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<p style="position:absolute;top:100px;"> This year our team reached out to the community by helping to educate middle-and-high school aged girls on the tools used in synthetic biology. Not only does it help future scientists get involved at an early age, but it also helps promote gender diversity. We feel it is important to help educate the next generation of women in science by giving them the opportunity to work with DNA and the principals of synthetic biologyat a young age. So we decided to collaborate with the GISE, Girls In Science and Engineering, camp to teach them about synthetic biology. </p>
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<p style="position:absolute;top:100px;"> After our initial planning of the project, we sought input from the Battle Creek, Michigan branch of Covance Incorporated, an established pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation that provides testing services for the food and environmental industries, in addition to providing custom antibody products for the research community. </p>
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<p style="position:absolute;top:177px;width:574px"> Meeting with Christine Gwinn, a microbiology supervisor in the department of nutritional chemistry and food safety, we gleaned valuable information pertaining to our project’s direction.  In any application of antibodies for detection, Gwinn stressed the importance of specificity and time.  For industrial use, detection methods must be highly specific, as any cross reactions reporting false positives would prove highly costly, especially in the food industry.  Furthermore, detection services demand quick turn-around times for results, in order for this data to be delivered to clients on strict timetables. </p>
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<p style="position:absolute;top:500px;width:884"> GISE is a summer camped aimed at getting middle school aged girls involved with science. Our time with the middle schoolers and high schoolers not only allowed the girls to get a look into what studying science in college entails, it also gave our team members experience mentoring the girls, a win-win in the end. We provided the girls with the materials to extract DNA from strawberries and bananas, comparing the yield of DNA and making hypotheses as to what the cause of the yield difference was.  The girls were also able to make neclaces out of their own DNA, following a cheek swab and DNA isolation. </p>
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<p style="position:absolute;top:355px;width:884px"> Through this meeting with Christine Gwinn of Covance, we were able to gauge the practicality of our project and modify it to demonstrate the possible applications of our construct. By allowing simplified antibody purification, we could make improvements in the time it takes to go from demand to detection.</p>
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<p style="position:absolute;top:833px;width:884px"> We received oustanding feedback from the campers, many of whom were repeat campers from previous years. Some of the girls from the earliest years of the camp are prospective team members for next year's team and have attended our practice presentations for the conference in Boston. We feel that this in itself is a great sign that our work with the girls is spreading the word on synthetic biology and building interest in the team. </p>
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Industry Partnerships: Covance

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After our initial planning of the project, we sought input from the Battle Creek, Michigan branch of Covance Incorporated, an established pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation that provides testing services for the food and environmental industries, in addition to providing custom antibody products for the research community.

Meeting with Christine Gwinn, a microbiology supervisor in the department of nutritional chemistry and food safety, we gleaned valuable information pertaining to our project’s direction. In any application of antibodies for detection, Gwinn stressed the importance of specificity and time. For industrial use, detection methods must be highly specific, as any cross reactions reporting false positives would prove highly costly, especially in the food industry. Furthermore, detection services demand quick turn-around times for results, in order for this data to be delivered to clients on strict timetables.

Through this meeting with Christine Gwinn of Covance, we were able to gauge the practicality of our project and modify it to demonstrate the possible applications of our construct. By allowing simplified antibody purification, we could make improvements in the time it takes to go from demand to detection.

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