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| - | "components of essential oils, most notably the terpenoids. While most plants express terpenes in the range of " +
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| - | "parts per million and thus require very large scale operations to be commercially viable, early forays into the " +
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| - | "biological production of terpenes have proven that it is possible to improve yields 100-fold 2. We selected a " +
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| - | "total of nine different terpenes to produce (see table), each of which has practical applications which make " +
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| - | "them prime candidates for alternate means of production. The first aspect of our project involves using the " +
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| - | "plant material to get a substantive yield. This may not pose as significant of an issue for citrus growers, but" +
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| - | " many of the most prized compounds are taken from the rarest species of plant. The continuation of the status quo " +
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| - | text = "In order for our idea to truly be applicable to exotic and endangered species of plant, we had to take an " +
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| - | var text = "Terpene biosynthesis in plants is part of larger pathways that metabolize isoprenoid intermediates. " +
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| - | "Genes encoding for enzymes known as synthases catalyze the terminal step in these pathways, from a precursor " +
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| - | "(commonly farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) or garnyl pyrophosphate (GPP)) to the final terpene product. As it " +
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| - | "happens, two well established and genetically manipulable model organisms- the bacterium Escherichia coli " +
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| - | "and baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae- produce moderate amounts of GPP and FPP as part of their " +
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| - | "endogenous non-mevalonate pathway (MEP) and mevalonate pathway (MEV) respectively3. All that is required " +
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| - | "for either of these organisms to begin producing terepenes is to introduce that single synthase gene. ";
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| - | text = "Yeast initially was our main target for a few advantages it appeared to have as a production platform. " +
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| - | "First, the MEV pathway is found in all eukaryotes including plants and fungi, so better yield were expected by " +
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| - | "choosing it over the MEP pathway in prokaryotes4. Second, it would be possible to physically integrate our gene" +
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| - | " into one of the yeast's chromosomes by using homologous recombination. An inducible promoter could be included" +
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| - | " to further increase production. Third, as a diploid the yeast could be made homozygous for the terpene gene. We" +
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| - | " soon found out that no exiting vector had all of the features we would want. Therefore, we designed our own new" +
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| - | " plasmid vector, pVU140006, that contained a number of important features and advances over previous plasmids for" +
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| - | " this purpose. See our parts page for more information on what special features we included and their relevance " +
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| - | var head = document.createElement("header");
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| - |
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| - | var text = "Our project had several co-dependent sub-project that were all worked on in parallel. These can " +
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| - | "roughly be divided into two categories: the first involving work on our synthase genes and the second" +
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| - | " involving the construction of a new, specially designed plasmid vector. We tried two different team " +
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| - | "structures over the year to see which would give the best results. For the Spring, we had the original " +
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| - | "idea of dividing members into independent groups, each working on a specific terpene. Each group was " +
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| - | "headed by a single group manager who would teach 4-5 new members the protocol that was to be preformed " +
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| - | "and then supervise that the work was carried out correctly. On occasion either the group managers or the" +
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| - | " organization president or wetware director would also given lessons to teach members about the techniques" +
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| - | " and theory involved at each step. All group managers were in turn trained by either the president " +
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| - | "or wetware director, both of whom had come with the experiment, acquired all the necessary primers and r" +
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| - | "eagents, wrote up the protocol, and had preformed it prior to any group-phase work for the purposes of t" +
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| - | "roubleshooting and predicting where issues may come up. The president or wetware director also helped the" +
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| - | "egy to isolating RNA from our plants. This RNA could be converted to cDNA by reverse transcription, which would e" +
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| - | "liminate the issue with introns we were having. Several of our greenhouse plants were no longer available, so w" +
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| - | "e reduced the number of target terpenes we were focusing on. After extracting RNA and running an RT-PCR, severa" +
