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<p><b> To fulfill the gold medal requirement, the UT Austin team mentored the first year Texas Tech team.</b> The Texas Tech Collaboration page can be found <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Lubbock_TTU/Collaborations">here.</a>
 
<p><b> To fulfill the gold medal requirement, the UT Austin team mentored the first year Texas Tech team.</b> The Texas Tech Collaboration page can be found <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Lubbock_TTU/Collaborations">here.</a>
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<p>In the spirit of the collaborative scientific method, the UT Austin team reached out to several other teams. Through this outreach with the iGEM teams of Texas, we began working with the Texas Tech team. Because this was Texas Tech's first year competing, their team had many questions and concerns about the competition that were brought up when plans for collusion between the two teams were discussed. <p>
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<p>In the collaborative spirit of the scientific method, the UT Austin iGEM team reached out to several other teams. Through this outreach to the iGEM teams of Texas, we began working with the Texas Tech team. As a new iGEM team participating in the competition for the first time, Texas Tech had several questions about the competition that we attempted to answer. <p>
 
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<p>Over the course of three months, the Tech team has visited Austin three times. The first, was a meeting between two leader representatives where both team's projects were discussed. Tech was to prove that the gellan gum plates project by Jenna McGuffey could be reproduced. UT was to prove an assay made by Tech could be reproduced. Many questions were fielded by the UT representative, such as what terms in iGEM meant and what were the classification for iGEM medals. Therefore, contacts were exchanged so that any further questions provided by the first-year team could be answered, as well as for future correspondence regarding the reproducibility of each teams projects. The second meetup was when a representative from the Tech team visited Austin for the safe and legal exchange fluorescent bacteria from UT to Tech for a workshop that Tech would be giving. During this meeting more questions were answered. At the third meetup occurring at the symposium, the sphingomonas needed to make gellan gum plates were given to Tech, and questions were again fielded regarding deadlines, trip details, medal determinants, and wiki requirements. While UT did not receive an assay from Tech, UT did collaborate with this first year team and aided in the team’s end goal of being a competitive team at the iGEM Jamboree. </p>
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<p> Over the course of three months, the Tech team has visited Austin three times. After the decision to collaborate, an initial meeting took place between two leader representatives to discuss the teams’ projects. Brandon Palomo of Texas Tech agreed to attempt to replicate Jenna McGuffey’s results with gellan gum plates, and Katelyn Corley of UT agreed to reproduce the results of an assay made by Tech. Corley answered many of Tech’s questions regarding language in the iGEM rules and classification for iGEM medals. Corley and Palomo exchanged contact information so the teams could continue to collaborate electronically. In the second meeting, Marilyn Mathew of Texas Tech visited Austin to pick up fluorescent bacteria Tech wished to use for a public workshop for community awareness of synthetic biology. The teams met for a third time at the Texas iGEM meetup at the University of Texas Undergraduate Research Symposium. During the third meetup, we provided Texas Tech with the <i>Sphingomonas paucimobilis</i> bacteria required to make gellan gum plates and answered additional questions about the competition, deadlins, trip details, and medal and wiki requirements. While our team has not yet received the assay Texas Tech initially asked us to test, we provided the team with mentorship that should help them be competitive in their first iGEM jamboree. Texas Tech in turn helped our team by testing McGuffey’s protocol for creating gellan gum plates with <i>S. paucimobilis.</i>
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<p>Furthermore, the Tech team has proven a project that Jenna McGuffey, a member of the iGEM team is working on: gellan gum plates made from sphingamonas.
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<p>A Texas iGEM meetup was conducted at the University of Texas Natural Research Symposium. Representatives from both Texas Tech and Rice Universities exhibited their research and discussed the results of their current experiments. Separate from the symposium, together, each of the three teams after the initial presentation of their research, shared their current iGEM results. During this collaborative discussion, the teams critiqued each other's project and gave opinions on what could benefit their project. This meetup came to fruition via communications over email, phone, and Facebook. Multiple members of each team worked together to reach out to the other team so that this final meeting could be possible. </p><br><br><br><br><br><br>
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<p> On Saturday, September 24th, 2016, at the University of Texas Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium, iGEM teams from Rice University, Texas Tech University, and the University of Texas met to discuss their projects and exchange feedback and advice for the competition. During this collaborative discussion, the teams critiqued each other’s projects. Multiple members of each team organized the meetup via email, phone, and Facebook. Teams enjoyed an early opportunity to discuss their projects with other students enthusiastic about synthetic biology. </p><br><br><br><br><br><br>
 
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<p>The team out of Monterrey, Mexico also reached out to the UT Austin team, being their closest neighbor. UT Austin helped the Monterrey team in trouble-shooting conjugation</p>
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<p>The iGEM team from Monterrey, Mexico also reached out to our team as their closest iGEM neighbor. UT Austin helped the Monterrey team troubleshoot their conjugation procedure.</p>
 
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Revision as of 23:57, 17 October 2016

Austin_UTexas

Collaborations


These are the gellan gum plates that Tech made in lab by following the protocol created by Jenna McGuffey.

Texas Tech Collaboration

To fulfill the gold medal requirement, the UT Austin team mentored the first year Texas Tech team. The Texas Tech Collaboration page can be found here.

In the collaborative spirit of the scientific method, the UT Austin iGEM team reached out to several other teams. Through this outreach to the iGEM teams of Texas, we began working with the Texas Tech team. As a new iGEM team participating in the competition for the first time, Texas Tech had several questions about the competition that we attempted to answer.

Team member Zach Martinez of UT and Marilyn of Tech taking a photo after UT Austin gave Tech fluorescent bacteria.

Over the course of three months, the Tech team has visited Austin three times. After the decision to collaborate, an initial meeting took place between two leader representatives to discuss the teams’ projects. Brandon Palomo of Texas Tech agreed to attempt to replicate Jenna McGuffey’s results with gellan gum plates, and Katelyn Corley of UT agreed to reproduce the results of an assay made by Tech. Corley answered many of Tech’s questions regarding language in the iGEM rules and classification for iGEM medals. Corley and Palomo exchanged contact information so the teams could continue to collaborate electronically. In the second meeting, Marilyn Mathew of Texas Tech visited Austin to pick up fluorescent bacteria Tech wished to use for a public workshop for community awareness of synthetic biology. The teams met for a third time at the Texas iGEM meetup at the University of Texas Undergraduate Research Symposium. During the third meetup, we provided Texas Tech with the Sphingomonas paucimobilis bacteria required to make gellan gum plates and answered additional questions about the competition, deadlins, trip details, and medal and wiki requirements. While our team has not yet received the assay Texas Tech initially asked us to test, we provided the team with mentorship that should help them be competitive in their first iGEM jamboree. Texas Tech in turn helped our team by testing McGuffey’s protocol for creating gellan gum plates with S. paucimobilis.




Texas iGEM Meet Up

The Tech, Rice, and UT iGEM teams after the Texas Meet up was held.

On Saturday, September 24th, 2016, at the University of Texas Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium, iGEM teams from Rice University, Texas Tech University, and the University of Texas met to discuss their projects and exchange feedback and advice for the competition. During this collaborative discussion, the teams critiqued each other’s projects. Multiple members of each team organized the meetup via email, phone, and Facebook. Teams enjoyed an early opportunity to discuss their projects with other students enthusiastic about synthetic biology.









Monterrey Collaboration

A skype phone-call between UT Austin and Monterrey where UT helped the Monterrey team with their conjugation protocol.

The iGEM team from Monterrey, Mexico also reached out to our team as their closest iGEM neighbor. UT Austin helped the Monterrey team troubleshoot their conjugation procedure.