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Bay Area RSI

Andy Mendelsohn - 650.965.1544

3:35 12 July

Just got $5000 from avid (one team member friends with son of high-up executive apparently), have been waiting for money to order constructs and pay registration fee (have earmarked $2500 for Jamboree fees & travel). They have an external wiki, so I asked them to put a link up to it on the iGEM07 wiki. Basically they got started in the middle of June and have a deadline for the final design tomorrow, (friday 13). So far they haven't done any wetwork at all. I encouraged them to get going on that.


Berkeley LBL

Connie (Yisheng) Kang - 510.260.7188

3:50 12 July

No response; left message to please call back


Chiba

Daisuke Umeno - Phone number not provided


Colombia-Israel

Raul Cuero - 936.261.5011?


Duke

Jingdong Tian - 919.684.3494

3:54 12 July

No response; left message to please call back


ETHZ

Sven Panke - +41 44 632 76 60

4:04 12 July

Let it ring several times, then realized it was probably 10:00pm there. Not sure if ETH even has a team this year...


Glasgow

David GILBERT - +44 141 330 2563

4:06 12 July

No response; left message to please call back. Right... it's also probably 9:00pm there.


Lethbridge

Hans-Joachim Wieden - +1.403.329.2303

4:09 12 July

No response; left message to please call back.


Minnesota

Yiannis Kaznessis - 612.624.4197

4:11 12 July

Things not going well! Haven't gotten needed additional funding. Team disintegrated about a month ago. Not enough students "subscribed to the idea of the competition" - they already had research topics & advisors. Yiannis blames himself for not advertising enough, emphasizing potential of iGEM projects & career path benefits. Two bottlenecks he encountered: forming the team and getting the resources needed to do experiments -> can't get funds to do experiments without lots of students, can't attract & hold onto students without the resources.

Can't participate this year at this point. Next year: the bioinformatics institute (BSI) makes offers to students around February; Yiannis wants to explicitly present an iGEM team as one of the projects students can apply to work on at that point in time, instead of in may, as it occurred this year.

Action Items

  • Check on status of Minnesota registration money, refund if possible
  • follow up with Yiannis in August to make sure he's coming to the Jamboree


Missouri Miners

Katie Shannon - 573.341.6336

4:30 12 July

4 students working on timer, 3 working on breathalizer. Did it that way because funding limited team size to less than or equal to 4, so they had 2 teams. Haven't had problem with registration fee;

What could we do better next year for 1st year teams? Get registration website online much sooner! How did you get a team together? Made flyers (using central questions), had info session, got 30 students! Not as many engineers, but that's probably because she didn't hang as many on the engineering side of the campus. Had organizational meeting in time for students to apply for ORUI ($1000) on-campus summer funding (deadline in april) - would have been harder to support team if She had missed this deadline. One of the stipulations of the ORUI funding is that the students have to write a little paper about their experience - we should ask for copies.

Action Items

  • Email Katie Shannon to request team to put project abstract, picture, and roster online.
  • Email Katie Shannon & Todd Eckdahl about organizing an august meet-up / bbq.
  • Email Katie Shannon at end of summer to request copies of ORUI student essays.


Naples

Diego di Bernardo - +39 081 6132 319


Peking

Yiping Wang - +86 010 62758490


Prairie View

Raul Cuero - 936.261.5011


Purdue

Jenna Rickus - Phone number not provided

4:09 12 July

No response; left message to please call back.


Lethbridge

Hans-Joachim Wieden - +1.403.329.2303

4:09 12 July

No response; left message to please call back.


Wisconson

Franco Cerrina - 608.263.4955

3:30 12 July

No response; left message to please call back