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       <h1 class="title">UC Davis Collaboration</h1>
 
       <h1 class="title">UC Davis Collaboration</h1>
 
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         UC Davis iGEM team is one of the winners of Opentron competition in 2019, where as prize Opentron gave out OT-2 pipetting robots to ten iGEM teams,
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         UC Davis iGEM team is one of the winners of Opentron competition in 2019, where as prize Opentron gave out OT-2 pipetting robots to ten iGEM
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         whose applications are the most convincing. iGEM Marburg won one OT-2 during last year’s edition of the competition and got contacted for
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         teams, whose applications are the most convincing. iGEM Marburg won one OT-2 during last year’s edition of the competition and got contacted
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         collaboration by iGEM UC Davis along with other said competition winners from 2018 and 2019.
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         for collaboration by iGEM UC Davis along with other said competition winners from 2018 and 2019.
 
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         The goal for this inter-lab collaboration is to collect data and determine the accuracy of the OT-2 compared to humans. To do this, UC Davis conceived
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         The goal for this inter-lab collaboration is to collect data and determine the accuracy of the OT-2 compared to humans. To do this, UC Davis
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         a protocol to perform serial dilutions of silica beads and fluorescence both manually and with OT-2. In total iGEM Marburg did four dilutions; twice
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         conceived a protocol to perform serial dilutions of silica beads and fluorescence both manually and with OT-2. In total iGEM Marburg did four
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        with OT-2 and twice manually. The data is then sent to UC Davis via the spreadsheet designed by them. Finally iGEM Marburg made a Slack channel for
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        dilutions; twice with OT-2 and twice manually. The data is then sent to UC Davis via the spreadsheet designed by them. Finally iGEM Marburg
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        all iGEM teams with OT-2 to be in contact with one another; further increasing exchange and collaboration. More information about this collaboration
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        made a Slack channel for all iGEM teams with OT-2 to be in contact with one another; further increasing exchange and collaboration. More
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        can be found on UC Davis wiki.
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        information about this collaboration can be found on UC Davis wiki.
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      <h1 class="title">Biohackathon Lab App 2019</h1>
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      <h2 class="subtitle">Vilnius, Lithuania</h2>
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        In August 2019 our Team participated in the Biohackathon Lab App, organized by the Vilnius-Lithuania Team 2019. Together with the iGEM Teams
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        Stockholm and Copenhagen, as well as several non-iGEM Teams we sat together for a weekend packed with problems, ideas and neat solutions.
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        With the task of creating an Application that tackles a self-found problem, we sat together and brainstormed about what could be done.
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        During this time we were in the middle of our works with the Opentrons OT-2 and soon realized that some of our biologists had trouble
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        integrating protocols in the robot themselves, as this is primarily done by writing the protocol in Python and pushing it directly to the
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        robot – no convenient application to change parameters, such as the amount of reactions, of the protocol included. In our heads the idea to
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        have a user-friendly GUI grew more and more and soon we saw ourselves standing in the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center.
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        “We” were two biologists and one mathematician, so we talked to some of the other participants that did not have a team yet and found the
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        perfect fit to complement our small team: Nour Alsamsam was happy to join us for this weekend and lend us his coding skills – huge thank you
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        to you, Nour!
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        Together we tried our best to come up with a suitable app and presented it in the end, having more ideas in our heads than we could implement
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        in such a short time – it was clear for us, that we would continue with this project later on!
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        In conclusion, the Biohackathon was an awesome and productive meeting of the iGEM Teams Stockholm, Copenhagen, Vilnius and Marburg. We talked
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        about our projects, offered each other feedback on current issues in the lab and shared many ideas.
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      <p>
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        We are very grateful that we got the opportunity to meet so many experts from different fields, which really helped getting a fresh
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        perspective on our project and are now looking forward to meet the other teams again at the Giant Jamboree!
 
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Revision as of 19:38, 25 August 2019

UC Davis Collaboration

UC Davis iGEM team is one of the winners of Opentron competition in 2019, where as prize Opentron gave out OT-2 pipetting robots to ten iGEM teams, whose applications are the most convincing. iGEM Marburg won one OT-2 during last year’s edition of the competition and got contacted for collaboration by iGEM UC Davis along with other said competition winners from 2018 and 2019.

The goal for this inter-lab collaboration is to collect data and determine the accuracy of the OT-2 compared to humans. To do this, UC Davis conceived a protocol to perform serial dilutions of silica beads and fluorescence both manually and with OT-2. In total iGEM Marburg did four dilutions; twice with OT-2 and twice manually. The data is then sent to UC Davis via the spreadsheet designed by them. Finally iGEM Marburg made a Slack channel for all iGEM teams with OT-2 to be in contact with one another; further increasing exchange and collaboration. More information about this collaboration can be found on UC Davis wiki.

Biohackathon Lab App 2019

Vilnius, Lithuania

In August 2019 our Team participated in the Biohackathon Lab App, organized by the Vilnius-Lithuania Team 2019. Together with the iGEM Teams Stockholm and Copenhagen, as well as several non-iGEM Teams we sat together for a weekend packed with problems, ideas and neat solutions.

With the task of creating an Application that tackles a self-found problem, we sat together and brainstormed about what could be done.

During this time we were in the middle of our works with the Opentrons OT-2 and soon realized that some of our biologists had trouble integrating protocols in the robot themselves, as this is primarily done by writing the protocol in Python and pushing it directly to the robot – no convenient application to change parameters, such as the amount of reactions, of the protocol included. In our heads the idea to have a user-friendly GUI grew more and more and soon we saw ourselves standing in the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center.

“We” were two biologists and one mathematician, so we talked to some of the other participants that did not have a team yet and found the perfect fit to complement our small team: Nour Alsamsam was happy to join us for this weekend and lend us his coding skills – huge thank you to you, Nour!

Together we tried our best to come up with a suitable app and presented it in the end, having more ideas in our heads than we could implement in such a short time – it was clear for us, that we would continue with this project later on!

In conclusion, the Biohackathon was an awesome and productive meeting of the iGEM Teams Stockholm, Copenhagen, Vilnius and Marburg. We talked about our projects, offered each other feedback on current issues in the lab and shared many ideas.

We are very grateful that we got the opportunity to meet so many experts from different fields, which really helped getting a fresh perspective on our project and are now looking forward to meet the other teams again at the Giant Jamboree!