Team:UIUC-Illinois/Notebook/MeetingNotes
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- | <textarea rows="30" wrap="soft">iGEM Weekly Meeting – Sunday, February 19, 2012 | + | <textarea rows="30" wrap="soft"> |
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+ | iGEM advisors meeting | ||
+ | Present: Cara, Adi, Uros, Bob, Asha, Amanda, Will, Isaiah, Angela | ||
+ | Advisors: Dr. Jim, Todd, Courtney Evans (Lab manager), Brad Evans (post-doc), Dr. | ||
+ | Bhalerao | ||
+ | Agenda: | ||
+ | - Team formed in 2007, first competition in 2008 (four competitions) | ||
+ | - Discussion: do we want to create a computational team? Involve open | ||
+ | recruitment or connections. One of the teams at the finals had a | ||
+ | computational team that created an evolutionary model of gene dynamics. | ||
+ | (Prof. Bhalerao involved heavily in the computational side) | ||
+ | o Bhalerao – it shouldn’t be done if it’s not 110% | ||
+ | - The pep talk: Don’t lose commitment, you are chosen to represent Illinois. | ||
+ | Don’t quit and do your job. | ||
+ | o Bring it on! | ||
+ | o Watch past presentations to realize the level of competition that we’re | ||
+ | facing. They’re mind blowing. | ||
+ | - 2 aspects to this experience: the synthetic biology (the idea, the research, the | ||
+ | quality of the physical project), marketing (broad vision, best presentation, a | ||
+ | sense of a dynamic vision is important, the judges like videos!) | ||
+ | - Understanding synthetic biology: this is the big idea, understand it before | ||
+ | anything else. Cut through the jargon. Take advantage of its flexibility. | ||
+ | o When presenting to the judges, need to let them know that we’re doing | ||
+ | synthetic biology, not nanobiology. | ||
+ | - Meet with the advisors regularly to keep on track. | ||
+ | Summary of Advisor’s labs: | ||
+ | - Dr. Jin: Doing yeast and e. coli metabolic engineering. Engineer a pathway to | ||
+ | create a phenotype of interest. All projects are about genetic manipulation | ||
+ | and perturbation (also some environmental perturbation) in order to produce a | ||
+ | phenotype faster, easier, cheaper. Will learn genetic manipulation, how to | ||
+ | culture the cell in large scale and small scale (fermentation/bioreactors), mass | ||
+ | spect to analyze the metabolic product. Also some computation in order to | ||
+ | analyze results (but not a good idea to focus on in this time frame of 2-3 | ||
+ | months). | ||
+ | - Dr. Bhalerao: Pathogenic research. What happens to the stress response of | ||
+ | the cell and the cell’s evolution in response to a metabolic engineering/gene | ||
+ | circuit that you have put in the cell? Well it’s hard, so you look at evolution on | ||
+ | the population scale. Can we control the evolution of the bug? If we so we | ||
+ | can build better vaccines or harness these bugs for more work. (Example: | ||
+ | can we control the evolution of pesticide resistant bugs?) Project: | ||
+ | bacteriophage system. How does system change under different stresses? | ||
+ | It’s complex to measure, so can we genetically modify these bacteria to | ||
+ | visually tell us things? Will learn genetic manipulation, mathematical | ||
+ | modeling, evolutionary genomics. | ||
+ | - MMG (Brad Evans, Todd, Courtney): help contruct a series of vectors that | ||
+ | will put tags onto the e.coli genome that will tease out their functions. How | ||
+ | can we figure out what this protein does and how it does it? VERY iGem | ||
+ | applicable. | ||
+ | - Dr. Rao: similar to Dr. Jin, chemotaxis, as well. | ||
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+ | iGEM Weekly Meeting – Sunday, February 19, 2012 | ||
Getting card access to IGB | Getting card access to IGB | ||
- Take 3 safety quizzes online (Angela will send out the link) | - Take 3 safety quizzes online (Angela will send out the link) | ||
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- Brad: Cara | - Brad: Cara | ||
- Rao: Divya, Asha | - Rao: Divya, Asha | ||
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- | <textarea rows="30" wrap="soft">iGEM meeting minutes from 2/26/12 | + | iGEM meeting minutes from 2/26/12 |
- We watched the first 13:00 min of this video about Imperial College of London | - We watched the first 13:00 min of this video about Imperial College of London | ||
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ushmgPM7HT8 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ushmgPM7HT8 | ||