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| - | var text = "In addition to our own wetware project, our team led fruitful collaborations with a total of three" +
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| - | " other iGEM teams. First, we played a major role in assisting Vanderbilt's microfluidic division with the b" +
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| - | "t. Second, we provided feedback to Vanderbilt's software division about their own project involving a prog" +
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| - | "2. Ajikumar PK, Tyo K, Carlsen S, Mucha O, Phon TH, Stephanopoulos G. Terpenoids: opportunities for biosynth" +
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| - | "4.Martin VJ, Pitera DJ, Withers ST, Newman JD, Keasling JD. Engineering a mevalonate pathway in Escherichia " +
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| - | "coli for production of terpenoids. Nat Biotechnol. 2003;21(7):796-802.";
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| - | "BBa_K1322231 is a codon-optimized biobrick part encoding the gene for alpha-santalene synthase (E" +
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| - | "The gene, derived from a relative of the exotic sandalwood tree, has been demonstrated to produce function" +
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| - | "We confirmed our part succesfully ligated into pSB1C3 by a diagnostic digest of miniprepped plasmid. While " +
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| - | "t. For cloning in bacteria, it has a prokaryotic origin of replication taken out of pUC19. Two regions of" +
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| - | var text1 = "As part of our collaboration with Vanderbilt Microfluidics, we were working with the existing bio" +
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| - | "brick K546546, which encodes a self-regulating fluorescent oscillating system. We wanted to make this par" +
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| - | "t compatible with all major RFC standards, and did so by using our site-directed mutagenesis kit with spe" +
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| - | "cially designed primers. The sequence changes were designed so that the part should function equally well" +
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| - | " as it did before. For a gel showing confirmation, please see our lab notebook under October 11th.";
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| - | "se α-santalene production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Microbial Cell Factories 2012 11:117";
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| - | "ansferase activity and acid soluble sulphydryl level. Cancer Letters, 68 (1993) 105 - 109 Koch et al: Inhi" +
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| - | "bitory effect of essential oils against herpes simplex virus type 2. Phytomedicine 2008;15(1-2):71-8. ";
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| - |
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| - | var ref3 = "Rebecca Tirabassi, How to identify supercoils, nicks and circles in plasmid preps. Bitesizebio. Oc" +
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| - | var text = [["Extracted genomic DNA from 100 mg of Arabidopsis thaliana leaves using a Viogene DNA extraction kit. Samples were " +
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| - | "labeled ZIN for zingiberene."],
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| - | ["Two samples were prepared and nanodropped. The concentration of the first w" +
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| - | ["ZIN1, ZIN2, CAR1, and CAR2 all show a faint but distinct DNA band above the highest rung on the DNA l" +
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| - | "adder (>10kb), showing the presence of DNA. No bands were seen on the kit flow-through. Indicates successful g" +
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| - | "enomic extraction."],
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| - | ["Preformed a second genomic extraction on Picea abies to improve yield. Nanodrop shows CAR3 to be " +
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| - | "at 6.2 ng/ul and CAR4 to be 11.5 ng/ul."],
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| - | ["Extracted genomic DNA from Gossypium hirsutum. Samples nanodroppped: CAD1 1.8 ng/ul and CAD2 7.8 ng/ul."]];
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| - | text = [["Ran a gel on CAR3, CAR4, CAD1, and CAD2. Brighter genomic DNA bands were seen on the cadinene camples" +
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| - | " than before, but cadinene samples showed significant smearing near the top of the gel."]];
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| - | text = [["Extracted genomic DNA from Salvia officinalis . Samples nanodropped: SAB1 7.5 ng/ul, and SAB 11.4 ng/ul."],
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| - | ["Extracted genomic DNA from Mentha citrata . Samples nanodropped: LNR1 3.4 ng/ul, LNR2 6.2 ng/ul, LNR3 7.3 ng/ul"],
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| - | ["E. coli containing p404GALS and pDZ207 from Addgene were grown on LB plates with ampicilin. These were min" +
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| - | "iprepped using a Viogen kit. Samples nanodropped: p404GALS (A) 130.2 ng/ul, p404GALS (B) 112.3 ng/ul, pDZ2" +
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| - | "07 (A) 145.3 ng/ul, pDZ207 (B) 84.1 ng/ul."]];
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| - | ["Ran gel on LNR1, LNR2, LNR3, LNS1, LNS2, SAB1, and SAB2. All show high weight DNA bands, with Linalool (S) sampl" +
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| - | "es having the brightest."]];
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| - | text = [["Extracted genomic DNA from Zingiber zermbet . Sample nanodropped: HUM1 31.9 ng/ul and HUM2 18.6 ng/ul"],
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| - | ["Extracted genomic DNA from Ocimum basilicum . Sample nanodropped: GER1 2.3 ng/ul"]];
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| - | text = [["Extracted genomic DNA from Santalum album seeds since the sapling was still not fully grown. Sample nan" +
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| - | "odropped: SAN1 53.8 ng/ul and SAN2 28.4 ng/ul"]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(a5, text);
