Team:Hawaii/Meeting/2008-09-29

Agenda

 * 1) progress update
 * 2) Graystle :)
 * 3) Margaret

Minutes
Present: Dr. Callahan, Dr. Presting, Margaret, Grace, Krystle, Norman
 * 1) Testing our part in Cyanobacteria
 * 2) Sm/Sp resistence of our plasmid (emergency or the pMARG100)
 * 3) plasmid prep and verify size
 * 4) plasmid prep to transform E. coli
 * 5) grow E. coli to obtain enough plasmid
 * 6) verify size by RE digest
 * 7) get plasmid by copy size by compare chromosomal vs plasmid in rtPCR (may take a week to get this to work)

Action Items

 * Grace/Krystle get what we have into the emergency vector (without TT for now)
 * 1 week countdown to do triparental conjugation into cyano (takes 2 weeks to grow)

Coming Up
Judging Criteria Area Descriptions
 * Oct 8th select Track

Dear iGEM participants,

In order to group similar projects together so that they may be judged fairly, the judging committee has come up with the following area tracks:

Food or Energy Environment Health or Medicine Manufacturing New Application Foundational Advance Software

You can find descriptions of each track on the Judging Criteria page.

The judging committee hopes to award prizes in the above areas, conditional on the accomplishments presented by the teams. Each prize will be awarded at the discretion of the judges.

We ask that each team indicate their top three choices by sending an email to judging@igem.org. Please remember to include your team name. The deadline is Wednesday October 8, 11:59pm EST.

Once the judging committee has received all of the team preferences and assigned each team to a track, we will post the assignments so that you may review which track you are part of.

Thank you,

iGEM judging committee