Meeting+with+Kathy+12-3-12

This meeting was actually a phone call.

Here are some of the subjects I planned to discuss.

Okay great. Here are some of the topics I'll try to bring up.

-Mouse tumor sequence analysis and PCR results. I might be able to put some of this on the poster I need to have finished by Monday or Tuesday to print for the conference on Thursday. -dissertation outline

Ch 1. Random sequence mimotopes capture immune-specific antibodies and predict epitope motifs Ch 2. High throughput screening of tumor cDNA libraries Ch 3 Age Associated Stem Cell Autoimmunity Ch 4 Entropy and Immunosignature Ch 5 Motif Peptide Analysis Ch 6 Automatic Array Alignment Rough description of chapters 12-3-12

-committee meeting powerpoint outline

Outline of dissertation Description of main project in progress Progress of project the last time we met New progress Next steps Outline of dissertation Brief summary of other sections

-briefly update you on CTL assay, phage library, and human tumor cDNA library -SMC paper

Here are some of the things that were decided. With the tumor sequence analysis she would like to see the results repeated and further verified. With the CTL assay she was okay with me trying to read a plate out at Mayo. She put the SMC paper on hold to write a grant, but she will be done with the grant tomorrow. She was okay with me including the unfinished projects in my dissertation, but she thought they could be included in the other chapters. Here's kind of what she was imagining

Ch 1. Random sequence mimotopes capture immune-specific antibodies and predict epitope motifs Ch 2. Motif Peptide Analysis and Automatic Array Alignment (this could have a different name) Ch 3. High throughput screening of tumor cDNA Libraries Ch 4. Age associated stem cell autoimmunity as well as entropy and immunosignature (this would have a different name)

She thinks a good title could be something like: "Exploring immune responses associated with cancer and aging"