Team:Hawaii/Meeting/2008-06- 2

Minutes
Present: Dr. Presting, Grace, Krystle, Margaret, Norman


 * 1) Proposals
 * 2) Draft due Thurs. 6/5
 * 3) Identify problem/question, history of the topic, value of your project
 * 4) Primers
 * 5) Dr. Presting suggests that we synthesize primers that are specific for the start/end of our desired PCR product rather than use Primer3 suggestions (avoid additional undesired nucleotides in product)
 * 6) Test primers, then go back to Primer3 if things don't work as expected
 * 7) CO2 incubator
 * 8) Krystle working on making a CO2 incubator to be placed in temperature gradient incubator
 * 9) Growth w/o CO2 incubator possible, but will take twice as long to form colonies (4 weeks, as opposed to 2 weeks w/ CO2
 * 10) Test heterotrophic growth by adding glucose to growth media
 * 11) May not need CO2 incubator if this works and we're not working with photosynthesis-related processes