20160609 Board meeting

Agenda of the Board Meeting

Date: Thursday, June 9th, 20.00-21.30pm
Place: UniverCité

Composition

Chair

• Luc as president

Items

Welcome address

(Luc, 2 min)

Point 0: public minutes

(Luc, 1 min)

Get ok from all board members to upload minutes on wiki (or else discuss alternative below)
Objections?

Point 1: Projects updates

It is important that every board member stays up to date with all main projects. Add link when relevant.

BeerDeCoded

Update from Gianpaolo (5min)

MC plans?

Living Instruments

Update from Luc (5min)

Octanis

Update from Sam (5min)

Point 2: Funding Applications

Genewiz

Application to this "Nominate your startup lab to win a $5,000 credit of GENEWIZ Services" competition?

Disclosure here.

Joint Outreach with SIB

Gianpaolo to meet the SIB outreach team the day before to give the latest updates.

Point 5: Upcoming OpenHackuarium nights

Already planned

Yann P, can you give us an overview of what is cooking?

Molecular Biology day/evening

Luc (3 min)

• WHEN? OpenHackuarium ?
• WHO? Luc+Gianpaolo+young researchers from neighbouring institutions?
• WHAT? Discussion around the state of the art as well as basic mol biol technologies.

Topics to be included in the discussion:

• DNA (5 min introduction)
• Genes (5 min introduction)
• GM (how it is applied in bacteria, years, cells, animal, plants)
• CRISPR (5 min introduction to the technique, and why it's hype)
• Biotech (5 min on why all this is relevant)

BeerDeCoded + Bience

• WHEN? OpenHackuarium #?
• WHO? Gianpaolo+Romain
• WHAT? Update on both projects

Point 4bis: Other Events

Science Hackathon

Luc H. (3min)

• WHEN? Beginning of 18-20th November
• WHO? Luc, together with a team of people from outside Hackuarium
• WHAT? With this Science Hackathon event, we want to bring together scientists (as well as non-scientists) from western Switzerland (and beyond) over the course of three days, to foster collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas and generate solutions to research problems, both in experimental design and tools.

More information here

LoRa Wireless Workshop

• WHEN? 20/21 August
• WHO? Sam, ...

details following

Balloon Launch Party

• WHEN? September
• WHO? Sam, ...

details following

Diverse

Lockers

OK to give away keys until there are none left.

Business Cards

Anne-Laure (3 min)

What is the progress here?