Team:UIUC-Illinois/Notebook/MeetingNotes
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- | + | 3/7/12 Engineering council | |
+ | Present: Asha, Cara | ||
+ | Officer announcements | ||
+ | - Engineering open house: | ||
+ | o Thursday night – you must attend check in at Kenney Gym starting at 6 | ||
+ | PM! T-shirt pickup, equipment, and signs will be given out at this | ||
+ | meeting. The final safety meeting is at 9PM after this. | ||
+ | o We need to volunteer 4 hours as a society, and register on the EOH | ||
+ | website (attractions tab, volunteer, google survey and doodle). | ||
+ | o Fun stuff: Tesla Coil Concert at 9 PM on Friday, Dorm room fire | ||
+ | simulation (11, 1, 3 PM on Friday only!), James bond exhibit. Friday | ||
+ | night speaker is Danny Forester (host of Build it Bigger on Discovery), | ||
+ | but this needs tickets which you get can on the hour every hour at | ||
+ | Grainger. Also, you can download the EOH app. | ||
+ | - EC executive board elections: society should decide on who to vote for once | ||
+ | the names and statements are sent out. | ||
+ | - EC/BC barcrawl (engineering and business council). Wed, March 14th at 9 | ||
+ | PM. Can sign up on facebook | ||
+ | - March madness bracket challenger: $5 per entry with money going to Habitat | ||
+ | for Humanity. | ||
+ | - Committed Student Award: We can nominate one student for significant | ||
+ | contributions to an EC society. Application available online. | ||
+ | - Town Hall meeting with Dean Tucker (dean of undergrad engineering) is | ||
+ | Monday Match 12th, 1320 DCL at 5 pm. Free food! | ||
+ | - Undergrad Research Workshop: March 13, 11-12 in 112 Engineering Hall. | ||
+ | - How to make your own nonprofit: March 14, 5:30-7 PM in 269 Everitt Hall. | ||
+ | - Rock your internship: March 27, and grad school workshop after the break | ||
+ | - Awards: | ||
+ | o Committee member of the month: Sid Sethupathi (Eweek mastermind | ||
+ | and a freshman) | ||
+ | o Society Member of the month: Joseph Shim of IEEE | ||
+ | o Society of the Month: AlChE (E week champs) | ||
+ | o Yearly Awards: Most improved society: IIE | ||
+ | o Yearly Awards: Outstanding Society: SWE | ||
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- | + | iGEM Meeting Minutes | |
+ | 3/11/12 | ||
+ | Announcements: | ||
+ | Publicity - Divya | ||
+ | - Film and pictures from EOH will be posted to the facebook page during spring | ||
+ | break. The brochure template will also be created over spring break. | ||
+ | - Melissa wants iGEM to contribute a little blurb to the online newsletters. Asha | ||
+ | will be writing that. | ||
+ | Social Chair - Cara | ||
+ | - Is planning a game night before spring break. Details will be posted on the | ||
+ | facebook page. | ||
+ | Corporate – Adi | ||
+ | - Not present, look for an announcement through a separate email. | ||
+ | Secretary - Asha | ||
+ | - Still need to send minutes for the ec. Meeting, and last advisor’s meeting. | ||
+ | Lab Manager - Isiah | ||
+ | - After spring break, will be in charge of cleaning the lab bench and desk. | ||
+ | However, everyone will help with both of those. | ||
+ | - Also after spring break, Isiah and Anthony will collaborate on ordering | ||
+ | supplies, and then it must be checked with Angela for approval before actually | ||
+ | ordering things. | ||
+ | Web Master - Bob | ||
+ | - Will be moving to Bhalerao’s lab. | ||
+ | Treasurer - Anthony | ||
+ | - Anthony and Isiah have started lab work with Bhalerao. | ||
+ | Vice President – Uros | ||
+ | - Is presenting the journal club today. | ||
+ | President - Angela | ||
+ | - Good job on EOH everyone! =) | ||
+ | Discussion: | ||
+ | 1) What did you learn in lab bootcamp this week? | ||
+ | a. Anthony and Isiah (Bhalerao): has a general overview of the lab with oral | ||
+ | instructions. Biohazards were discussed and a gel was created. Actual lab | ||
+ | work will start this week (at least twice a week). They will write a proposal | ||