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| - | text = [["Extracted genomic DNA from Perilla frutescens . Sample nanodropped: MYR1 632.8 ng/ul and MYR2 958.6 ng/ul"],
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| - | ["Extracted genomic DNA from Perilla frutescens . Sample nanodropped: MYR1 632.8 ng/ul and MYR2 958.6 ng/ul"]];
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| - |
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| - | text = [["Preformed PCR using zingiberene synthase primers on LNS2 genomic DNA and using linalool (S) synthase p" +
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| - | "rimers on the sample template."],
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| - | ["Ran gel on PCR product. Resulted in no visible bands formed."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(a24, text);
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| - | text = [["Took 1.8 ul of HUM1 genomic DNA and preformed a PCR with humelene synthase primers."],
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| - | ["Ran gel on PCR product. Resulted in three total bands, one faint around 1.2 kb, and two bands very close " +
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| - | "in size just under 3.0 kb."],
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| - | ["Both ~3 kb bands were gel extracted, combining across all four lanes. Samples nanodropped: HUM-top 8.5 ng/u" +
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| - | "l, HUM-bottom 10.6 ng/ul."]];
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| - | text = [["Preformed PCR using linalool (R) synthase primers on LNR3 genomic DNA."],
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| - | ["Ran gel on PCR product. Resulted in no visible bands formed."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(a27, text);
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| - | text = [["Preformed PCR using myrcene synthase primers on MYR2 genomic DNA."],
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| - | ["Ran gel on PCR product. Smeared bands on gel but no distinct bands."],
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| - | ["Preformed overlap-extension PCR on the gel extracted humelene samples (both HUM-top and HUM-bottom) to add " +
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| - | "epitope tag sequence."],
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| - | ["Ran gel on OE-PCR product. Only extremely faint bands were visible."]];
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| - | "An example of a gel showing high molecular weight (>10 kb) bands corresponding to successfully " +
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| - | "extracted plant genomic DNA (in this case, samples LNS1 and LNS2 from Arabidopsis DNA");
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| - | "PCR products resulting from primers targeted to hmelene synthase using Zingiber genomic" +
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| - | "DNA as a template. The sixth ladder band down corresponds to 3000 bp.");
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| - | var text = [["Continued troubleshooting PCR reaction conditions for all of the terpenes that failed " +
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| - | "to amplify. Tried adjusting template concentration, adding DMSO, changing thermocycler program, hot " +
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| - | "start PCR, new polymerase and dNTPs."],
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| - | ["Re-did genomic extractions for those that produced less than 50 ng/ul of genomic DNA. " +
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| - | "Used this new template in further PCRs."],
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| - | ["Extracted the Gal10 gene from our template plasmid and a kanomycin resistance gene borde" +
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| - | "red by LoxP sites."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(may, text);
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| - |
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| - | text = [["All of the gene cassettes for plasmid construction that were successfully extracted so far" +
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| - | " were ligated together and inserted into the MCS of pUC19. This formed our first intermediate plasmid."]];
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| - |
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| - | text = [["Finally reached the point that all terpene genes were consistently amplifying with the " +
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| - | "synthase gene primers. The genomic DNA sample for sabinene was completely used before this point, " +
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| - | "although all other of the 8 terpenes showed clear bands.."]];
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| - | "The results of the genomic DNA PCR on all of the plant species.",
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| - | 554, 735,
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| - | "The results of the genomic DNA PCR indicated each gene had a large fraction of introns. " +
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| - | "None of the genes had a distinct band at exactly the right weight corresponding with what " +
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| - | "the intron-less cDNA size would be.");
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| - | var text = [["Moved the lab into its new space before the start of the semester."],
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| - | ["Created the plasmid intermediate pVU1400A, which is missing only a single insert to become pVU14004."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_aug, text);
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| - | text = [["Ran RNA extraction on all the plants that were still available. This excluded Myrcene and " +
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| - | "Linalool (R) since both Perilla frutescens and Mentha aquatica had withered over the summered."],
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| - | ["Repeated RNA extractions on those which showed appreciable concentration on the nanodrop. Event" +
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| - | "ually all 7 remanining terpenes had plant RNA in appreciable quantities (most between 20-50 " +
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| - | "ng/ul, with a few less than 10 and a few more than 100 ng/ul)."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_sept, text);
