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

• (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?
• (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

(the Team to create this ... delegate your first tasks!) - wiki/simple research exercise)

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 ...

• (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?
• chief wiki maintainer
• rotate responsibility for agenda/minutes
• circular accountability???
• it's up to you?
• primary contact (for iGEM)?

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

Synthetic Biology Society

• first meeting?
• what do we want this for?