IGEM team meeting nodes 6/2/14

Agenda

Introductions

Patrik Dmitri Shashank Maria Karen Colin Dave Teddy Advait Rebecca Avinash Geoff

Brief intro to project for new people

wiki: \url{https://wiki.counterculturelabs.org/index.php/Vegan\_cheese} Join our mailing list! \url{https://groups.google.com/forum/#}!forum/ccl-igem

Updates from sub-projects

What happened in the last week? A brief overview.

IP issues

Meet our competition:

   \url{http://muufri.com/}
   \url{https://twitter.com/Muufri}
   \url{http://www.facebook.com/muufri}
   \url{http://www.new-harvest.org/2014/05/hanging-out-with-muufri-at-the-synbio-axlr8r-in-cork-ireland/}
   

IP Options Straw poll:

  * 1. just get the work done, and publish it freely - FOR: 5 Strongly Against: 1  
  * 2. file \& abandon - this makes the prior art *much* more visible to the patent office - FOR: 12 Against: 0
  * 3. Defensive Patent License - FOR: 7 Against: 3 (caveat is cost of this course of action)
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  * Comparison to RCA founding and US Navy patent example.  Would various groups try to buy up patents to kill the project.  If we adopt a strategy to mess up the patents with Prior Art, that's the best outcome.
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  * Will take the results of the straw poll which strongly point to option 2 to file and abandon and send an email to the general ccl-cheese list that unless someone strongly is against this, it will be the way to proceed.  Will try and get a decision and action before the next meeting, with email going out tonight.
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Fundraising

donation tonight: $96

Marc is showing the fundraising video.

Passed the hat for fundraising during -

Feedback on video:

   Might need some subtitles "we're not even british" "we're not even vegans"
   - shouldnt call them little ladies, call them critters (look for alternate to critter perhaps)
   - Generally like the british accent
   
   Started abruptly needs a smoother intro - Cheese - 

Need a better picture of mistreated cows if possible - for cow butts at 0:09 Any stats about cow mistreatment - how many dairy cows in US 260 million dairy cows Lactose intolerant. Subtitles at 13 seconds - Methane release causes global warming Geoff did spot of looking at cheese 40 seconds are cows male or female? 44 - Change to not be ladies - These bio factories this is ... 1:15 - might need a pic of DNA or rotating DNA 1:23 -

   Need to decide on a crowdfunding platform.

Picture of folks at BioCurious Names:

Molecular biology

iGEM DNA distribution kit:

  * \url{http://parts.igem.org/Help:2014\_DNA\_Distribution}
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= Break out into sub-groups

Fundraising

zymoresearch - see Shashank, Johan \url{http://www.zymoresearch.com/}

Molecular biology

iGEM DNA distribution kit:

  * \url{http://parts.igem.org/Help:2014\_DNA\_Distribution}

Proposed goals for upcoming week:

• Order first constructs
• Put fundraising video up, and start spreading the word
• Make list of all required reagents, tools and other consumables, including gBlocks and primers
• Reach out to companies asking for donated reagents (and plasmids from DNA 2.0)