IGEM team meeting notes 11/24/14

Meeting 11/24/14 at CCL

Attendees:

    Zoom: Allen, Advait
     CCL: Craig, Ben, Rebecca, Patrik, Marc, Keith, Matt, Julianne
     BioCurious: Emi, Johan, Meenakshi, Nikola, Wesley and Andrew (doing experiments)

AGENDA

   Project Overview (Marc) Science, Open source?
   Ben: ConAgra makes a vegan milkfat replacement

Experiment update and planning

Nobody from BioCurious online? Planning:

   - plant DNA extraction
   - sugars and fats
   

Patenting progress

Waiting to hear back from Dmitri; Maria is drafting, talking to some patent lawyers

IndieGogo rewards updates

Any progress from anyone? Ben: 1st vegan cheese tasting December 8, with all the Bay Area donors (Republic of V has large selection of vegan cheeses)

   Ben will take lead on purchasing

   make sure to get some Beard Beer for Rogue Ales

Marc ordered stickers; should be here next week. Maria drafting thank you card to include Rebecca: coats at $14.55 Are there rewards where nobody else is bottomlining? Any more Ask a Biohacker requests? last 10 have not yet been solicited?

   - CO2 calculations

   - financial viability

   - How are you different than Monsanto?

Need to get iGEM video and other materials up (Rebecca? Any updates?)Marc has video and permission to upload it (no attribution necessary); no video from tech museum Other stuff:

   Hackathon with Tito on video portals between hackerspace
   Marc finishing the video camera documentation system
   Waiting to hear back from Todd Kuiken on ElSEI stuff

Update from Biocurious

Running SDS-PAGE for all of the bovine proteins. Using micellar casein from Nutrabio.