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| - | text = [["Digested plasmid intermediate grown in demethylated bacteria with ClaI. Ligated final " +
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| - | "insert into vector. No transfomants grow after 24 hours."],
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| - | ["Diagnostic digest shows the ClaI enzyme is cutting properly. pUC19 positive control for transforma" +
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| - | "tions show that the competent cells are working."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_s17, text);
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| - |
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| - | text = [["Ran reverse transcription PCR on extracted RNA to isolate synthase cDNA. Humelene and sabinene " +
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| - | "show clear positive results, santalene shows amplification at smaller region, and cadinene shows no" +
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| - | " cDNA bands."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_s18, text);
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| - | text = [["Made liquid cultures of K546546 in preparation for mutagenesis. Also made glycerol stock to store at -80."],
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| - | ["Diagnostic digest of ligation of pVU1400A intermediate and the final insert needed to make " +
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| - | "finished plasmid. Gel clearly shows bands in exactly the correct positions for each of three " +
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| - | "comparison conditions, proving that the creation of pVU14004 was finally successful.."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_s19, text);
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| - | text = [["Miniprep of K546546 liquid cultures (1 ml ). First culture tube concentration of 85.7 ng/ul " +
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| - | "DNA, second 105.1 ng/ul."],
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| - | ["RNA extracted arabadopsis and Picea abies to improve yield and quality. Carene still failed to " +
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| - | "get an RNA concentration greater than 10 ng/ul, while Arabidopsis produced 107 ng/ul with a go" +
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| - | "od A260/A280 ratio."],
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| - | ["Miniprep of K546546 liquid cultures (1 ml ). First culture tube concentration of 85.7 ng/ul " +
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| - | "DNA, second 105.1 ng/ul"]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_s20, text);
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| - | text = [["RT-PCR done on humelene, linalool (S), sabinene, and zingiberene. Sabinene produces clear " +
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| - | "bands, while zingiberene shows one faint band at roughly the correct size. Positive controls are also " +
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| - | "run to confirm that the reverse transcription step is not the cause of any failures to amplify."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_s26, text);
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| - | text = [["RT-PCR done on humelene, sabinene, and santalene. Sabinene again produces clear bands,and " +
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| - | "santalene does as well although much fainter. Both bands were gel extracted to yield a small " +
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| - | "(<10 ng/ul) amount of DNA."],
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| - | ["Extracted DNA was ligated into pUC19 and transformed into E. coli."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_o5, text);
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| - | text = [["Site direction mutagenesis kit and specially designed primers were used to mutagenize K546546 " +
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| - | "at its BglI site, sabinene cDNA at its XbaI and EcoRI sites, and pVU14004 at its EcoRI and XbaI sites."],
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| - | ["Mutagenesis product was transformed into E. coli."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_o7, text);
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| - | text = [["Minipreps were done on 5 ml liquid cultures of mutagenized pVU14004, sabinene, and K546546. " +
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| - | "Four liquid cultures were made for each, and both sabinene and pVU14004 were done in duplicate."],
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| - | ["Diagnostic digests were done on miniprepped plasmid to check if the restriction sites were " +
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| - | "mutagenized. pVU14004 appeared to have lost its XbaI site but not its EcoRI site, sabinene shows " +
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| - | "a size that suggests it failed to ligate as an insert into pUC19, and K546 shows only a single " +
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| - | "band at around its starting weight."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_o9, text);
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| - | text = [["All 8 minipreps of sabinene ligated into pUC19 were digested with SpeI and ApaI to check for " +
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| - | "the synthase insert. Only one, Sab B2, shows a second band at the right size."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_o10, text);
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| - |
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| - | text = [["Santalene synthase was ligated into pVU14004 and pSB1C3. E. coli was transformed and incubated."],
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| - | ["The sites that failed to show mutagenesis were mutagenized again using and transformed into E. " +
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| - | "coli. K546546 had its AgeI site mutagenized."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_o11, text);
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| - |
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| - | text = [["All liquid cultures were miniprepped, producing 8 samples of pVU14004 with confirmed XbaI " +
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| - | "mutagenesis, 4 pVU14004 with no sites confirmed, 4 sabinene, and 6 samples produced from santalene in " +
