Teleconference Meeting
Agenda
- Introduction a.) your background b.) why you are interested in doing this project c.) where do you see this going?
- consensus on central Virtual Tool/Space for collaboration (DIYBio Wiki on OpenWetWare?)
- Resources [money/people/hardware/labspace] (jot them down on the project space)
- Open Gel Box 2.0 Features RFC as a method?
Minutes
- Introduction
- Present
- Jim Hardy: Maryland, President CEO, Gahaga, been doing molecular biology for 25years
- Mac Cowell: Boston, DIYBio organizer, Organized iGEM in the past
- Tito Jankowski: Brown graduate, member on past iGEM team, now working in Sacramento, Accenture
- Norman Wang: U. Hawaii, Grad Student, iGEM Hawaii 2008 advisor, background in biology and bioinformatics, before going back to academia worked for Biogen Idec in Boston and San Diego on Protein Engineering
- Where do you see this going:
- Mac
- open hardware as a iGEM track
- envision lots of cosumers will be the amateur iGEM teams
- in future integrate Jason Morrison's smartlab http://projectsmartlab.org/
- Tito
- interested in developing new DNA technology
- develop a project across all time zones of US
- have your own gel box DIYBio
- technological advance
- Jim
- make molecular technology available primary secondary school
- a way to develop cheap labs in developing country
- working on innovative hand-held PCR
- Norman
- not to reinvent the wheel
- improve foundational technology (ref to Drew Endy http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7067/full/nature04342.html)
- using open hardware as means of incremental improvement by the masses
- make basic molecular biology tools available to wide audience
- making the basic technology easier, better. It's hard to justify spending time improve (and write about it) as part of a professional degree
- Comment from Jim & Norm
- risk aversion in industry vs academia
- industry: minimize research project risks, innovate processes to sell as product
- academia: take huge risks on research, use 20yr old protocols that are "good enough"
- Project Virtual Space
- Resources
- Norman
- money available for video, people "raise hand to commit" ~$300-400
- lab space to do testing for lab-only reagents if necessary (should avoid toxic stuff, comment by Mac)
- Mac
- should use commonly available safe media, accessible to public
- Meridith Patterson transformation system that can be built yourself
- a spectrophotometer in the works
- test at MIT if necessary
- Jim
- Plastic cutter resources
- can't water-tight glue two pieces of acrylic together without groove
- Kevin Barnes, Harbor Designs
- Mac
- distributing high grade equipment/material that won't fall apart on people
- electronics companies that would make this and distribute
- Tito
- Know a friend with laser cutter acrylic fabrication profession
- Mac
- Access to laser cutters in Boston
- Michael Cassman
- Electrical components: radioshack, digikey
- Money
- money available for making a video
- Mac has the know-how with setting up DIYBio Account for depositing funds that will support projects
- $50 Norman on hardware
- $50 Tito on hardware
- Space
- Norman's lab access: materials and reagents to test out gel box in lab
- Hardware
- Mac: MIT Media Lab, have capacity to make hundreds of prototype (Acrylic Cutting) when it's time
- Tito: Friend who can cut plastics (a business?)
- Jim: Kevin Barnes (original Horizon Gel Box designer) with cutting equipment
- Electrical Components
- radio shack / Mac recommends digikey
- People
- Meridith insight on how to build power supply
- Kevin Barnes
- RFC
- use BBF RFC0 as a template/guide, please read...
- agree to try out RFC as a way to spec out comment on required/recommended/optional features
Action Items
- Jim talk to Kevin about getting involved and share his expertise
- Norman send out email with RFC link
- Everyone edit and comment on the RFC
- Next Meeting Sunday 10amHST/12amPST/3pmEST (Technical Meeting, RFC Discussion)
Reference/Links
President Harbor Designs & Manufacturing, LLC
Design, Engineering, Manufacturing 1100 Wicomico Street | Suite 550
| Baltimore MD 21230 | tel 410 605 9399 | cell 443 744 0370 |
fax 410 605 9499
www.harbordesigns.net (doesn't look like this web site is valid, but the e-mail is)
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