IGEM:The Citadel/Notebook/15 April 2010

The Meeting on April 15th, 2010

Homework For the Meeting

• Continue looking at iGEM projects
• Look at the Oil Sands Initiative page on the iGEM website
• Come up with brilliant and interesting iGEM projects

On the Agenda

• Get John and Edelson registered on OWW -- FAIL (Must be done on April 20th)
• Teach wiki operation to everyone -- DONE (partially)
• Start mindmapping -- DONE
• Decide on favorite iGEM research fields -- DONE (but really delayed until April 20th)
• Break into research field groups for the weekend -- DONE
• Talk about recruitment. Do we want any more? Less? -- FAIL (but John mentioned a new iGEMer)
  • Goal: 10 undergrad, 2 grad; talk to CofC, MUSC, Trident, highs (Porter Gaud, Bishop England, Academic Magnate, Wando, St. Joe's), Chem. and EE Depts.
• Explain team commitments and expectations to everyone

Meeting Notes

Check out these two sites for a list of interesting ideas.

Most-wanted Parts in Synthetic Biology

iGEM Idea Exchange (Has links for the engineerable P. patens moss)

Things to Do

• Arrange meeting with Dr. Rosenblum and Dean Groetsch to go talk with Foundation -- DONE (partially - I'm still waiting for the details)
• Talk to Dr. Zanin about the hurdles of kids in labs -- DONE
• Look for sponsorship
  • Jonh's Biotech in FL
  • Connections to Fischer Scientific (Dr. R mentioned this)
  • The Provost talked about an alum in Seattle who had set up an bioinformatics startup.
  • Oil Sands Initiative
  • Local biotech (e.g. Genphar)