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Collaborations

ARCHAEAL COLLABORATION STUDY: HOW WE DID IT

STEP ONE: THE IDEA

We were interested in signing up for the E. Coli. collaboration study earlier this year, but were disappoint to learn that our archaeal study could not contribute to the Interlab’s framework. This led to our idea to create a new InterLab study of our own utilizing our labs methanococcus mCherry stocks.

STEP TWO: INITIAL PROPOSAL

Since early 2015, the University of Georgia iGEM team has been working on establishing a sound, effective, and universal protocol and logistics system to circulate mCherry samples on a largescale circuit for fluorescence measurements. We decided to contact iGEM headquarters officially early June 2015 with a formal proposal to motion for a new Archaeal InterLab study modeled after the current E. coli InterLab administered by iGEM. We suggested that we send out our own collection of mCherry protein extracts from our methanococcus experiments. iGEM Headquarters and the Measurement Division advised us to pursue a sort of ‘pilot’ InterLab, which we began calling the Archaeal Collaboration Study.

STEP 3: PREPERATION

After a few weeks of carefully refining our proposal, gaining proper clearance from the biosafety office, developing the shipment system, creating registration and data input forms, and creating a universal protocol for measuring mCherry protein florescence, we were ready to contact an assortment of iGEM research teams across the United States gauging general interest in our collaboration study.

STEP 4: GAUGE INTEREST

An assortment of teams across the United States were contacted with our proposal and an invitation to join the collaboration effort. We were truly inspired by the level of interest we received from the feedback and began to slowly build up the network of participating teams we have today. Slowly but surely, we built up a network of 9 participating teams: University of Georgia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stony Brook University, University of California at San Francisco, Carnegie Mellon University, College of William & Mary, Genspace, Columbia University, and Vanderbilt University. We can’t thank our participating teams enough for their support and efforts toward our study.

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+<h1 align=center>ARCHAEAL COLLABORATION STUDY: HOW WE DID IT</h1>
+<h2>STEP ONE: THE IDEA</h2>
+<p><font size=4>We were interested in signing up for the <i>E. Coli.</i> collaboration study earlier this year, but were disappoint to learn that our archaeal study could not contribute to the Interlab’s framework. This led to our idea to create a new InterLab study of our own utilizing our labs <i>methanococcus</i> mCherry stocks.  </p></font>
+<h2>STEP TWO: INITIAL PROPOSAL</h2>
+<p><font size=4>Since early 2015, the University of Georgia iGEM team has been working on establishing a sound, effective, and universal protocol and logistics system to circulate mCherry samples on a largescale circuit for fluorescence measurements. We decided to contact iGEM headquarters officially early June 2015 with a formal proposal to motion for a new Archaeal InterLab study modeled after the current <i>E. coli</i> InterLab administered by iGEM. We suggested that we send out our own collection of mCherry protein extracts from our <i>methanococcus</i> experiments. iGEM Headquarters and the Measurement Division advised us to pursue a sort of ‘pilot’ InterLab, which we began calling the Archaeal Collaboration Study. </p></font>
+<h2>STEP 3: PREPERATION</h2>
+<p><font size=4>After a few weeks of carefully refining our proposal, gaining proper clearance from the biosafety office, developing the shipment system, creating <a href=”https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1duRfDQfkohTDbBr4TgEVVs1hUMyFYOzlwn92GEb9ADE/viewform”> registration </a>and <a href=”https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JT0H_hDfskoX3UWrpm6-t-uk4rC_iGi6JcEIAJ5Jpj0/viewform”> data input </a> forms, and creating a universal <a href=”https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2015/a/ae/UGA-Georgia_Collaboration_Protocol.pdf”> protocol </a>for measuring mCherry protein florescence, we were ready to contact an assortment of iGEM research teams across the United States gauging general interest in our collaboration study. </p></font>
+<h2>STEP 4: GAUGE INTEREST</h2>
+<p><font size=4>An assortment of teams across the United States were contacted with our <a href=”https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2015/3/34/UGA-Georgia_Collaboration_Proposal.pdf”> proposal </a>and an invitation to join the collaboration effort. We were truly inspired by the level of interest we received from the feedback and began to slowly build up the network of participating teams we have today. Slowly but surely, we built up a network of 9 participating teams: University of Georgia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stony Brook University, University of California at San Francisco, Carnegie Mellon University, College of William & Mary, Genspace, Columbia University, and Vanderbilt University. We can’t thank our participating teams enough for their support and efforts toward our study. </p></font>
 <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2015/4/44/UGA-Georgia_Interlab_After_ESD.jpeg" align="center" width="700px";height"240px">