+ | for a procedure on how to extract, characterize, and transform a specific | ||
+ | gene. Bob will also be switching into Bhalerao’s lab. | ||
+ | b. Asha and Divya (Rao): No contact yet, we will definitely try to meet this | ||
+ | week before spring break. | ||
+ | c. Cara (Brad): Lots of stuff! Working hard over the past few weeks, Cara | ||
+ | has been performing electrophoresis, ligation, and transformation. | ||
+ | 2) Meetings schedule | ||
+ | a. Over spring break, everyone should review past projects and come up | ||
+ | with their own proposal for a project. | ||
+ | a.i. Group 1: Angela, Asha, Bob, Isiah , Anthony | ||
+ | a.ii. Group 2: Divya, Uros, Cara, Adi | ||
+ | a.iii. There will be no discussion on the past projects, but it is important | ||
+ | for inspiring our own project proposals. | ||
+ | b. Next general meeting is on March 25 from 6-9 PM. It’s long because we | ||
+ | will be discussing proposals and projects. However, it will be in a social | ||
+ | setting with food! | ||
+ | b.i. There will be no journal club! | ||
+ | b.ii. Group 1 will take 20 minutes to present their proposal. | ||
+ | c. Next advisor’s meeting is on March 27 from 3-4 PM in IGB. | ||
+ | c.i. Group 1 will present again, and the advisors will give their critiques. | ||
+ | d. Weekly meeting on April 1 | ||
+ | d.i. No journal club! | ||
+ | d.ii. Group 2 presents their proposals | ||
+ | e. Advisor’s meeting on April 3 from 3-4 PM at the IGB. | ||
+ | e.i. Group 2 will present their proposals again. | ||
+ | 3) E. Chiver was presented at the IBE conference. We watched the presentation | ||
+ | that Angela and Jaimie gave. (Attached to the email of these minutes). | ||
+ | a. It was a good novel idea, but it was not possible to transform that many | ||
+ | genes with the small number of people who had lab experience. | ||
+ | b. So for this year, we want to characterize one gene really well and then | ||
+ | build up from that simple concept. | ||
+ | b.i. Another good idea: find another concept and make it easier or | ||
+ | better in some way. | ||
+ | 4) Journal club: “A sensing array of radically coupled genetic ‘biopixels’.” Presented | ||
+ | by Uros | ||
+ | a. Presentation attached | ||
+ | Email list: | ||
+ | Adi Malik <adi.malik24@gmail.com>, | ||
+ | Angela Chen <chen398@illinois.edu>, | ||
+ | Anthony Chau <chau3@illinois.edu>, | ||
+ | Asha Kirchhoff <kirchho2@illinois.edu>, | ||
+ | Bob Chen <riboflavinbob@gmail.com>, | ||
+ | Divya Tankasala <divzmyster30@gmail.com>, | ||
+ | Isiah Ramos <greenstatic92@gmail.com>, | ||
+ | Uros Kuzmanovic <ukuzma2@illinois.edu>, | ||
+ | manda68@gmail.com, | ||
+ | jones28@illinois.edu, | ||
+ | ysjin@illinois.edu, | ||
+ | chrisvrao@gmail.com, | ||
+ | bhalerao@illinois.edu, | ||
+ | courtfuentesevans@gmail.com, | ||
+ | brad_ev02@yahoo.com, | ||
+ | freesto1@illinois.edu, | ||
+ | joannema7@gmail.com, | ||
+ | mmckilli@illinois.edu, | ||
+ | luting@illinois.edu | ||
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- | + | iGEM Meeting Minutes | |
+ | 3/25/12 | ||
+ | Announcements: | ||
+ | - Thanks for the wonderful food everyone! Special thanks to Cara for | ||
+ | organizing this and Anthony for hosting! | ||
+ | - Presentations today! | ||
+ | - Only 6 weeks left! There will be no meetings in May so everyone can focus | ||
+ | on their finals, so we have to make good use of the 5 general meetings we | ||
+ | have left! | ||
+ | - Things to do before summer: | ||
+ | o Clean up the lab! Angela started, but we need to dispose of all the old | ||
+ | chemicals and strains. We also need to make an inventory that will be | ||
+ | digitalized. Isiah will be in charge of the lab, but we are all going to | ||
+ | help! Things to be cleaned: 4 degree room for fridge, -80 and -20 | ||
+ | degree rooms for freezers, lab bench, and lab desk. | ||
+ | o Familiarize ourselves with the protocol that Angela will send out. | ||
