Team:BCCS-Bristol/Calendar-Main/18 June 2008

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Meeting: Final Project Presentations

Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Location: BCCS Office

Agenda

• Funding for undergraduates members of the team
• Presentation of project ideas
• Preparation of the meeting with the advisors on 25th June
• AOB

Attendees

Summary

1. Funding currently stands as follows:
   • Ian is being funded directly by BBSRC
   • Maria has secured personal funding
   • Biochemistry department has agreed to fund up to 2 students
   • Biology department has agreed to fund to up 3 students. Obviously there are more than 3 biology students so it will be necessary to consider how this money can be split based on commitment (see actions).
   • We may consider approaching some commercial sponsors to secure possible expenses for lab work. This needs to be agreed first though.
   • Stipend will be for 10-12 weeks and it is envisaged that they will start on or after the 1st July.
2. Project presentations (Powerpoint slides can be found here):
   • Radio Receiver - Extending the work in a theoretical paper. The physics for the project has not yet been fully thought through meaning it is not yet fully understood the frequency range or power that would be required to cause effect. Initially a wide-band input of varying power could be used but it would be good to single out the major frequencies. To detect a change in conformational state FRET was initially proposed, however, this requires skilled operators which may not be available in Bristol. Instead, a bi-partite GFP was suggested. On order to get a working product, the calcium binding site will need to be randomly mutated and screened to produce a working sequence that can then be used in a more useful way (e.g. signalling cascade). There are some practicalities in getting hold of RF emitters but they should be available from the communications group in engineering.
   • Random Number Generator -

Actions

• (Everyone) TBA