Meeting Minutes for June 30, 2006

From 2006.igem.org

Agenda:
1. Update on project: split into three projects
2. Magnetotactic bacteria
3. everyone happy?
4. Actions

Meeting Notes:
1. Update on project:
- Freeze machine: transformed all parts
- Sender: parts grown up, will start minipreps, restriction digests
- Unfreeze machine: parts grew
- Receiver: grew up parts for miniprep
2. Magnetotactic Bacteria
- they are growing
- wait five to seven days.
- plasmid: Peter: hasn’t found information. Needs help
- Hayato sent Tayhas an email and she has sent it regarding plasmid.
3. Money update
- we have 8000 in account
- Brenden will go and ask Carol
4. Device
- Azeem will talk to Professor Tripathi about building microfluidics chamber
- Guest speaker?
5. Modeling
- installing software
- Peter’s been using it. Has produced model of Azeem’s paper
6. Guest speakers
- reason is to have communications with other people in synthetic biology
- Somebody organizes the guest speaker and that organizer looks after the guest speaker. This job is shared around the department. Would this work for iGEM?
- People talk about project with guest speaker. Sign up for 45 minutes or so.
- Send out an email about signing up to talking with guest lecturer
7. Weekly meetings
- email people when you can’t come
8. Sequencing:
- To avoid sequencing, restriction digest and check with around right size with DNA ladder.
- Limit: 800 base pairs
- If longer than 800 base pairs, can order an oligo.
- Gene Wiz- someone on the third floor
- Prep the samples and send out. See Jamie for help.
9. Pfizer
- Send a thank you note and the wish list- Victoria
10. Project
- Brenden will draw pictures in photoshop
- Have a few to explain each part.
- Somebody put the idea onto the wiki
- Put everything on the public wiki
- Peter will move everything from private wiki to the public wiki
- Brenden to organize group picture