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competition- don’t need to be intricate to win | competition- don’t need to be intricate to win | ||
o we should take some hints from them!</textarea> | o we should take some hints from them!</textarea> | ||
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+ | iGEM Meeting Minutes | ||
+ | 3/4/12 | ||
+ | Announcements: | ||
+ | Publicity - Divya | ||
+ | - Everyone needs to sign up for an EOH shift on the google doc. Melissa and | ||
+ | IGB have been contacted about equipment for a PowerPoint, posters, and 2 | ||
+ | computers. An iGEM flyer is being made for EOH. | ||
+ | - IGB fellows: a research symposium where 2 people will present a poster to | ||
+ | IGB scientists. We will need people to cover shifts throughout the day. This is | ||
+ | in a professional setting. Last year’s E. Chiver project will be presented. | ||
+ | Social Chair - Cara | ||
+ | - Everyone get excited for EOH! Social events will be planned after safety | ||
+ | certification and EOH is done. A good idea is to do something before spring | ||
+ | break. | ||
+ | Corporate – Adi | ||
+ | - Next week, a meeting with Courtney and Melissa will take place. Bob will | ||
+ | accompany Adi to discuss getting funding for the website. | ||
+ | Secretary - Asha | ||
+ | - EOH posters will be worked on after this general meeting. Cara and Asha will | ||
+ | be going to the first Engineering Council meeting this Wednesday evening. | ||
+ | Lab Manager - Isiah | ||
+ | - Lab work for EOH has been worked on by Angela. Last year’s project is still | ||
+ | under consideration as to whether or not it will be included for EOH. | ||
+ | - It is important for everyone to have access to IGB to come into the lab. | ||
+ | Web Master - Bob | ||
+ | - Bob has been looking at old wiki setups and has contacted David Chen from | ||
+ | last year to help with this. | ||
+ | - There will be the wiki page for project results and a different iGEM website for | ||
+ | publicity and information. The judges only see the wiki. Another option is for | ||
+ | the wiki to be hosted off of our own website. | ||
+ | - Learning python would help with Tinker Cell. When we decide what we want | ||
+ | to model, we can start looking at what we specifically need to learn of python. | ||
+ | Treasurer - Anthony | ||
+ | - Needs to receive the account number from the last year’s treasurer. | ||
+ | Vice President – Uros | ||
+ | - Everyone needs to complete the EOH training and print the safety inspection | ||
+ | sheet in order to be ready for the Friday morning safety check. | ||
+ | - Everyone also needs to meet with Courtney to complete the IGB safety | ||
+ | training. | ||
+ | President - Angela | ||
+ | - Next advisor’s meeting is Tuesday, March 6, 3-4 PM at IGB. We will be | ||
+ | discussing why last year’s team was not fully successful. | ||
+ | - Next Sunday, Angela will go over the E. Chiver project from last year. And | ||
+ | every Sunday someone will go over another project. | ||
+ | - Next week’s article: “A sensing array of radically coupled genetic ‘biopixels’.” | ||
+ | It will be presented by Uros. | ||
+ | Discussion: | ||
+ | 1) Safety quizzes and IGB keys | ||
+ | a. Keys are not working after hours or during the weekend. This problem has | ||
+ | been brought up to Courtney. | ||
+ | b. This Tuesday Adi, Bob, Anthony, and Asha will meet with Courtney to | ||
+ | complete their safety training. | ||
+ | c. So far only Cara, Uros, and Isiah have an IGB key. | ||
+ | d. Procedure: | ||
+ | d.i. Take all three safety quizzes | ||
+ | d.ii. Go to Courtney for 30min IGB specific safety presentation | ||
+ | d.iii. Get the access paper signed by Courtney (can ask her for a copy) | ||
+ | d.iv. Go to 1st floor of Gatehouse to the front desk, tell them you are | ||
+ | iGEM and need access | ||
+ | d.v. Pay the $8.50 and get a receipt | ||
+ | d.vi. Take your receipt to the Union Bookstore on Wright, go to id center | ||
+ | in back | ||
+ | d.vii. Tell them you need access to IGB and give them the receipt from | ||
+ | the Gatehouse (be prepared to take a new id picture!) | ||
+ | d.viii. Finally make sure you go to your residence hall front desk and get | ||
+ | your new icard re-activated | ||
+ | d.ix. Make sure your new icard will give you after-hours access, maybe | ||
+ | go to IGB front doors after 5pm and see if you can swipe into the | ||
+ | front doors | ||
+ | 2) New meeting Schedule | ||
+ | a. General meeting: We will still meet every Sunday from 3-5. For the rest of | ||
