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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
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!