30.07.2012

1. Thomas will contact TU Dresden again to get the Money they promised as well as GSK Foundation
2. Meeting this week with Juliane Hoth (Thursday or Friday: 8 am):
   1. Varsha and Praveen, Santiago will go with Thomas to get an overview over funding.
   2. Meeting with Supervisors beginning of next week (Aga will organize: maybe next monday):
   3. Money issue (what is process so far, contact of companies? Zeiss, Nikkon, JPK,….)
   4. Who is able to join us in the US?
   5. We have some companies who support us with Material, what kind of Material should we get, who needs what? Aptamer group: Needs to work this week, exams are over!
3. Questions to be answered this week about the aptamer group:
   1. Which Aptamer do we use? (Which Oligosequence?)
   2. How do we evaluate the opening of the Aptamer (Arrange a meeting with Michael: FRET!!)
   3. Experimental design – (PP – Presentation next week – merge with Origami group)
   4. What kind of FRET dyes do we need (Quencher – Donor), where can we buy it and how much, how is the labeling procedure (talk to Dominik)?
4. GUV group:
   1. Order Oligos
   2. Use Oligos and stain them with Fluorophor
   3. Dominik has stains to label Oligos at 3-Prime (the one who is used for the linkage to the GUV…just without the cholesterol),
   4. A meeting needs to be arranged to get introduction to Microscopy! (Arrange meeting this week to be maybe next week or the week after: ask Aleksander (Olec) who is responsible)
   5. AIM: Work on your own, without supervisors look over the shoulders…soon!!
   6. Procedure: aleksander expects that the procedure will take a whole day.
   7. Sequence: Electroformation: at 9 am, Microscopy late in the afternoon.
   8. Check with the Fluorophores, Problem might be the Linker, couple Cholesterol with new Oligo or try everything out with the Structure itself,
   9. Maybe one can do TEM with the GUV coupled Origami
5. Biolympics who takes care?
   • Include some other class mates and Svea (Varsha will take care!)
6. Wiki:
   • Schedule: How to see the work until the abstract submission in September until end of the week, everybody!!
7. Origami:
   • Somebody should get an introductory course to work with TEM (additionally to Alex)
8. Break:
   • We can not afford to stop working due to vacation! We will modify the editgrid where everybody can put in when they work.
9. Meeting with Opitz:
   • He maybe can pay a flight, but has to talk to other directors at fraunhofer. He will get back to us in the middle of August.
10. T-Shirts:
    • Somebody has to design the T-Shirts (Middle of September…: Karen will design a CUTE Dinosaur^^),
11. Application of our system to sell the story in the presentation. Meeting with Marino Zerial next week (Praveen),
12. How many want to have a Matlab license?
    • Santiago, Praveen, Varsha, Aga (one B CUBE computer: 5 Licenses: Santiago organizes it).
13. Meeting with Transinsight:
    • They will probably support us with 200 € and he (CEO: Michael Alvers) will support us with marketing hints (we should send him the presentation and present in front of him to get hints and shape the basic idea out, make it understandable and provoke questions); He will get back to us after the decision.
14. VISA Photos: Thomas will send around where he did them – he knows visa requirements of USA,
    ##Questionnaire, Letter from BIOTEC that you are studying here, BIOTEC Transcript of records needed please contact Anne / Martina immediately
15. Thomas will make Flowcharts for What happens if a company gives us money? What happens if I want to order sth?
16. Regular Meetings: Mondays: 5:30 pm; Fridays: 4 pm (before beer Hour, Update of the week!!)