Team:Newcastle/Diary/Agenda/1605





Date 16th May 2016
Time From 14:00
Place CBCB Level 2 Meeting Room
Attendees Emilija (chair), Kristina (minutes), Jake, Josh, Kristina, Ollie, Rupert, Lauren
Apologies
Previous Meeting 11th May 2016

Meeting Agenda

Preparation

Please prepare 10-15 min presentations in groups of two on 5 shortlisted ideas. The presentations should cover how it is going to work and science behind it, objectives, limitations and drawbacks, BioBricks and medal opportunities.

Please email your presentation slides to the list before 12:00 on Monday the 16th May so that they can be combined into one presentation to make it easier to get at during the meeting.

Reminder of items from the previous meeting

Completed

Item Person Assigned
Visas Completed: Lauren
Create a diary/shared calendar for arranging holiday Jake
Arrange to meet up and discuss rough ideas before next meeting Everyone

Standing

Visas Everyone
Decide if we are going to iGEM UK or iGEM Europe meet-up Everyone
More info about UK meet up Ollie
Start thinking about what we are going to do for the ‘Beyond the bench’ requirement. Everyone
Write a short bio for the wiki Everyone
Chase up past iGEM-ers Ollie
Investigate discounted consumables Emilija
Investigate other sponsorship Kerry
Come up with a rough schedule and list of deadlines/time-scales Kristina
Contact Jane Calvert Kristina

Agenda

  1. Apologies

  2. Approval of minutes from last meeting

  3. Review of the last meeting and previous action items.

    1. Update of completed items

      1. Group Calendar – Jake has set up a group calendar. Only Lauren update the dates so far. Reminder for everyone to do it.

      2. Internship start date – the last exam date is the 8th June so it was decided to start the internship on Monday 13th June.

      3. WhatsApp Group – Kristina had trouble adding Tom and Jem to the WhatsApp Group.

      4. Sponsorship from PEILS and John Woods was discussed.

      5. Last week’s meeting on Wednesday.

    2. Standing items

      1. Visas

        1. Just a reminder about visas for everyone.

        2. These can be applied for here.

        3. Once you’ve applied and then when you receive your visa, update the spreadsheet here so that we can keep track of progress.

      2. Reminder to start thinking about activities for ‘Beyond the bench’ requirements.

      3. Reminder to start writing up a quick bio about yourself and your interests for the team info page on our wiki. Advisors as well. More guidance can be found on our existing wiki page. Essentially think of something interesting to write about yourself and then add it to this document.

      4. UK and Paris Meet up – any new information?

      5. Contacting past iGEM-ers (Ollie)

      6. Contacting Jane Calvert (Kristina)

      7. Any new sponsorship ideas?

  4. Presentations.

    Running Order:
    Environmental Logging – Kristina and Jake

    Alligator blood – Rupert and Josh

    Rust – Josh and Kerry

    Bees – Lauren and Jake

    Dental Caries – Emilija and Ollie

  5. Any other business.

  6. Next Meeting