User:Macowell/team checkups
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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
