28.06.2012

BIOMOD Meeting:

• We need to rearrange the groups, because the GUV group (Aptamer tests also included so far…) has lots of work to do and so far there are only molbioengineers in the group…Praveen, Agata, Karen…who wants to join this group from NanoBios? We want to establish a new group who is working with Aptamers + do the FRET experiments in B CUBE with Michael Schlierf.
• The GUV group works with Aleksander and he requires the people to be very well prepared, the paper has to be read, the calculations be done, the experiments planned…

  DNA Origami	GUV's	Aptamer
  Design & the structure (mainly Alex) assembly of structure will be lots of pipetting work…	Agata, Praveen, Karen, Varsha, Santiago	Mari + (Praveen, Aga or Karen)
  TEM (Alex and Ali for sample preparation)

• Alex probably could need some help, for the TEM sample preparation -> Ali will help him and already joins him tomorrow (29.6.) for the TEM measurement (9-12),
• Varsha is going to the Long Night of Science meeting tomorrow for introduction at 10 am, in CRTD seminar room one
• The posters should be translated until Sunday evening, Thomas will take care that they are printed in time + reserve the printer time….(done)
• Thomas will give the names of the participating people to Birte for the badges (done).
• What kind of 3D model should we do for the long night to entertain the people and to explain our project?
  • Build a box, with straws colour coded and attach GUV to GUV…. We should make the model entertaining…what kind of materials, please think a little bit more about the structure. We should get velcro, Big GUV with parts covered with sandwich velcros, LUVs with another Velcro but cannot attach to the sandwich, we have the aptamer ball (which mimics our aptamer key system) which takes away the top of the sandwich Velcro so the LUV with the fitting Velcro can attach. Question: where do we get the Velcro? For making the Origami structure we could use polystyrene->Alex will ask/look in the lab.
• Everybody is expected to be in CRTD for the Long Night of Science…at least for a few hours, It starts at 6 officially, but we should be there at 4 or 5.
• Funding:
  • We have more or less three accounts over which we can order things (BIOTEC, CRTD, DIGS-BB)-> we should not loose the overview. Therefore as soon as you order please state it in the Editgrid from which account you want to take it and contact the responsible person (BIOTEC: Juliane Hoth, CRTD: Ilona Kreher, DIGS-BB: Dana Jaster)
  • Alex will be the responsible person for ordering over the DIGS-BB account-> Thomas will write an email to DIGS-BB (done)
  • Unfortunately the Saxon Ministry of Science and Arts has no money for student projects…
  • The letters have been put together by Thomas today and sent….let´s see what replies we will get.