IGEM team meeting notes 1/5/15

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Meeting 1/5/2015 at BioCurious

CCL: BioCurious: Maria, Rebecca, Marc, Emi, Nikola, Michelle Ryan, Owen Ryan, Johan, Advait, Lafia, Meenakshi, Mike Rosenthal, Julienne, Patrik Remote: Irfan, Craig

AGENDA

RVC Board Meeting

Current Board Members:


    Marc Juul Christoffersen (treasurer) 
    Craig Rouskey (chair) 
    Carl Crott 
    Maria Chavez (secretary)  
    Johan Sosa 
    Moises Cassab 
    Lafia Sebastian 
    Meenakshi Choudhary 
    Rachel Linzer 
   new: Emi Nikolov
   new: Advait Patil

Attending meeting on 1/5/15: Craig, Marc, Maria, Johan. Lafia, Meenakshi Not attending meeting: Carl, Moises, Rachel Craig: What are the topics we need to discuss? Craig has been working on Marc: We still need to file the CT1, and get a business license from the city of Oakland Vote to add new members: Advait - unanimous amongst attending board members! Emi - unanimous amongst attending board members! Board Meetings to add new members

Motion: New member approvals once a year

To Do: Maria will find form to add new board members Maria will make a proposal for an ammendment to the bylaws to remove board members who are no longer involved in the project who are inactive, add in term definitions (limit vs term), replacing half the board every year. Board member could excuse themselves from quorum. Do we need supplemental info for an under 18 on our 1023?

Indiegogo Perk Fulfillment

   US stickers have been sent; still need to do international
   Maria: found vendor that does American Apparel T-shirts for $10; organic for $11. http://www.uberprints.com/
   Lab coats we can get printed by tee shirt silk screening at Omni
   2 more cheese tasting couples?

Experiments

   Let's start doing experiments at CCL!
   In Jan they will be launching a Crowdfunding campaign for a space to work in that will be a clean space.
   Study effect of lactose replacement sugars on lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and cheese molds Need to plan experiments
   TODO- Patrik will reach out to UC Santa Cruz about Narwhals 
   see http://www.cheesemaking.com/cheeseculturesandmoldpowders.html https://www.getculture.com/freeze-dried-cheese-cultures/ http://www.culturesforhealth.com/cheese-making/cheese-starter-cultures.html https://www.dairyconnection.com/Page3.html
   Get Fermentor up and running?
   Marc suggests starting up a new WG focusing on bioreactors 
   Label all the things at BioC which are lacking labels (per Eric H's request)
   Ran an SDS page gel of super natant - so we didnt see any protein bands - we need to redo it

Equipment

   SDS-PAGE gel rig
   We've been borrowing Innokenti's gel box, but we really should have our own
   Buy precast gels for whatever working gel box we have at BioC and CCL?
   BioFlo II fermentor at CCL
   Marc has been checking out availability of probes
   Someone should scan in the user manual and put it online
   Incubator + shaking platform at BioCurious
   Is this fully working now?

Should we get a -80? Very expensive in terms of power usage. Look for a half size. Or we could build our own Large Dewar may be more affordable/practical - look at central valley agricultural dewars

 Dewar on craigslist: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/for/4807879921.html

TODO

Patrik: check up on UCSC Narwhal sequencing Marc will put together a materials cost sheet for a -80 Patrik will bring SDS gel to CCL to check which boxes at CCL fit. Rebecca to email Larisa Rudenko from the FDA