Yale University project from 2011 that identified a very simple problem in a very simple way o this is an example of the beauty of simplicity o this Yale project was in the final for the regional jamboree and advanced to the international competition- don’t need to be intricate to win o we should take some hints from them!