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| - | "pVU14004. None of the plates with santalene in pSB1C3 produced colonies."],
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| - | ["Diagnostic digests were run on all miniprepped plasmid (K546- AgeI, BglI, SphI. Sabinene- EcoRI, " +
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| - | "BamH1. Santalene in pVU- ApaI, XbaI. pVU- EcoRI, XbaI, BamHI, KpnI). Santalene appeared not to have " +
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| - | "ligated into pVU14004. Sabinene did not have its EcoRI site removed by mutagenesis. K546546 had at least" +
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| - | " one cut, but the second sample may have had one site mutagenized."],
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| - | ["Santalene was re-ligated into pSB1C3 and transformed."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_o12, text);
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| - |
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| - | text = [["Santalene in pSB1C3 was miniprepped to good yield. Each of 4 replicates was digested with " +
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| - | "SpeI and ApaI to test for ligation. The ApaI enzyme appears not have cut, but the fourth sample showed an " +
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| - | "uncut plasmid size which corresponded to that of pSB1C with santalene successfully inserted."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_o13, text);
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| - |
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| - | text = [["Ligated santalene synthase again into pVU14004 and transformed into E. coli."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_o14, text);
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| - |
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| - | text = [["One colony grew and was put in liquid culture."],
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| - | ["Culture miniprepped and digested. Again no gene insertion was detectable."]];
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| - | subPage.addMultLI(p_o15, text);
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| - |
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| - | text = [["Transformed pVU14004 into a dam- strain of E. coli to address the methylation sensitivity of ApaI."],
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| - | ["Finished planning and acquiring materials for GC-MS confirmation of terpene presence."]];
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| - | leftPageBuilder.appendChild(p_o15);
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| - | leftPageBuilder.appendChild(o15);
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| - | leftPageBuilder.appendChild(p_o16);
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| - | leftPageBuilder.appendChild(o16);
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| - | };
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| - |
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| - | subPage.createFall2014Right = function() {
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| - | var img1 = subPage.createPhoto("VU_First_RT_PCR_results_cad_hum_sab_san.JPG",
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| - | "Results of a reverse transcription PCR, showing the cDNA amplified from plant RNA template.",
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| - | 346, 417,
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| - | "Results of a reverse transcription PCR, showing the cDNA amplified from plant RNA template.");
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| - |
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| - | var img2 = subPage.createPhoto("VU_Diagnostic_Digest_10-9.JPG",
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| - | "Diagnostic digest produces bands of exactly the correct size (from left to right, 2700, 2700," +
| |
| - | "and 950, 2700, and 1700, confirming that pVU14004 was successfully constructed.",
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| - | 303, 314,
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| - | "Diagnostic digest produces bands of exactly the correct size (from left to right, 2700, 2700," +
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| - | "and 950, 2700, and 1700, confirming that pVU14004 was successfully constructed.");
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| - |
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| - | var img3 = subPage.createPhoto("VU_PVU14004_Conf_9_19.jpg",
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| - | "10-9 Diagnostic digest",
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| - | 340, 286.375,
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| - | "10-9 Diagnostic digest");
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| - |
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| - | var img4 = subPage.createPhoto("VU_10-11_diagnostic_digest.JPG",
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| - | "10-11 Diagnostic digest",
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| - | 331.5, 381.8,
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| - | "10-11 Diagnostic digest");
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| - | return subPage;
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| - | }
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| - | function AttributionsSubPageBuilder() {
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| - | var subPage = new SubPageBuilder();
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| - | subPage.maxSubPage = 2;
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| - | subPage.getMaxSubPage = function() {
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| - | return subPage.maxSubPage;
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| - | };
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| - |
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| - | subPage.createSubPage = function(subPageNum) {
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| - | switch(subPageNum){
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| - | case 1:
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| - | document.getElementById("igem_header").innerHTML = "case 1 of attributions";
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| - | subPage.createIntro();
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| - | subPage.createProfFacul();
