IGEM:VGEM/2007/Meetings

VGEM

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 from 9-9:50am

 * Agenda
 * 1) Discussion on the VGEM Text Packet
 * 2) *Identify most useful/useless articles
 * 3) *Discuss project ideas
 * 4) Introduction to Synthetic Biology and iGEM by George
 * 5) Discussion of Units 1 and 2 of VGEM Text

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 from 9-9:50am

 * Agenda
 * 1) Discussion of Unit 3 material
 * 2) Discussion of further funding/ brochure design
 * 3) Discussion of experimental protocols (overview)
 * 4) Discussion of project ideas

Wednesday, February 7, 2007 from 9-9:50am

 * Agenda
 * 1) Discussion of Unit 4 material (attention to the first 4 articles)
 * 2) Discussion of summer schedule
 * 3) *When should we have our breaks?
 * 4) Finalization of brochure design
 * 5) *Set a date for team photograph
 * 6) *Design ideas for team logo
 * 7) Discussion of potential funding sources, including university grants
 * 8) Discussion of project ideas
 * 9) *Medical or environmental engineering problem?

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 from 9-9:50am

 * Agenda
 * 1) Finalize project timeline
 * 2) Discussion of funding
 * 3) Discussion of Unit 5 material in detail
 * 4) Discussion of project ideas

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 from 9-9:50am

 * Agenda
 * 1) Team photo
 * 2) Brief discussion of letter, brochure and budget memo content
 * 3) Discussion of Unit 6 material in detail as follows:
 * 4) *Emre's summary of "Biobricks"
 * 5) *Ranjan's summary of "Engineering gene circuits"
 * 6) *Amy's summary of "Programming and engineering biological networks"
 * 7) *Kevin's summary of "The device physics of cellular logic gates"
 * 8) *George's summary of "Genetic parts to program bacteria"
 * 9) Discussion of project ideas

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 from 9-9:50am

 * Agenda
 * 1) Discussion of Unit 7 material in detail as follows:
 * 2) *Amy's summary of "A synthetic oscillatory network"
 * 3) *Emre's summary of "Construction of a genetic toggle switch in E. coli"
 * 4) *Kevin's summary of "Engineering E. coli to see light"
 * 5) *Ranjan's summary of "Production of isoprenoid pharmaceuticals by engineered microbes"
 * 6) Composition of a detailed master list of project ideas
 * 7) Composition of a list of questions for Ron Weiss' talk
 * 8) *What are the main challenges that iGEM teams encounter when starting up?
 * 9) *Any project ideas?

Spring Break (if/when available)

 * 1) Outline of project ideas
 * 2) Inventory of required equipment and materials
 * 3) Inventory of borrowed equipment and materials
 * 4) Inventory of equipment and materials to be purchased, including price estimations
 * 5) Research iGEM 2006 projects
 * 6) Reading of recently published articles (PDFs to be emailed)

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 from 9-9:50am

 * Agenda
 * 1) Finalization of project ideas
 * 2) Discussion of experimental protocol in detail with Brianne

Wednesday, March 21th, 2007 from 9-9:50am

 * Agenda
 * 1) Presentation of overall project development scheme - George
 * 2) Presentation of project design proposals (including any new, yet thoroughly researched, ideas)
 * 3) Construction of master list of biobricks/DNA needed for projects (based on individual's lists)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 from 8-9:50am

 * Agenda
 * 1) Discussion of CellDesigner & SBW
 * 2) Preparation of project proposals for group meeting

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 from 9-9:50am

 * 1) Discussion of recent papers:
 * 2) *George - ''Reduction and synthesis of cellular components and behavior
 * 3) *Emre - Designing biological systems
 * 4) *Ranjan - Assembling building blocks for novel functions
 * 5) *Amy - Fast, cheap and somewhat in control
 * 6) *Kevin - Use of genome-scale models for metabolic engineering
 * 7) Discussion of time schedule

Friday, January 26th, 2007 from 3:30-4:30pm

 * Agenda
 * 1) Introduction of Faculty Advisors and Graduate Mentor(s)
 * 2) Synthetic Biology, iGEM, and the 2007 VGEM Team by George
 * 3) Discussion of tentative schedule
 * 4) Discussion of potential projects
 * 5) Open discussion

Friday, March 30th, 2007 from 4-5pm

 * Agenda
 * 1) Presentation and discussion of final project ideas

Thursday, June 7th, 2007 from 3-4pm

 * Agenda
 * 1) Introduction of our newest group member, Kay Christopher
 * 2) Presentation of progress
 * 3) Discussion

Thursday, January 25th, 2007 from 11-noon

 * Brian Pfleger talk in Chemical Engineering 005

Friday, March 2, 2007 from 2-3pm

 * Ron Weiss talk in MR-5 auditorium