Agenda of the Board Meeting

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

Composition

Chair

Luc as president

Present

Sam
Anna
Gianpaolo
Yann
Anne-Laure

Excused

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.

P1 implementation

Update from Yann P. (5min)

Cost estimations for running the lab
Setup - new instruments coming in soon
Operation Wipe Out - Sat 18th June see here
New room plan needed - communicate it to Jean-Pierre
Course registration for biosafety officer: anyone interested follow this link

BeerDeCoded

Update from Gianpaolo (5min)

All wet lab work is done
All samples at the UNIL sequencing facility (bactria, fungi)
Quality control done, and ok
Roadmap available on Trello https://trello.com/b/NyG1Z7A7/beerdecoded-execution
Documentation - update the wiki (list of beers, budget, short project description to be published, F1000, etc.) and plan the next steps
hire a data viz person? job platform EPFL

SwissDeCode is officially accepted to the MC plans!

Living Instruments

Update from Luc (5min)

Living instrument will be featured as part of a contemporary music summer school, the 48th International Summer Course for New Music will take place in Darmstadt from 29 July to 14 August 2016.

Serge also submitted a funding application to carry on the work in London, in collaboration with UCL researchers and local artists.

More to come hopefully.

Octanis

Update from Sam (5min)
Tasks now on: https://waffle.io/Octanis1/Octanis1-Electronics (if you want to contribute)
August -> rover goes to Antarctica (via French Institut Paul Emil Victor)
Plan to scan landscape in a grid and build a model of the environment
Summer spent on developing software for the instrument
Updated documentation for clarity
50% intern on Octanis project (50% on Gustavo's project)

Other projects

Protein purification system (Yann will slowly work on that)
Water analysis people work hard and fast. Looking for collaboration with local authorities and institutions.
Owl monitoring device (tentative title) -> make the first day an event, start a wiki..

Point 2: Funding Applications

H2020

The European Commission has opened a call for projects involving Science Shops. More information in this document. The original call can be found here.

Hackuarium could be a potential candidate if we can build strong partnership with UNIL and EPFL. Luc is working on it and has a meeting in Bern with Euresearch to discuss details on Monday 13th, but if anyone is interested in helping, please come forward. It will be a lot of work.

Genewiz

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

Disclosure here.

Joint Outreach with SIB

Hackuarium as possible partner of a next SNF Agora application centred on air metagenomics --> sampling air with Octanis meteo baloons?

Possibility to do a night at Hackuarium about current Agora project on drug design

Gianpaolo will start a conversation with them

News from the Slovenian train?

No news since April 1st. Luc just sent an email to Maja Sande (from http://kersnikova.org) to see if there is any update available. Initial contact was from Kristijan Tkalec (http://biotehna.org).

Others?

Luc has a list here, and will start writing emails as soon as Friday 10th of June if the board give a green light for all items.

Point 3: Future partnerships

Mike Horn pole2pole?

Gianpaolo and Luc have been in touch with Mike Horn PR people.

More details to be added.

BSNL

Gianpaolo suggested to ask BNSL if they are interested in organising their events at UniverCité.

If ok for everyone, Luc will put them in touch with Juliette and maybe Anne-Laure can coordinate when Hackuarium should be involved.

Contact Gabriela Ecco? : <gabriela.ecco@epfl.ch>

Point 4: Finance

Some details about finance

Web addresses

Point 5: Upcoming OpenHackuarium nights

It is important that we announce events and stick to the plan. We already discussed the issue at the last board meeting and little has been done.

Already planned

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

Gianpaolo (3 min)

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

DIYbio at Uni Geneva

Luc (3 min)

Bruno Strasser and his team have an ERC grant to study DIYbiology. They will come and present their projects (2-3).

We will also discuss the opportunity to co-organise the DIYbio EU annual meeting sometime in the winter together.

Point 4bis: Other Events

Design Days

Save the date! [www.designdays.ch Design Days] will take place on 29th September - 2nd October.

Patricia Lunghi who organises the event reached out to Luc to insist that Hackuarium should really be there at the next Design Days event.

Do we have projects that would fit in there? Can we think of 2-3 small projects to prepare over the summer and present?

Living Instruments could be one.

Open Access Week

After a successful event in 2014, it would be great to invest time again into planning one this year.

I know this is a topic mostly interesting to scientists, but maybe it is time for citizens to see the potential as well.

Not much information yet on the website of the organisation.

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, ...