SynBioChicago/Weekly Meetings

February 14, 2010

• Presentation by Nora on "Maintenance of chromosomes by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
• Presentation by Lucy and Annie on Sunday (Paper TBD)
• Presentation by Jules and Alex on Monday (Paper TBD)
• Meeting on Wednesday for event-planning

January 31, 2010

• Presentation followed by simulation viewing and discussion
• Presentation next week by Charles and Amy (Paper TBA)
• Updates on potential speakers
• Updates on potential spring field trips
• Next week's meeting should be at the same time, but may be pushed back a bit.

January 24, 2010

• Presentation of “Environmentally Controlled Invasion of Cancer” by Jules and Alex
• Send topics of interest to Nora
• Read paper for next week, Sunday
• Meeting Thursday at 8:00pm to discuss events
• Next presentation: Sean and Lucy--"A Synchronized Quorum of Genetic Clocks" (see papers page). If you guys find a paper you'd rather present feel free to email to Nora and she can post on the wiki.

January 17, 2009

• Next meeting Thursday 1/21/2010 in GCIS at 7:00pm
• Brainstorming project ideas
• Choosing areas of interest
• Mutation
• Poison sensor
• Poison sensor degradation – build on last year
• Synthetic plasma
• Diabetes
• Gene therapy
• Stem cells
• Repair (blood vessels)
• Cell signaling
• Directed motion
• Cloning
• Speed
• Biofuel
• Foetus
• Tumor development
• Histamine response (allergies)
• Radiation (detection & protection)
• Aging (telomeres)
• Electricity

• Look under ‘Papers’ for papers to be discussed
• For presentations, slide outline:

1. Purpose/aims (1 slide)
2. Background info (1-2 slides)
3. Experimental (5-6 slides)
4. Figures
5. Major experiments
6. Techniques
7. Conclusions
8. Thoughts
9. Potential events this quarter

• Speakers

Professors on campus or near-by campuses
Any topics

• Study break (end of quarter or next quarter)

November 15, 2009

• Presentation on “Foundations for Engineering Biology” - Annie and Charles
• Discussion on feasibility and risks
• Next week’s paper for discussion: “Extreme Genetic Engineering” (Bioethics)
• Presentation next week on projects from other teams at this year’s competition
• Keep your eyes open for future bio presentations to schools
• Next week’s meeting in GCIS 2:00pm, be there by 1:55pm
• Presenters: Amy and Nora

November 8, 2009

• Compilation of papers on synthetic biology on openwetware.org/wiki/synbio/Chicago
• What do you want to learn about synthetic biology?

o Methodology o Past, present, future / practical applications

• Weekly presentations on synthetic biology beginning next week in GCIS

o First paper presentation: describes synthetic biology as we’re learning it right now o Keep a look out for the sign-up list for future presentations on the wiki o Become openwetware.org members

• Presentations on winning projects from this year’s competition
• Brief overview of competition
• Continuing school presentations
• Read paper for next week (Foundations for Engineering Biology), arrive 1:55pm at GCIS
• Presenters for next week: Charles and Annie