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<p>In order to strengthen our partnership with Texas Tech we arranged to have two of their members, as well as two students from Austin’s Liberal Arts and Science Academy, attend the Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted by UT’s Molecular Biosciences Student Association. Here, we discussed our projects and helped each try to achieve various medal requirements. This was the third year we hosted Texas Tech and we hope to continue this tradition for the foreseeable future.</p> | <p>In order to strengthen our partnership with Texas Tech we arranged to have two of their members, as well as two students from Austin’s Liberal Arts and Science Academy, attend the Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted by UT’s Molecular Biosciences Student Association. Here, we discussed our projects and helped each try to achieve various medal requirements. This was the third year we hosted Texas Tech and we hope to continue this tradition for the foreseeable future.</p> | ||
| − | <p>Our relationship this year could be best described as a metallically beneficial mentorship. Primarily, we helped Texas Tech | + | <p>Our relationship this year could be best described as a metallically beneficial mentorship. Primarily, we helped Texas Tech overhaul their methods for plasmid assembly from BioBrick Assembly to Golden Gate Assembly. We also introduced Texas Tech to Phytobricks and how they could help them in lab. These improvements helped Texas Tech speed up their assemblies and improve their overall efficiency in lab.</p> |
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Revision as of 01:05, 16 October 2018
Collaborations
Rice University Collaboration
The UT-Austin team reached out to the Rice team early in the Summer of 2018 to determine if our teams could help each other. We decided to meet to at the Rice campus and share our project ideas.
At the meet-up we presented our project ideas to each other, and discussed ways in which we could integrate the projects. Rice’s project revolved around modifying the T7 Expression system to be more broad host range which fit with our goal of creating a broad host range plasmid kit to easily and efficiently transform non-model organisms. They suggested they could benefit from using some of the promoter part plasmids we created to test transcription independent of translation.
We also gave them a one tube reaction with a protocol to test to act as a prototype of the complete kit. Once they transformed the one tube containing our assemblies into their organisms of interest, they could determine which origin of replication functioned and utilize that information.
Albert Truong, of the Rice 2018 iGEM Team, provided their results and feedback when transforming our assemblies into E. coli in their lab.
(See Integrated Human Practices)
Texas Tech University Collaboration
In order to strengthen our partnership with Texas Tech we arranged to have two of their members, as well as two students from Austin’s Liberal Arts and Science Academy, attend the Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted by UT’s Molecular Biosciences Student Association. Here, we discussed our projects and helped each try to achieve various medal requirements. This was the third year we hosted Texas Tech and we hope to continue this tradition for the foreseeable future.
Our relationship this year could be best described as a metallically beneficial mentorship. Primarily, we helped Texas Tech overhaul their methods for plasmid assembly from BioBrick Assembly to Golden Gate Assembly. We also introduced Texas Tech to Phytobricks and how they could help them in lab. These improvements helped Texas Tech speed up their assemblies and improve their overall efficiency in lab.