+ | o Familiarize ourselves with the lab machinery. PCR, gels, centrifuge. | ||
+ | Get to know these in lab bootcamp. | ||
+ | o Familiarize ourselves with biobricks. We’re going to try to create a | ||
+ | circuit based on previous year’s biobrick kits. Also, the biobricks are | ||
+ | free so if you want one, just go to the part registry to order it. The email | ||
+ | for ordering is hq@igem.org. | ||
+ | o We want to find sponsors. Divya and Adi will needs to collaborate to | ||
+ | create a brochure and start contacting corporate sponsorships. This | ||
+ | will really come together after we figure out what our project is. | ||
+ | - Upcoming publicity events: | ||
+ | o Undergrad research symposium: Divya will be contacting us about | ||
+ | when this it gets closer. | ||
+ | o Volunteering to do chemistry demos with Courtney sometime in mid to | ||
+ | late April. Send Courtney an email if you are interested! | ||
+ | - Collaboration with other teams: | ||
+ | o We have been contacted by University of Michigan to collaborate. We | ||
+ | will see how this progresses as we both come to conclusions about our | ||
+ | separate projects. | ||
+ | o During the summer our goal is to go visit WashU, Northwestern or | ||
+ | both! We will take a weekend off during the summer to have fun with | ||
+ | another iGEM team! Anthony and Cara will collaborate on this | ||
+ | contacting the teams and getting SORF funding. | ||
+ | - General outline of summer schedule: | ||
+ | o There will be a short daily meeting that is mandatory! This is just so | ||
+ | we all know what everyone else is doing and can keep on schedule | ||
+ | and organized. | ||
+ | o We will have deadlines, but flexible lab hours. Come in Mon-Fri as | ||
+ | your work requires. The goal is to lead ourselves and be self-sufficient. | ||
+ | o Our first day in lab is May 16. We get a short little break after finals to | ||
+ | recharge and get ready for a great summer in lab! | ||
+ | o May 19-20, the first weekend we are at the IGB, we will have meetings | ||
+ | on Saturday and Sunday! This is the only weekend we will have | ||
+ | meetings. | ||
+ | o We will also have weekly advisor’s meetings. Courtney will not be | ||
+ | present, but will communicate with us through email. | ||
+ | o During the summer, we have 7 days of travel breaks. You MUST let | ||
+ | Angela know if you want to take more than a week off. This seems like | ||
+ | a lot of work with no breaks, but we want to work hard to try to | ||
+ | complete a great project! If we finish early, there will be more free time | ||
+ | towards the end of August. | ||
+ | o We will finish the wiki during summer! We will also try to | ||
+ | completely finish the project during the summer. | ||
+ | o Human practices will be completed during the summer under the | ||
+ | leadership of Asha with assistance by Cara and Divya. However, | ||
+ | everyone should help! | ||
+ | o We will have social events during the summer. We want to bond and | ||
+ | manage our stress! | ||
+ | Presentations: | ||
+ | **** Note! Our next advisor’s meeting is Tuesday from 3-4. All presentations will | ||
+ | have 5 minutes to talk. A good idea is to start with an elevator pitch. This will be followed | ||
+ | with 5 minutes of discussion. This year the plan is also to choose multiple projects. So | ||
+ | we need ideas – no idea is bad! If you would like to present 2 ideas, you will be able to | ||
+ | present at both advisor’s meetings. **** | ||
+ | Anthony – Production of a New Food Source for Aquaculture of Predatory Fish | ||
+ | Isiah – Bacteria Refined Oil | ||
+ | Adi – Biodegradation of plastic by reengineered E. Coli | ||
+ | Asha – Tuberculosis fighting E. Coli | ||
+ | Bob – Electrical energy from photosynthesis | ||
+ | Uros – gives everyone useful articles/links to past iGEM projects | ||
+ | Angela – Engineering RNA site specific binding proteins | ||
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