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<h2><center><b><font face="arial" size = "5">UCSF is a graduate institution - so where do UCSF iGEM team members come from?</h2></font></b></center> <p>
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<h3red>Biotechnology Program and Abraham Lincoln High School (ALHS)</h3red> <p>
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The ALHS Biotechnology Program is a two year pathway developed by George Cachianes and co-taught by Julie Reis: <span class="classoranget"><a href="http://www.lincolnhigh.net/academy/biotech/overview">Lincoln High Biotech Webpage </a><span>
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The curriculum during the program can be broken down as follows <br><p><regulartext>
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First Year: Introduction to biotechnology, DNA cloning, and the industry and career opportunities <p><regulartext>
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Second Year: Students study and perform several lab protocols including running polyacrylamide and agarose gels, western blots, DNA minipreps, column chromatography, etc. <p><regulartext>
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This year 5 members of the UCSF iGEM team were chosen from students that have completed this 2 year class. Read more about Nate, Helena, Louis, Verna, and Kendall at the team members page! </regulartext></p>
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<h3red>City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and the Gladstone Scholars Program</h3red> <p>
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<regulartext> This year, to try and expand our team applications were accepted from local community college students. If you are from the SF Bay Area and are interested in participating next year, contact our coordinator Veronica Zepeda!
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This summer our team was joined by Yesenia Lopez, who currently attends <span class="classoranget"><a href="http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/">City College of San Francisco </a><span> and was a previous participant in the <span class="classoranget"><a href="http://gladstoneinstitutes.org/connect/outreach/high-school">Gladstone Scholars Intern Program.  </a><span></regulartext>
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<h3red>Peking University and UCSF iGEM Exchange</h3red> <p>
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<regulartext>We initiated an exchange program wherein UCSF funds a trip for a student to do research at a lab at Peking University for one summer, and Peking University sends a student to UCSF for the same purpose. This summer of 2012, we had a student from Peking University named Jingyi Xi help us with our modeling portion of our project. We also sent a former UCSF iGem member, Tina Chen, to Peking University to participate on their iGEM team. </regulartext>
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<h3red>Motivation for the UCSF iGEM 2012 Project</h3red> <p>
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Our motivation for this year’s project was based around being able to engineer/modify organisms so that they could exist in symbiosis and work together to produce a compound. Being able to do this would, hypothetically, allow a decrease in metabolic burden towards a single compound-producing organism, eliminate the need for negative feedback, and enable modular pathways to be possible. If a successful method for doing this was discovered, it would for example, revolutionize the way industry produces expensive drugs and molecular products.</regulartext>
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<h2><FONT COLOR="#008000">Biotechnology Program at Abraham Lincoln High School (ALHS)</h2></FONT COLOR="#008000"> <p>
 
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The ALHS Biotechnology Program is a two year pathway developed by George Cachianes and co-taught by Julie Reis: <span class="classoranget"><a href="http://www.lincolnhigh.net/academy/biotech/overview">Lincoln High Biotech Webpage </a><span></h4>
 
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This year, five members of the UCSF iGEM team were chosen from students who have completed this two-year class. Read more about David, Derrick, Eric, Sherry and Felicity at the <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:UCSF/Team"> team members page</a>! </regulartext></p></h4>
 
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<h2><FONT COLOR="#008000">Peking University and UCSF iGEM Exchange</h2> </FONT COLOR="#008000"><p>
 
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<h4>Through funding from QB3 and the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, we have established an exchange program with Peking University. For the past few years, we have welcomed an undergraduate student from PKU to join our team and vice versa. This summer, we had a student from the 2011 PKU iGEM team, JI Weiyue, join us for three months to work with as a part of our team. We also had a former UCSF iGEM member, Helena Viets, travel to Peking University and join the PKU iGEM team. </h4>
 
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<h2><FONT COLOR="#008000">Returning Team Members</h2> </FONT COLOR="#008000"><p>
 
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<h4>This year we had two students from our 2012 team join us for a second year. Kendall Kearns and Verna Huang both attended ALHS and just finished their freshman year at UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara, respectively. </h4>
 
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<h2><FONT COLOR="#008000">UC Berkeley Cal Teach Program</h2> </FONT COLOR="#008000"><p>
 
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<h4>Priyanka Dadlani is a member of the Cal Teach program at UC Berkeley and joined us for 10 weeks this summer and worked on computational models to provide predictions that would guide our experimental strategy. To read more about Calteach, <a href="http://calteach.berkeley.edu/">visit the Cal Teach Webpage </a><span> </h4>
 
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<h4>Ian Ergui joined us this summer as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP). This program seeks to link students from disadvantaged backgrounds and students from groups that are underrepresented in the sciences to HHMI investigators from across the country. Students are given the opportunity to conduct research and live at an institution other than their home institution in order to experience science in a new academic setting. </h4>
 
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