IGEM:Melbourne/2008/Agendas/FirstMeeting

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First Team Meeting Agenda
Link to First Meeting Minutes

Meeting Date: 12 December, 2008 (5.30pm)

Meeting Location: Bio21 Level 1 Conference Room, Meeting Outside at specified time.

Meeting Logistics: table water, order pizza? otherwise bring snacks

Present: insertnamehere

Absent: insertnamehere

(purely suggestive... change at your will)

Current Time ~ 2.5 hours

Meeting Primer
 * minutes taker
 * time keeper

Introduction
 * (30min)Team Roundtable: names, degrees, nicknames, favourite sport/music/film/book/pet/color etc. tell us something unusual about yourself ?
 * (15min)Perspectives on iGEM - what are we aiming for? the moon? what are the prizes/medals?
 * need to make contact with team members not here ... let's give them a ring (skype!)

Administrative

(the Team to create this ... delegate your first tasks!) - wiki/simple research exercise)
 * (5min)Bio21 Access Cards - need to fill in paper work
 * (10min)OpenWetWare Accounts - everyone to apply, can't edit the wiki without it
 * (5min)Contact Details - fill in on the wiki ... online chat? AIM/gmail etc... it was useful for us, or just subscribe to wiki watchlist?
 * wireless internet connection - need to get financing to dept from Phil, do we want to up the speed back to (1MBit/12GB)???
 * (5min)iGEM packs ... suggested
 * iGEM rules
 * iGEM Kit ... biobricks
 * standard assembly
 * biology/lab primer: cloning, transformation, culture, miniprep, digest, ligation, pcr, sequence, mutagen etc.
 * engineering/modelling primer
 * wiki primer

Expectations for the year ahead...
 * Preliminary Timetable
 * Dec-Jan-Feb - heavy brainstorm/research
 * Jan-Feb - Begin Lab work (prelim)
 * end of Feb - project finalised, order parts from registry or other labs, start modelling
 * Feb - start creating timeline/plan of when things should happen (or do this earlier)
 * Mar-Apr - start the hardcore lab, modelling
 * May - iGEM seminar (register team/project)
 * Jun-Jul - more lab and modelling
 * Aug-Sep - more lab and modelling... hopefully finishing most things by now ... making sure wiki is up-to-date
 * Oct - send DNA to MIT, finish wiki
 * Nov - go to Jamboree

Team Dyanmics
 * [| Effective Team Dynamics] - have a read ... some good stuff if you wish to use it...
 * (30min)OGSM framework - objectives / goals / strategies / measurements : up to you if you want to use it...
 * objectives - make finals/win the biobrick/
 * goals - solve a specific medical/environmental/energy problem / 1000 submitted biobricks / extensive modelling
 * strategies - proposed actions to achieve goals
 * brainstorm, research, plan, work, pray, go to jamboreee!!!
 * measurements -
 * 1/3 month review ... measure progress
 * how is the wiki being maintained... standard wiki processes for creating new pages etc.
 * is the lab work productive/ is the work load spread out
 * create a time line ... of what you hope to achieve when ... give yourself deadlines [very rough at first], and review when you come to them ...
 * this is likely to be a complex construction timeline... do you want to use Project/Gantt charts ie find critical path etc, who will do this ??? it def would have been useful for us ... since things were just always being pushed back


 * (5min)team procedures - minutes, agenda, wiki, accountability
 * (5min)team rules - meeting attendance, communication, meeting snacks

Roles
 * (10min)
 * not defined at start, but define as you go along?
 * suggestions...
 * chief wiki maintainer
 * lab coordinator
 * modeling coordinator
 * research coordinator
 * rotate responsibility for agenda/minutes
 * circular accountability???
 * it's up to you?
 * primary contact (for iGEM)?
 * igem administrative person
 * in charge of tickets/hotels/deadlines/payments... have this as one person?
 * need to have team name
 * need to have team logo
 * need to have team t-shirt
 * need to have team mascot ... just kidding

Brainstorming/Research
 * (15min)suggestions
 * individual - go away and research on your own, come back with suggestions in Jan
 * buddy - team up with one other person and work together
 * whole team - coordinated creativity on wiki

Synthetic Biology Society
 * first meeting?
 * what do we want this for?

Finalise Action Points
 * minutes done by insertname and inserttime
 * next meeting agenda coordinated by insertname and inserttime
 * iGEM primer parts to be done by insertname and insert date

Next Meeting Time
 * insert here