Team:Greensboro-Austin/Team

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North Carolina A&T and The University of Texas at Austin formed a joint team this year as an inter-university collaboration through BEACON[http://beacon-center.org/].
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NC A&T and UT-Austin are part of BEACON, an NSF center that studies evolution. Our universities teamed up in order to combine the principles of synthetic biology and evolution in our projects, and to lay the foundation for an independent NC A&T iGEM team for next year's competition.
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Throughout the course of the spring and summer, our team has been pleased to work with the IGEM team at NCA&T University. Our goal has been to help guide NCA&T through the competition. By maintaining communication, we were able to explain some of the technicalities of the IGEM competition and provide advice on how to recruit team members, brainstorm project ideas, effectively develop and manage projects, maintain reasonable project timelines, make a wiki, etc.
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In June, four team members from UT-Austin visted NC A&T for a week to present a series of molecular biology workshops. Each day’s workshop would start with a “dry-lab” component such as generating project ideas, experimental design, and computational tools for synthetic biology. This was followed by a “wet-lab” application, such as transformation, PCR, and cloning. In July, five members of the NC A&T team visited Austin for another series of workshops. These activities focused on how the Austin team applied the techniques covered earlier for the MAPs and ''p''-cresol degradation projects. More advanced techniques were demonstrated, such as advanced primer design for plasmid assembly, and the use of non-canonical amino acids for protein engineering.
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During the summer, a few of our team members were fortunate enough to visit NCA&T. Workshops were held to teach NCA&T lab techniques such as PCR, sterile technique, gel electrophoresis, gel extraction, and plating technique. Other workshops included Geneious tutorials and research techniques. We were glad that NCA&T members were able to visit the UT campus as well. We held various workshops and showed them around our lab. One of the most important aspects of their visit was that they were able to see our team stucture and the way we function.
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NCA&T now has the insight they need to create a solid team for next year’s IGEM competition. Working together has been a rewarding experience for the UT/NCA&T IGEM team and we are glad to say we now have friends in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Revision as of 00:15, 27 September 2013



Who we are

UT Austin

Advisors:

  • Dr. Jeff Barrick: Supreme Leader
  • Mike Hammerling: The Instigator
  • Neil Gottel: The Tall One
  • Andre Maranhão: The Crazy One

Undergrads:

  • Kate Mortensen: The Clumsy One
  • Marco Howard: The Rockstar
  • Yousef Okasheh: Afro Man
  • Evan Weaver: iGEM 007
  • Siddharth Das: The Bearcat
  • Areen Pitaktong: Bac Man Ninja
  • Jordan Monk: Smells Like p-Cresol
  • Ben Slater: The Sensei
  • Larry Huang: Sleeper Agent
  • Razan Alnahhas

NC A&T

Advisors:


Undergrads:


Michael Hammerling; Ph.D candidate in Cell and Molecular Biology

Neil Gottel; 2nd year graduate student in Microbiology

Kate Mortensen; Undergraduate; Biochemistry Major

Yousef Okasheh; Undergraduate; Biochemistry Major

Marco Valencia; Undergraduate; Chemistry Major

Razan Alnahhas: Undergraduate; Microbiology Major

Ben Slater; Undergraduate; Cellular and Molecular Biology

Jordan Monk; Undergraduate; Biochemistry Major

Evan Weaver; Undergraduate; Cell and Molecular Biology Major

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Collaboration between North Carolina A&T and The University of Texas at Austin

NC A&T and UT-Austin are part of BEACON, an NSF center that studies evolution. Our universities teamed up in order to combine the principles of synthetic biology and evolution in our projects, and to lay the foundation for an independent NC A&T iGEM team for next year's competition.

In June, four team members from UT-Austin visted NC A&T for a week to present a series of molecular biology workshops. Each day’s workshop would start with a “dry-lab” component such as generating project ideas, experimental design, and computational tools for synthetic biology. This was followed by a “wet-lab” application, such as transformation, PCR, and cloning. In July, five members of the NC A&T team visited Austin for another series of workshops. These activities focused on how the Austin team applied the techniques covered earlier for the MAPs and p-cresol degradation projects. More advanced techniques were demonstrated, such as advanced primer design for plasmid assembly, and the use of non-canonical amino acids for protein engineering.

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