Team:UIUC-Illinois/Notebook/MeetingNotes
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+ | <textarea rows="30" wrap="hard">iGEM Weekly Meeting – Sunday, February 19, 2012 | ||
+ | Getting card access to IGB | ||
+ | - Take 3 safety quizzes online (Angela will send out the link) | ||
+ | - Take the certificate you get from this to the IGB gatehouse, first floor, and they | ||
+ | will give you another certificate | ||
+ | - Take this 2nd certificate to the iCard people and get your card access! | ||
+ | - Do this asap! | ||
+ | EOH | ||
+ | - Will be going into the lab on next Saturday to keep up with the wet lab side of | ||
+ | the e.chromi project (we are allowed to be in lab from Monday to Saturday) | ||
+ | - 2nd project: coliroid. A red light system would need to be built so that we can | ||
+ | illuminate the bacteria. (we already have the necessary e.coli strain). | ||
+ | - Potential projects: making e.coli smell like bananas or wintergreen! Also, | ||
+ | seeing strawberry/your own DNA. (these are all really good for kids) | ||
+ | - The budget is $50. Making a nice printed poster is $80 through the IGB, so | ||
+ | lets go simple (tri-fold, old posters, Adi’s computer presentation, hang up | ||
+ | Asha’s dry erase board) | ||
+ | Team Work Delegation | ||
+ | - There are no longer any set positions. We are going to self-delegate tasks, | ||
+ | but then we are also going to cross our own borders and help each other out. | ||
+ | - Big idea! Everyone needs to work together, collaborate, and do their part. | ||
+ | - We still do need a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer because we | ||
+ | are an RSO. | ||
+ | - The engineering council needs us to submit people for these positions. We’re | ||
+ | going to choose these people, but we’re all going to collaborate. Isiah will | ||
+ | send out the survey about this. | ||
+ | - There is still the possibility to change positions if as time goes on we see that | ||
+ | people have different strengths than originally thought. | ||
+ | - Read the Pubmed “Leading a Successful iGEM Team” by Wayne Materi | ||
+ | Presentations of Past Winning Teams | ||
+ | - Adi’s article has been posted to the facebook page | ||
+ | o E. coli were reengineered to be a chemical recording device. Once | ||
+ | they were exposed to a certain stimuli, they would lengthen as a | ||
+ | function of time. So the longer the e.coli were in length, the longer they | ||
+ | had been exposed to the chemical stimuli. | ||
+ | o Helpful in a biological context, also a nanorecorder for toxins or | ||
+ | pollutants. | ||
+ | o Possible project idea: rewire e.coli to detect any type of toxins for a | ||
+ | specific environment. | ||
+ | Another idea, not only does the e.coli change color when a toxin | ||
+ | is detected, but it starts to break the toxin down. Research if | ||
+ | past iGEM teams have done this. | ||
+ | - First place: University of Washington | ||
+ | o Used e.coli to produce alkanes, a major part of diesel fuel | ||
+ | o Used a protease that digested gluten and made it able to digest more | ||
+ | gluten (idea of taking pills with the protease in it so gluten intolerant | ||
+ | people can take the pill) | ||
+ | o Biobricks: magnetic e.coli, magnetism toolkit for future iGEM teams, | ||
+ | submitted 65 biobricks! | ||
+ | - Will talk about Imperial College London and JZU – China next week | ||
+ | Project Ideas! | ||
+ | - The above e.coli that detects and cleans up toxins | ||
+ | - A harmless e.coli that goes in your body and detects trace amount of | ||
+ | carcinogens or other toxins | ||
+ | - Bioskins: gloves with e.coli on them that would change color letting you know | ||
+ | what different types of chemicals are on your gloves or that there is too much | ||
+ | dangerous chemical on your hands | ||
+ | - Getting rid of carbon monoxide. Either in your home through a bacterial | ||
+ | system, or putting it in factories to purify the exhaust air before it is released | ||
+ | - Bacteria that make biofuels. Lets repurpose these to make them even more | ||
+ | useful. Can we harness photosynthesis or put them in the smokestacks to | ||
+ | purify the air? | ||
+ | - Create a bacteria to keep invasive populations in check. (light sensitive so | ||
+ | they undergo apoptosis during the day) | ||
+ | - BUT – we need to research these ideas to make sure that we can actually | ||
+ | execute these. | ||
+ | - The iGEM categories: Best food or energy project, best environment | ||
+ | project, best health or medicine project, best manufacturing project, best | ||
+ | new application area, best foundational advance, best software tool, best | ||
+ | information processing project, best human practices advance, best | ||
+ | poster, best entrepreneurship | ||
+ | - We REALLY want to register for both iGEM and the new entrepreneurial | ||
+ | competition. | ||
+ | Lab Assignments | ||
+ | - Jin: Uros, Adi, Bob | ||
+ | - Bhalerao: Isiah, Anthony | ||
+ | - Brad: Cara | ||
+ | - Rao: Divya, Asha | ||
+ | </textarea> | ||
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