Who we are
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Advisors:
- Inst 1: Jean Peccoud
- Inst 2: Martha Eborall
- Grad 1: George McArthur
- Grad 2: Matt Lux
- Adv 1 : Daniel Tarjan
- Adv 2 : Erik Fernandez
- Adv 3 : Stephen Fong
- Adv 4 : Brian Sayre
- Adv 5 : Ryan Senger
- Adv 6 : Keith Kozminski
- Adv 7 : Jason Papin
- Adv 8 : Inchan Kwon
- Adv 9 : David Ball
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Undergrads:
- Student 1: Rohini Manaktala
- Student 2: Yong Wu
- Student 3: Megan Barron
- Student 4: Arjun Athreya
- Student 5: Austin Chamberlin
- Student 6: Sara Brickman
- Student 7: Adam Bower
- Student 8: Brett Tolliver
- Student 9: Daniel Chique
- Student 10: Dasha Nesterova
- Student 11: Jane Carter
- Student 12: Joe Edwards
- Student 13: Karis Childs
- Student 14: Priscilla Agyemang
- Student 15: Maria McClintock
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Where we're from
Virginia United is a regional team between Virginia Tech, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Bluefield State College, and Virginia State University. The team members spent their summer spread between labs at Virginia Tech, University of Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University working towards a common project.
Regional Team
The Virginia United Team was created as a collaborative effort between five schools, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Bluefield State College, and Virginia State University. We divided up and worked on separate parts of the project in three different locations in the state and maintained communication through constant emails, Skype calls, and face to face regional meetings. Collaborating on a project of this magnitude with this many people involved was in itself an experimental endeavor that challenged us to develop a project and maintain strong communication and organizational skills that are vital to the interdisciplinary component of synthetic biology. Not only did each individual have something unique to offer to the team, but so did each individual university based on their access to resources that other schools might have lacked. Perhaps one of the most vital components of this project is what we learned from working together to help develop a project that we would not have been able to accomplish individually. Having gained a better understanding of how research can be conducted in a huge group setting has provided us with the experience that will really become instrumental in our future in research and in particular synthetic biology as the need for collaborative projects between schools, states, and even countries becomes a normal part of the research world.
Collaborations with Other Teams
We helped the software team create a program that can analyze a
construct's DNA sequence and design oligo primers that can be used for USER
fusion. Our team helped by explaining how USER fusion works, explaining
optimal length of primers, and explaining optimal melting temperatures for
the primers. USER fusion is a method for splicing together long strands of
DNA and is convenient for construct assembly.
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