Klapperich Lab:Notebook/Lab Meeting Notes/2008/09/08

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8 September 2008 Lab Meeting Agenda
† Announcements
 * Fall Group Meetings will be on Tuesdays from 12-2pm in room 705


 * Register for CIMIT conference if you want. Irene can reimburse.
 * Register for MRS Boston if you want to.

† Flu R01
 * Meeting still not set
 * Plaque assay. Have everything, will run this week.

† SEPSIS Project/Chip Bonding Issues
 * YES Check if Anlee can do backscatter electrons on new SEM
 * What is the STD temperature and pressure for bonding??? We need to nail this down.
 * What material are the plaques made out of? We should try to get resin that is the same material as the plaques that we bought (JP)
 * We can think about building our own straw system like Fraunhofer's.

†RNA project † COBRA
 * Stephanie met with Sonali, Cathie and Anirban to discuss experimental plan.
 * Sonali will teach Stephanie Jurkat Culture.
 * Mark finish control circuit (Temp, humidity, pressure) design and ordered parts
 * Evaporation fixture will be picked up during this week, and assembled after comeback
 * IBC for our lab revision submitted 9/4
 * Tests on chips with covers underway
 * Jane is investigating the multilayer design

† Valve Array
 * Waiting for fixture still from Melissa
 * Need complete assembly picture before 14th, forward it to Jaephil for whitepaper
 * Basic software in place

† Fraunhofer: LOAC
 * Still Still troubleshooting

† Biointerfaces group
 * Brett, Mincheol, Jaephil and Hussam had meeting and decided to try DRIE (by Brett) with SU-8 (by Mincheol) together
 * i-line(365nm)has diffraction limiting resolution about 2um at best
 * Mincheol will try the device as we have it
 * Hussam, Brett and MinCheol are going to make a protocol for this process
 * AZP 4620 from Clariant. Hussam will try this photoresist (positive)

† CIMIT Flu
 * Met with Sepsis Nurse Tuesday. Preliminary plan for IRB submission at Harvard in place. Target date 1/1/09

† PCR
 * QQ Model has 30 cycles. MinCheol will try the model. Need to upgrade the Star-CD program. Dan Kamalic has to do this.
 * Dan fixed Star-CD.
 * What are the specs on Wong's pump? More clamps for the syringe. 2 clamps, the secured syringe does not move. It can be set to 4 decimal places for the speed. Harvard Apparatus PHD2000 programmable.
 * QQ get quote for PHD2000.
 * QQ needs to design a TaqMan Assay for the lambda phage PCR
 * PEG results are good but we need to get rid of the primer-dimers before publication

† RCA
 * STILL Working on a test chip to examine mat'ls compatibility
 * 50 microliter test chip made/ may be and issue getting the stuff out. Especially after the wash.
 * Heiko, Sonali, and Jaephil write their own part in a whitepaper and forward it to Cathie by 14th.

† Senior project
 * New students will be recruited.
 * Megan works on micro membrane valve and pump development as sr project.

† F31: Cochlea

† Silica Optimization (Lambda):
 * Ongoing




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