Meeting Minutes for May 16, 2006
From 2006.igem.org
• Want to define our project by the end of the semester?
• Hiyato to contact namiko, jimmy shu and crawford once we have idea for funding
• Ana and hiyato to organize meeting to define goals and general tasks along with azeem
• Do each department have requirements?
• Need progress report for presidents office
• Igem requirements as well (poster)
• Poster sessions over the summer (targan and jodi hall can help ) Brendan
• Cs and physics approached, referring to other departments, nothing from cs or physics
• Have physics profs not students
• Not likely to get department funding anymore
• CGP, but would be a presentation for John seteby (Jamie g), worth a shot
• transfer of $$ account, admin office in 80 waterman
• Workshops
• First week afternoons looking good, Victoria and Brendan have obligations @ 3
• Need to narrow down which workshops (PCR, cell culture, etc)
• Annie and Jason meeting about workshops after journal club
• Remind people running workshops to write down protocols, ana has them from a class, binder in the lab? On the wiki? Take from open wet ware?
• Igem has a link to labs, will have lab protocols
• Monday – Karen organizing lab safety training session
• Ana to give practical health and safety, what not to sniff, touch, etc, to be done on Monday morning – as well as how to keep a lab book, important because most people not full time will be a primary source of communication
• Tues – PCR and gel stuff with Jason and Azeem, or maybe to be done in small groups on Jason and azeem’s project, would have to be later in the day
• Wed- bacteria and cell culture (Jamie g) and western blotting (hiyato)
• Ana recommends doing it as we need it so that people don’t forget
• Annie should meet jodi hall and Kathy, in charge of MDL, have a chat, school projects not until jun 26th so we have access until then, can use equip when not using it
• How are we on reagents? We’ll order as we go
• Yard sale of reagents? – ana will look into when that happens
• Put a list on the wiki so we can beg for what we need (Jason or Peter)
• Contact rich roberts to see if new England biotech will donate equip – Brendan and john
• Wiki needs to be organized – Peter to do it
• Budget shortfall on reagents? – tap alumni for $$ and equipments (Jamie L and Victoria)
• We will have an account with the stock room
• Making stock solutions workshop to be in first week – ana on Monday morning
• Equip and reagents to be organized by workshop
• Will have keys soon so that we can put things in lab
• MDL to donate glassware, Jason to meet Kathy
• Jason to send list and people will email back if they have the reagents, then we will know what we need to purchase
• Alunmi funding, say what we are looking for/need (PCR machine, etc.)
• Meet every Monday morning for week plan, and then every Friday afternoon to see what did/didn’t happen and go well
• Will continue journal club as well if desired
• Goals plan will define projects
• For beginning should try to be there all at the same time, once get skill set can be there alone and know what you need to do
• Can someone be in charge on Monday (annie) and Friday (brendan) meeting
• Journal club (peter) organizer
• Online excel spreadsheet so can edit when you are around, know when people are/aren’t there (Victoria)
• A white board perhaps? –
• For first few weeks will probably be 9-5, then will be a bit more independent
• Not encouraged to work late at night alone, for safety don’t work alone at night, only work when people are around in the lab or on the same floor
• Should get safety goggles with training
• Will be a requirement of a weekly repot on what goals are and what you accomplished, to be kept by funded people on wiki
• Brendan to talk to his concentration advisor on Monday
• Time line for first month, doesn’t think project can be well planned in the next two weeks, but should be done as soon as possible
• Faculty pushing to have things done by the time the lab opens, it’s not binding they just want to see a plan of some kind, it can change with the data
• Peter – to format minutes so that actions stand out, speak about future plan so that it’s stated on the wiki
• Goal is that undergrads will slowly take over and use the grads as a resource
• Jamie G – agrees with azeem but thinks that ana’s point is good, the more we do now the better off we are, will talk with Jason and annie about equip
• Meghan and Jamie and annie to meet as full time people in the lab and work out daily management
• Azeem leaves Friday afternoon, ana, azeem and hiyato to meet before fac meeting to work out a research plan, at 3.30
• Sheldon funding fell through, talk with Jamie L and Victoria
• Too late for alumni magazine
• John to look into long term team funding for the team (next year)
