IGEM:VGEM/2007/Meetings
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VGEM Meetings
Team Meetings
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 from 9-9:50am
- Agenda
- Discussion on the VGEM Text Packet
- Identify most useful/useless articles
- Discuss project ideas
- Introduction to Synthetic Biology and iGEM by George
- Discussion of Units 1 and 2 of VGEM Text
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 from 9-9:50am
- Agenda
- Discussion of Unit 3 material
- Discussion of further funding/ brochure design
- Discussion of experimental protocols (overview)
- Discussion of project ideas
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 from 9-9:50am
- Agenda
- Discussion of Unit 4 material (attention to the first 4 articles)
- Discussion of summer schedule
- When should we have our breaks?
- Finalization of brochure design
- Set a date for team photograph
- Design ideas for team logo
- Discussion of potential funding sources, including university grants
- Discussion of project ideas
- Medical or environmental engineering problem?
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 from 9-9:50am
- Agenda
- Finalize project timeline
- Discussion of funding
- Discussion of Unit 5 material in detail
- Discussion of project ideas
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 from 9-9:50am
- Agenda
- Team photo
- Brief discussion of letter, brochure and budget memo content
- Discussion of Unit 6 material in detail as follows:
- Emre's summary of "Biobricks"
- Ranjan's summary of "Engineering gene circuits"
- Amy's summary of "Programming and engineering biological networks"
- Kevin's summary of "The device physics of cellular logic gates"
- George's summary of "Genetic parts to program bacteria"
- Discussion of project ideas
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 from 9-9:50am
- Agenda
- Discussion of Unit 7 material in detail as follows:
- Amy's summary of "A synthetic oscillatory network"
- Emre's summary of "Construction of a genetic toggle switch in E. coli"
- Kevin's summary of "Engineering E. coli to see light"
- Ranjan's summary of "Production of isoprenoid pharmaceuticals by engineered microbes"
- Composition of a detailed master list of project ideas
- Composition of a list of questions for Ron Weiss' talk
- What are the main challenges that iGEM teams encounter when starting up?
- Any project ideas?
Spring Break
- Outline of project ideas
- Inventory of required equipment and materials
- Inventory of borrowed equipment and materials
- Inventory of equipment and materials to be purchased, including price estimations
- Research iGEM 2006 projects
- Reading of recently published articles (PDFs to be emailed)
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 from 9-9:50am
- Agenda
- Finalization of project ideas
- Discussion of experimental protocol in detail with Brianne
Wednesday, March 21th, 2007 from 9-9:50am
- Agenda
- Presentation of overall project development scheme - George
- Presentation of project design proposals (including any new, yet thoroughly researched, ideas)
- Construction of master list of biobricks/DNA needed for projects (based on individual's lists)
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 from 8:30-9:50am
- Agenda
- Finalization of project design proposals for group meeting
- Discussion of modeling our systems
- software
- mathematics
- Discussion of recent papers:
- Designing Biological Systems
- Paper 2
- Paper 3
- Paper 4
Group Meetings
Friday, January 26th, 2007 from 3:30-4:30pm
- Agenda
- Introduction of Faculty Advisors and Graduate Mentor(s)
- Synthetic Biology, iGEM, and the 2007 VGEM Team by George
- Discussion of tentative schedule
- Discussion of potential projects
- Open discussion
Friday, March 30th, 2007 from 4-5pm
- Agenda
- Presentation and discussion of final project ideas
Lectures and Talks
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