[BBF Standards] BioHackathon, or Characterization Challenge

[Mackenzie Cowell]

I theoretically agree with Bryan's comment. However, I also agree with John
and Jason that in practice there would be significant overhead for bringing
non-native lab members up to speed on all the little details of how to
accomplish something in the host lab, and that more time might even be spent
on explaining the lab's logistics to the visiting experimenters (where is
the agar?  where are the antibiotics?  where are the small falcon tubes?
 wait, you don't use falcon tubes? etc.).  Perhaps it would be possible
to accommodate a few visitors with lots of preparation and organization by a
sort of experimental coordinator beforehand, but let's not try and tackle
that problem this time.
Instead, I envision:

* continuing the discussion on this list, solidifying organizational issues
and an overview of what we would like to accomplish with the community
gardening / barnraising party.
** augmenting the discussion with a conference call between interested labs
to nail down the specifics
* picking a date,
* identifying point people in each lab who will organize the event locally
and be responsible for setting up teleconference equipment (i.e. a group
skype chat with speakers, ichat video, etc.)
* DOING A TEST RUN
* linking up all the participating labs on the chosen date and producing
some quality characterization data and / improving the categorization and
documentation of existing and new parts in the registry.

I also very much support the idea of bringing iGEM teams in on this.

mac

On Feb 10, 2008 11:38 AM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 10 February 2008, John Cumbers wrote:
> > Yes I agree, I was thinking about it and it just complicates it to
> > have a lab host it, we just need to decide on what we're doing and
> > then each lab can do it at the same time, e.g same weekend and
> > publish results on-line. I'm open to suggestions, Vincent which
> > promoter do you want to start with :) cheers,
>
> Although I am not against having many labs working on the same problem
> at the same time, separating them all to their usual labs and routines
> significantly reduces the buzz, and this buzz is something valuable.
>
> - Bryan
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Mac Cowell
iGEM Coordinator
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