+ | the semester, the Chemistry Library will be our meeting place. | ||
+ | b. Journal club: The journal club will meet every week after the general | ||
+ | meeting. We have 5 papers that the advisors suggested we read. | ||
+ | c. Advisor’s meeting: First advisors meeting will be this Tuesday, March 6th | ||
+ | from 3-4 at the IGB. | ||
+ | 3) Has everyone contacted their lab advisor? | ||
+ | a. If not, do that asap! | ||
+ | 4) EOH progress | ||
+ | a. We will meet after this to familiarize ourselves with the presentation for | ||
+ | EOH. | ||
+ | b. Everyone needs to partner up with someone who knows the presentation, | ||
+ | that way at EOH we are prepared. | ||
+ | 5) Journal Club (Presented by Anthony) | ||
+ | a. “Synthetic biology: advancing biological frontiers by building biological | ||
+ | systems” | ||
+ | b. PowerPoint is attached to the email of these minutes. | ||
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+ | Agenda of Advisor Meeting | ||
+ | 3/6/2012 | ||
+ | Team Structure | ||
+ | - President – Angela Chen | ||
+ | - Vice President – Uros Kuzmanovic | ||
+ | - Secretary – Asha Kirchhoff | ||
+ | - Treasurer – Anthony Chau | ||
+ | - Corporate Director – Adi Malik | ||
+ | - Publicity Director – Divya Tankasala | ||
+ | - Social Chair – Cara Schornak | ||
+ | - Web master – Bob Chen | ||
+ | - Lab Manager – Isiah Ramos | ||
+ | - But it is everybody’s responsibility to contribute and direct themselves, as well | ||
+ | as collaborate with all the others to make the project a success | ||
+ | Team Operation | ||
+ | - Meetings | ||
+ | o Bi-weekly advisor’s meeting | ||
+ | Tuesday from 3-4 PM | ||
+ | o Weekly general meeting | ||
+ | Keeping track on team operations | ||
+ | Discussion on one past project | ||
+ | o Weekly Journal club | ||
+ | - Recent Activities | ||
+ | o Participated in E-week events | ||
+ | o Preparing for Engineering Open House | ||
+ | In order to use this in the human practices part of our project, | ||
+ | we will video tape people’s opinions on synthetic biology, video | ||
+ | tape the exhibit, and count the number of people we interacted | ||
+ | with | ||
+ | A short edited video can then be used for the human practices | ||
+ | part of our website | ||
+ | Overall, the responsibilities of human practices falls to Divya, | ||
+ | Cara, and Asha | ||
+ | o Completed safety quizzes | ||
+ | Make sure Courtney has a copy of your completed safety | ||
+ | quizzes! This is absolutely necessary to do before you get your | ||
+ | IGB card access. | ||
+ | o Started Journal club on March 4 | ||
+ | Important to critically examine the articles, not just read them. | ||
+ | We have to sharpen our critical thinking. We also should read | ||
+ | review articles for every paper. | ||
+ | o Started project discussion – 2011 U of Washington and Imperial | ||
+ | College London | ||
+ | o Started Bootcamp in each lab | ||
+ | Every week everyone should share what they are learning in | ||
+ | bootcamp. This will lead to brainstorming. | ||
+ | o Presented E. Chiver project in the 2012 Institute of Biological | ||
+ | Engineering on March 2 | ||
+ | Angela and Jaimie recreated the old presentation so that it was | ||
+ | more suitable to a symposium. The presentation was filmed, so | ||
+ | it will be sent to all of the advisors. | ||
+ | Discussion | ||
+ | - Bi-weekly meeting with advisors | ||
+ | o What do we discuss in this meeting? | ||
+ | Present our ideas for projects to the advisors so they can give | ||
+ | us an indication of how we are progressing and if our plans are | ||
+ | viable. | ||
+ | o Introduction to Prof. Liu of Bioengineering as one of our advisors. | ||
+ | - Team Operation | ||
+ | o Would identifying a topic in the first week of summer be too late? | ||
+ | o Brainstorming | ||
+ | Rules: | ||
+ | · No idea is bad. Especially for the first 2 weeks, there | ||
+ | should be no filter. Everyone should have the chance to | ||
+ | speak. | ||
+ | · After a few weeks start editing the ideas. Check | ||
+ | iGEM.org to make sure that no one has done our idea | ||
+ | before. This is also another good resource to check and | ||
+ | see what type of projects went well and why. | ||
+ | o Dr. Bhalerao advises to skip looking at the past projects of UIUC iGEM | ||
+ | or other iGEM teams. Courtney agrees that we will never be proficient | ||
+ | in synthetic biology, so it’s important to just come up with good ideas | ||
+ | (which is the hard part). Looking at past presentations and projects is | ||