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| - | break;
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| - | case 2:
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| - | subPage.createStaffRes();
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| - | subPage.createSponsors();
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| - | break;
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| - | }
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| - | };
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| - |
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| - | subPage.createIntro = function() {
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| - | document.getElementById("igem_header").innerHTML = "beginning of createIntro";
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| - | var header = document.createElement("header");
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| - | header.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Our Attributions"));
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| - | document.getElementById("igem_header").innerHTML = "1 of createIntro";
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| - |
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| - | var text = "While Vanderbilt University's iGEM team is driven by its undergraduates, our work is indebted to " +
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| - | "the generosity of our mentors and gracious sponsors. Vanderbilt iGEM prides itself in being a team run by un" +
| |
| - | "dergraduates, for undergraduates. All project design and data analysis, lab work and experimentation, fundr" +
| |
| - | "aising and outreach, and all the other work done by the team was all preformed by undergraduate student vo" +
| |
| - | "lunteers. However outside companies, faculty and staff, institutions, and individuals all have made contri" +
| |
| - | "butions that have been essential in our team's growth and success. We would like to take the time to speci" +
| |
| - | "ally thank each one of them.";
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| - |
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| - | document.getElementById("igem_header").innerHTML = "2 of createIntro";
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| - | var p = subPage.createP(text);
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| - | document.getElementById("igem_header").innerHTML = "middle of createIntro";
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| - |
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| - | leftPageBuilder.appendChild(header);
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| - | leftPageBuilder.appendChild(p);
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| - | document.getElementById("igem_header").innerHTML = "end of createIntro";
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| - | };
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| - |
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| - | subPage.createProfFacul = function() {
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| - | var header = document.createElement("header");
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| - | header.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Professors and Faculty"));
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| - | var img1 = subPage.createPhoto("VU_Chrissy_marasco.JPG",
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| - | "Chrissy Marasco",
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| - | 300, 300,
| |
| - | "Dr. Chrissy Marasco for her role as the team's principle faculty adviser, with " +
| |
| - | "contributions to both the administrative and scientific work of our team");
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| - |
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| - | var img2 = subPage.createPhoto("VU_Kevin_seale.jpg",
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| - | "Kevin Seale",
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| - | 300, 300,
| |
| - | "Kevin Seale for his role as our team's administrative adviser, providing lab " +
| |
| - | "space and equipment, and offering assistance through the SyBBURE program");
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| - |
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| - | var img3 = subPage.createPhoto("VU_Kathy_friedman.jpg",
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| - | "Kathy Friedman",
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| - | 300, 300,
| |
| - | "Kathy Friedman for her role as our team's scientific adviser, offering technical" +
| |
| - | " assistance during project planing and troubleshooting");
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| - |
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| - | var img4 = subPage.createPhoto("VU_Ian_macara.jpg",
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| - | "Ian Macara",
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| - | 300, 300,
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| - | "Ian Macara for providing our team with lab space, materials, and equipment for the fall semester and beyond");
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| - |
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| - | var img5 = subPage.createPhoto("VU_Mark_woelfle.jpg",
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| - | "Mark Woelfle",
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| - | 300, 300,
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| - | "Mark Woelfle for providing our team with lab space and equipment for the spring semester");
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| - |
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| - | var img6 = subPage.createPhoto("VU_Amanda_benson.jpg",
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| - | "Amanda Benson",
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| - | 300, 300,
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| - | "Amanda Benson for her technical support and guiding collaboration with Ravenwood High School's iGEM team");
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| - |
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| - | rightPageBuilder.appendChild(header);
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| - | rightPageBuilder.appendChild(img1);
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| - | rightPageBuilder.appendChild(img2);
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| - | rightPageBuilder.appendChild(img3);
