Team:Newcastle/Diary/Minutes/2705





Date 27th May 2016
Time From 15:00
Place CBCB Level 2 Meeting Room
Attendees Rupert (chair), Josh (minutes), Kristina, Kerry, Lauren, Ollie
Apologies Emilija (15.15), Dana (15:30), Jake (16:00)
Previous Meeting 16thMay 2016

Meeting Agenda

Items from the previous meeting

Standing Agenda (Proposed)

  1. Apologies

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

  3. Where we are in the project plan and any upcoming deadlines.

  4. Beyond the lab bench.

  5. (in future) updates on sub-projects.

  6. (in future) the wiki

  7. Visas!

  8. Any other business.

  9. Reminder of next meeting agenda.

Minutes

  1. Visas should be completed individually as soon as possible, the potential hotel is on the suggested list on the iGEM website (yet to be confirmed).

  2. We have been contacted by another team on twitter, have we replied? Need to make links with other teams for ‘beyond the bench’ requirements for a gold brick.

  3. WhatsApp, add all advisers to the whatsapp group to ensure all conversations about iGEM are seen by everyone. Neil (07528970592), Martin (07534270253), James (07531593954), Tom (07561317006), Jem (07930285870), Michael (07791364967).

  4. Remaining tasks have been assigned to team members;

  • Medal Requirements (Josh)

  • Contact past iGEM members (Ollie)

  • Collect exam dates (Rupert)

  • Consumables (Emilija)

  • Sponsorship (Kerry)

  • Create a rough schedule of key dates (Kristina)

  • Arrange extra meeting times (Jake)

  1. Matt.Peake must be added to the current mailing list.

  2. Two weeks from today to finalise 5 ideas from different tracks but always mention new ideas until the final idea has been decided.

  3. The wiki is difficult to use but please no complaints. Other teams have not started theirs yet so is not of main concern as yet.

  4. Presentations of ideas

  5. Ideas were linked and the success of the ideas were thought about regarding certain characteristics such as: emotive, brick, feasibility, local expertise and originality.

Reminder of the next meeting

The next meeting will be at 15:00 4th May in CBCB Level 2 Meeting Room.

The meeting is being run by Lauren (chair) and Kerry (minutes).