Team:Austin UTexas LASA/Collaborations
Collaborations
COLLABORATION WITH ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
The ASU team developed a cloning strategy to help our team assemble our multigene sensing plasmid. This included designing primers for each of our transcriptional units in order to do digests and ligations using Type 1 enzymes. The ASU team also sent us an aliquot of their lab’s pET28 to use as the backbone for the multigene sensing assembly. 
In return, our team helped out the ASU team by reading over their wiki and presentation.
COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
The UoWashington team gave us general advice concerning our project and proofread our wiki pages and presentation. The UoWashington team also helped us with our presentation; we held a skype session where we presented our presentation to them over skype and they critiqued it and gave us advice.
In return, our team helped them out with their survey on GMOs and bioethics.
COLLABORATION WITH HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS
We were part of a high school group chat over Twitter whose purpose was to serve as a forum where high school teams could exchange advice and help one another.
Silver Medal Criterion #2
Complete this page if you intend to compete for the silver medal criterion #2 on collaboration. Please see the 2017 Medals Page for more information.
Which other teams can we work with?
You can work with any other team in the competition, including software, hardware, high school and other tracks. You can also work with non-iGEM research groups, but they do not count towards the iGEM team collaboration silver medal criterion.
In order to meet the silver medal criteria on helping another team, you must complete this page and detail the nature of your collaboration with another iGEM team.
Here are some suggestions for projects you could work on with other teams:
- Improve the function of another team's BioBrick Part or Device
- Characterize another team's part
- Debug a construct
- Model or simulating another team's system
- Test another team's software
- Help build and test another team's hardware project
- Mentor a high-school team
