Friday 26 November
Present: Stella Kin, Louise Anton, Bryan McCulloch, Rachel Nichol
Next meeting: Monday 29 November, 12pm Butchart
1. Discussion of research
Discussion of whether to improve manufacturing processes to increase biomass yield (flashing LEDs, nitrogen supply, etc) or oil yield (extraction process, electromagnetic ultrasound wave), or to invest money into genetic engineering (using oil-secreting diatoms). It was felt that cutting and pasting a number of improvements together would make it quite difficult to sell at the presentation, because of the variety of algae types that have been used, and this would also make procjecting yields very difficult. The best options are to either research into one area of improvement for one type of algae, or to research a particular algae that can be genetically engineered to improve yield. The consensus in the meeting was to opt for the latter and that further reading should be done into oil secreting diatoms.
Oliver suggested looking into government subsidies but Bryan has found none as of yet.
2. Discussion of presentation
Each team member will present their own section of research. The research should be distilled into a few sentences, bullet points and images that can be included in the slides. Recommended no more than 2 slides and 2 minutes per person.
3 Any other business
Team will meet on Monday at Butchart to compare research into diatoms and GM, and start to put slides together.
Actions
1. All team members to research on oil secreting diatoms and post links and paper on the blog
2. All to prepare their research so far to put into slides
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