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General Meeting 6/13/06

Meeting started at 6:29 pm.

I. General

a. James Brown came on Monday

b. We have a lot of people on our team (15 to 20)

i. Need to work in shifts in lab

1. Determine how many man hours we have available per week

2. may do multiple projects in parallel

c. Reporting Meeting

i. Team leaders need to write up meetings email them/post them to wiki

1. May create a form for team leaders to fill out

2. Email that meeting synopsis has been posted to wiki

3. Posting Gen Body Minutes on Wiki may not be necessary because its too long etc.

II. Research Committee

a. A comp. sci. major interested in helping organize the wiki

b. Proposal  what research aspects need to be in proposal

i. Object to be most eloquent

c. For proposal only doing night light idea

d. Chemotaxis/toggle switch not main idea, but can have small sub section

e. Research aspect as far as proposal is done. Can now move into more advanced ideas

f. Meeting about what lux operon is/find out practical details would take place (if necessary) after meeting on Thursday 6/15/06.

III. Lab Management

a. Kevin to meet with Prof on Thursday to talk about lab space

b. Need a fridge

c. When are we to order tools  Thursday (6/15) putting together a list of things we need immediately

d. Lab training  may need our own tools: agar plates, pipettes etc

e. Gardner’s money will probably be used through his lab ie we order what we need through his lab

f. Kevin will talk to Gardner and will schedule training.

IV. Proposal Committee: Next meeting Friday 12 pm (bring lunch to the meeting)

a. At last meeting, it was decided to join the fundraising and proposal teams temporarily

b. Two proposals need to get done: Funds and presentation

c. Executive Summary  first part of fundraising proposal to get done before next meeting

d. Need to write it up and work on sample diagrams, and prove what we want to do will work

e. Decided that it needs be 3 to 5 pages; not as detailed as the report we will write later on

f. Basic timeline: going to be doing this past summer; we would be in lab from about 9 am to 9 pm.

V. Fundraising committee

a. $1000 grant from Gardner and have list of people of whom to contact once proposal is done

Next Meeting Tuesday 6:15 pm 44 Cummington
Reading Meeting on 6/15/06 4:30 – 6:30 pm in Ingalls

Meeting adjourned at 7:33 pm.