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| - | rightPageBuilder.appendChild(img4);
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| - | rightPageBuilder.appendChild(img5);
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| - | rightPageBuilder.appendChild(img6);
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| - | };
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| - |
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| - | subPage.createStaffRes = function() {
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| - | var header = document.createElement("header");
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| - | header.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Staff and Resources"));
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| - | var img1 = subPage.createPhoto("VU_Greenhouse_ertelt.jpg",
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| - | "Vanderbilt Greenhouse and Jonathan Ertelt",
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| - | 300, 300,
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| - | "VU Greenhouse and Jonathan Ertelt for assistance growing and maintaining our various plants");
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| - |
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| - | var img2 = subPage.createPhoto("VU_mass_spec.jpg",
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| - | "Mass Spec at Vanderbilt Mass Spectrometry Core",
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| - | 300, 300,
| |
| - | "Vanderbilt Mass Spectrometry Core for agreeing to analyze our samples for terpenoid content and " +
| |
| - | "discussing ways to extract terpene for analysis");
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| - |
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| - | var text = "Dr. Steven Baskauf for general assistance in running our lab.";
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| - | var p1 = subPage.createP(text);
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| - |
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| - | text = "Charles Sissom and Sara Samoray for protocol advice, equipment t" +
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| - | "raining, and assistance in running our lab.";
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| - | var p2 = subPage.createP(text);
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| - |
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| - | text = "Anthony Tharp for access to common equipment resources.";
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| - | var p3 = subPage.createP(text);
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| - |
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| - | text = "Vanderbilt Environmental Health and Safety for training in pro" +
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| - | "per lab practice and safe waste disposal.";
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| - | var p4 = subPage.createP(text);
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| - |
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| - | text = "University of Massachusetts Medical Center, especially Dr. Aviva Joseph, for tec" +
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| - | "hnical advice related to our genetic constructs.";
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| - | var p5 = subPage.createP(text);
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| - |
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| - | document.getElementById("left_page").appendChild(header);
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| - | document.getElementById("left_page").appendChild(img1);
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| - | document.getElementById("left_page").appendChild(img2);
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| - | document.getElementById("left_page").appendChild(p1);
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| - | document.getElementById("left_page").appendChild(p2);
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| - | document.getElementById("left_page").appendChild(p3);
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| - | document.getElementById("left_page").appendChild(p4);
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| - | document.getElementById("left_page").appendChild(p5);
| |
| - | };
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| - |
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| - | subPage.createSponsors = function() {
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| - | var header = document.createElement("header");
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| - | header.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Sponsors"));
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| - |
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| - | var img1 = [subPage.createPlainIMG("VU_SyBBURE.png", "SyBBURE", 300, 146),
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| - | subPage.createPlainIMG("VU_VIIBRE.png", "VIIBRE", 300, 69)];
| |
| - | var img2 = [subPage.createPlainIMG("VU_Biomatters.png", "Biomatters", 300, 101),
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| - | subPage.createPlainIMG("VU_School_of_Engineering.jpg", "Vanderbilt School of Engineering", 300, 51)];
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| - |
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| - | var table = document.createElement("table");
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| - | table.style.width = "80%";
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| - | table.style.margin = "auto";
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| - |
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| - | subPage.createRowFromArray(table, img1);
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| - | subPage.createRowFromArray(table, img2);
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| - |
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| - | document.getElementById("right_page").appendChild(header);
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| - | document.getElementById("right_page").appendChild(table);
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| - | };
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| - |
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| - | return subPage;
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| - |
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| - | /**
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| - | * Created by Anna Hwang on 1/15/2015.
