IGEM:Stanford/2009/Meetings/2/4/09

Meeting Info

 * When: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 from 7:30 to 9
 * Where: Y2E2 Rm 105
 * Leaders: Ming
 * Secretary: Mark

Ideas for Meeting

 * 5x5 presentations

5x5 Presentation Topics
(10 min)'' -
 * Suzie - Steven Artandi sartandi@stanford.edu Stanford School of Medicine- Hematology Member of Bio-X and the Cancer Center Telomeres, TERT, Stem Cells, and Cancer "Telomere uncapping in progenitor cells with critical telomere shortening is coupled to S-phase progression in vivo" http://www.pnas.org/content/104/45/17747 [[Media:5X5_TELOMERES.ppt‎|Telomeres]] (10 min)
 * Anusuya [[Media:Carbon_Sequestration_Presentation.pdf|Carbon sequestration]](10 min) -
 * ''Ariana [[Media:Igem_presentation_ariane_draft_2.ppt|Unnatural amino acids]] [A chemical toolkit for proteins — an expanded genetic code]
 * Robert [[Media:Ovadia_Robert_5x5.ppt|Virus engineering]] (10 min) - Engineered Virus Targets Brain Tumors
 * Joseph [[Media:Bioluminescence-1.ppt|Unnatural amino acids]] (10 min) -

Answers?

 * Do yeast have viruses? - Yeast do have viruses. Here is one example.
 * Quorum Sensing
 * Polkadorks!