SynBioChicago/Weekly Meetings

February 14, 2010

 * Presentation by Nora on "Maintenance of chromosomes by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
 * Presentation by Lucy and Annie on Sunday (Paper TBD)
 * Presentation by Jules and Alex on Monday (Paper TBD)
 * Meeting on Wednesday for event-planning

January 31, 2010

 * Presentation followed by simulation viewing and discussion
 * Presentation next week by Charles and Amy (Paper TBA)
 * Updates on potential speakers
 * Updates on potential spring field trips
 * Next week's meeting should be at the same time, but may be pushed back a bit.

January 24, 2010

 * Presentation of “Environmentally Controlled Invasion of Cancer” by Jules and Alex
 * Send topics of interest to Nora
 * Read paper for next week, Sunday
 * Meeting Thursday at 8:00pm to discuss events
 * Next presentation: Sean and Lucy--"A Synchronized Quorum of Genetic Clocks" (see papers page). If you guys find a paper you'd rather present feel free to email to Nora and she can post on the wiki.

January 17, 2009

 * Next meeting Thursday 1/21/2010 in GCIS at 7:00pm
 * Brainstorming project ideas
 * Choosing areas of interest
 * Mutation
 * Poison sensor
 * Poison sensor degradation – build on last year
 * Synthetic plasma
 * Diabetes
 * Gene therapy
 * Stem cells
 * Repair (blood vessels)
 * Cell signaling
 * Directed motion
 * Cloning
 * Speed
 * Biofuel
 * Foetus
 * Tumor development
 * Histamine response (allergies)
 * Radiation (detection & protection)
 * Aging (telomeres)
 * Electricity


 * Look under ‘Papers’ for papers to be discussed
 * For presentations, slide outline:
 * 1) Purpose/aims (1 slide)
 * 2) Background info (1-2 slides)
 * 3) Experimental (5-6 slides)
 * 4) Figures
 * 5) Major experiments
 * 6) Techniques
 * 7) Conclusions
 * 8) Thoughts
 * 9) Potential events this quarter

Professors on campus or near-by campuses Any topics
 * Speakers
 * Study break (end of quarter or next quarter)

November 15, 2009

 * Presentation on “Foundations for Engineering Biology” - Annie and Charles
 * Discussion on feasibility and risks
 * Next week’s paper for discussion: “Extreme Genetic Engineering” (Bioethics)
 * Presentation next week on projects from other teams at this year’s competition
 * Keep your eyes open for future bio presentations to schools
 * Next week’s meeting in GCIS 2:00pm, be there by 1:55pm
 * Presenters: Amy and Nora

November 8, 2009
o Methodology o Past, present, future / practical applications o First paper presentation: describes synthetic biology as we’re learning it right now o Keep a look out for the sign-up list for future presentations on the wiki o Become openwetware.org members
 * Compilation of papers on synthetic biology on openwetware.org/wiki/synbio/Chicago
 * What do you want to learn about synthetic biology?
 * Weekly presentations on synthetic biology beginning next week in GCIS
 * Presentations on winning projects from this year’s competition
 * Brief overview of competition
 * Continuing school presentations
 * Read paper for next week (Foundations for Engineering Biology), arrive 1:55pm at GCIS
 * Presenters for next week: Charles and Annie