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| - | */
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| - | var leftPage = document.getElementById("left_page");
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| - | var rightPage = document.getElementById("right_page");
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| - |
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| - | var leftButton = document.getElementById("left_button");
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| - | var rightButton = document.getElementById("right_button");
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| - |
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| - | var factory = new SubPageBuilderFactory();
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| - |
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| - | /**@class Page
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| - | * @description A class in charge of creating, updating, and destroying pages between page turns.
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| - | * @param pageNum: the page number of the page (e.g. Home = 1, Team = 2, ...)
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| - | * **/
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| - | function Page(pageNum) {
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| - |
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| - | document.getElementById("igem_header").innerHTML = "reached Page constr: 1";
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| - | var subPageNum = 1;
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| - | var builder = factory.makeBuilder(pageNum);
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| - | var maxSubPage = builder.getMaxSubPage();
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| - |
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| - | this.destroyPage = function() {
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| - | while(leftPage.hasChildNodes()) {
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| - | leftPage.removeChild(leftPage.childNodes[0]);
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| - | }
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| - | while(rightPage.hasChildNodes()) {
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| - | rightPage.removeChild(rightPage.childNodes[0]);
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| - | }
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| - | };
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| - |
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| - |
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| - | this.turnPage = function(dir) {
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| - | subPageNum += dir;
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| - | this.destroyPage();
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| - | builder.createSubPage(subPageNum);
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| - | };
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| - |
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| - |
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| - | this.getSubPageNum = function () {
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| - | return subPageNum;
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| - | };
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| - |
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| - | this.getMaxSubPage = function() {
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| - | return maxSubPage;
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| - | };
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| - | }
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| - |
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| - |
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| - | var thisPage = new Page(thisPageNum);
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| - | thisPage.turnPage(0);
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| - |
| |
| - | /**@description These functions cause the Buttons on the page to change the SubPage when clicked.**/
| |
| - | leftButton.onclick=function(){
| |
| - | thisPage.turnPage(-1);
| |
| - | updateButtons(thisPage.getSubPageNum());
| |
| - | };
| |
| - |
| |
| - | rightButton.onclick=function(){
| |
| - | thisPage.turnPage(1);
| |
| - | updateButtons(thisPage.getSubPageNum());
| |
| - | };
| |
| - |
| |
| - | function updateButtons(subPageNum) {
| |
| - | document.getElementById("igem_header").innerHTML = "reached updateButtons";
| |
| - | if(subPageNum == 1) {
| |
| - | leftButton.style.visibility = "hidden";
| |
| - | rightButton.style.visibility = "visible";
| |
| - | }
| |
| - | else if(subPageNum == thisPage.getMaxSubPage()) {
| |
| - | leftButton.style.visibility = "visible";
| |
| - | rightButton.style.visibility = "hidden";
| |
| - | }
| |
| - | else {
| |
| - | leftButton.style.visibility = "visible";
| |
| - | rightButton.style.visibility = "visible";
| |
| - | }
| |
| - | }
| |
| - |
| |
| - | </script>
| |
| | </html> | | </html> |
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