Fall+2011+Committee+Meeting


 * Bertram Jacobs Basic Schedule
 * May be gone from December 6th
 * 1st-11th of November may be good for him
 * He has lab meetings Wednesday afternoons
 * He often has phone meetings early in the morning
 * Stephen availability
 * of Nov. 7th, 8th, and 10th Stephen is . ..
 * Only Nov. 8th is a possibility anytime except 2-3pm. He is booked or out of town on the other days.
 * Phil said to send him an outlook invitation and he'll add it to his calendar
 * Valierie is free until 3:30
 * Kathy just teaches from 9-11am that day and is free the rest of the time.

I reserved room A204 on November 8th from 1-3pm.

Here is the Quad Chart I sent out the day beforehand. I should have sent this out earlier (about a week before).



Presentation

Comments and notes after meeting
 * My thoughts
 * I should try to obtain another phage library vector.
 * The SMC1fs lysate work looks good.
 * There were times during the presentation when I felt that I was thinking about whether I was presenting well or what the audience was thinking of me rather than focusing on what I should have been focusing on which is to make an interesting and informative presentation that the audience can enjoy.
 * **I should have explained the basic experiment I want to do with age associated stem cell autoimmunity better. I want to take effector cells from old mice and young mice and see if the effector cells from old mice recognize hematopoietic stem cells better**
 * **I really should have explained one particular figure better (the figure in which they transfer old cells or young cells into old or young mice). I need to understand what the delta marker is better. Also in general, whenever there is a figure in which several conditions are mixed or alternated, I should make sure that this really makes sense to me and maybe plan out what I want to say clearly.**
 * Stephen
 * Stephen would rather pursue more of a direct antibody approach rather than focusing too much on the phage.
 * Jacobs
 * He mentioned that he performed LDH assays in which cytoplasm protein was released from the cells.
 * Jacobs mentioned an interesting and simple way of testing the age associated autoimmunity hypothesis. He said why not just vaccinate the mice against telomerase, wound them, and see if there is a difference compared to the controls.

Supervisory Committee Meeting Record