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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 Example2 Team member 9.png Team member 9

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

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/].

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.

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.

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.