+ | what we should all do individually, not at the meeting. | ||
+ | o Our project should be feasible, something we enjoy, and something | ||
+ | really cool. Our presentation should also be able to market and | ||
+ | capitalize our idea, as well as convince everyone that it is better and | ||
+ | more exciting than anything else. | ||
+ | o Look at our old past projects and see if we can finish any or do any | ||
+ | better. | ||
+ | - Team Collaboration | ||
+ | o Is collaborating with the University of Michigan team, or others, | ||
+ | feasible? | ||
+ | Try to build bridges with as many teams as possible. That way | ||
+ | we have as many options as possible. These contacts need to | ||
+ | be made soon. | ||
+ | Our collaboration can be pooling human practices, sharing data | ||
+ | or technology, or even sharing a project. It is possible to actually | ||
+ | collaborate on the same project, especially if one lab blind tests | ||
+ | the other’s idea, or one team plans and the other executes. | ||
+ | - iGEM registration | ||
+ | o Registration is now open. Do we have an iGEM account? | ||
+ | Yes. | ||
+ | o Can we join iGEM – Entrepreneurship? | ||
+ | A good idea, ultimately we do want our project to be applicable | ||
+ | in real life. | ||
+ | We need to acquire an additional advisor from the business | ||
+ | school. Try Kathy Baylis in Agriculture/Consumer economics. | ||
+ | She is a friend of Dr. Bhalerao’s and her husband is a professor | ||
+ | in the business school. | ||
+ | Dr. Bhalerao thinks we should pursue the economic models | ||
+ | track. | ||
+ | This has the same registration deadline as the normal iGEM | ||
+ | competition, which is March 31. | ||
+ | - Funding Sources | ||
+ | o Where do we find funding sources? | ||
+ | We start from scratch every year. The only one that is | ||
+ | guaranteed is IGB. We should start early. | ||
+ | Funding went well last year; we’re starting with $15,000. But we | ||
+ | should knock on all doors. | ||
+ | o Should the corporate director and president talk with the IGB director? | ||
+ | Yes, make a formal appointment and have an impressive | ||
+ | presentation. Dress down for it and make them give you money. | ||
+ | Also, make a brochure for iGEM 2012 and then go and talk to all | ||
+ | the heads of all the Colleges. We can print it on nice glossy | ||
+ | paper for free at IGB. Our brochure should contain as specific | ||
+ | as a project idea as possible. We want to let everyone know that | ||
+ | we plan to deliver. Also market that we want to join the | ||
+ | Entrepreneurship competition this year. | ||
+ | Also, contact Peter Fox. He owns the land that is Research | ||
+ | Park. Also contact Scott Pilkins, the director of Research Park. | ||
+ | Illinois Ventures in particular is one we should talk to. Steven | ||
+ | Slyger from Nanodisk at Research Park. | ||
+ | o In May, we will all need to fill out a form for travel reimbursements | ||
+ | ($700). | ||
+ | - Server | ||
+ | o Do we have a server for the iGEM website? | ||
+ | We do, Dr. Bhalerao has it in his office. | ||
+ | We would be able to secure $100 for a high quality website from | ||
+ | Adi’s Chicago web developer contact. But we should make sure | ||
+ | it has dynamic contact. It it’s just static, we shouldn’t spend the | ||
+ | money, and we should just use a template. | ||
+ | - 2011 iGEM project | ||
+ | o Why didn’t we advance to the international competition? | ||
+ | There was no data uploaded. It was a human error. A lot of | ||
+ | people liked the idea, but there wasn’t enough data and | ||
+ | characterization to show the judges. | ||
+ | The idea was too complex, the execution was poor. The project | ||
+ | never really came together, it had no final polish. | ||
+ | This year the goal is to ADVANCE. | ||
+ | o How should we manage time/human resources to complete a winning | ||
+ | project? | ||
+ | Towards the end of the project, everyone needs to continually | ||
+ | be checking and double checking that everything is correct and | ||
+ | has been submitted. | ||
+ | We really don’t want to let our wiki go until the last minute. | ||
+ | Ideally it should be created over a long amount of time. | ||
+ | We also really want to focus on our presentation. We should | ||
+ | memorize it, but then make it seem effortless. | ||
+ | Things that stand out: great idea, great execution, and obvious | ||
+ | team chemistry. | ||
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