IGEM:MIT/2007/Notebook/2007-6-22

Undergrad meeting notes

• will you guys add the first half here?

• Decided on Focus: bioremediation (Semmie and Bernice will spend another day to research arterial plaque-targeting and -eliminating bacteria)

• Dividing up research:
  1. Highest Priority: How do we couple metal binding/intra-cellular signaling/surface binding anything?
  • • Edinburgh's arsenic pathway - AK
    • Phosphorylation - AWL
  1. Heavy-metal resistance: the different resistances and their mechanisms - TTP and JH
  2. How long it takes to express luciferase - AK

• E-mail updates on research due Saturday 5PM

• Need to wow Drew Endy on Thursday with a killer presentation. Prepping on Wednesday. Need to step up our game.

• Need team name and apparel ideas...Give out stickers at Jamboree with sticky protein as adhesive

• The next undergrad meeting is Sunday, (6/24) 8PM at SK

• What is our budget?

Plan for this week:

We want to order our display sequences (still need some mods) and design inserts Monday

Tuesday primers

Wednesday (at the latest start) work on presentation for Thursday's meeting