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href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ewm9bSkwOJqjLO6MO2zrWWgQ-CpccWu5hi2LQyTdNsA/edit#slide=id.p">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Narrowed down our project ideas into top two contenders</li></ul><h1>April</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16mGN80M4SeKDFyraB4mOoL7qHQRSVn2fe-bXS2BXFjs/edit#slide=id.p">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Decided our project topic: Plastic Degradation</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mL1wPnVBBH3IET4NTy8y2t0uNuXKPg2HBiFtm1poLEU/edit#slide=id.p">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Planned for our project to be composed of a drylab component and a wetlab component</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mL1wPnVBBH3IET4NTy8y2t0uNuXKPg2HBiFtm1poLEU/edit#slide=id.p">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Brainstormed end goals and tasks for each component of the project</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bHYOngWQqoKQGqgpKpaxqRcXzaGb0AudkvwBUNOSSho/edit#slide=id.p">Week 4</a></h5><ul><li>Continuation of Week 3</li></ul><h1>May</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11sG14wPYblFdip2gozcdJ6hmnL3QZ9BFtYuw5GUWD2E/edit#slide=id.p">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Began literature review for PETase and PET degradation studies</li></ul><h5>Week 2</h5><ul><li>Off week for finals</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wH2a9YTCVhDeQHsOzf00dOrrgOYNyrUolY52JRQeexI/edit#slide=id.p">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Developed initial protocols</li><li>Drylab: Evaluated different methods of creating a model for new protein sequences</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CP6EWY59IrhPJcV3P623Et0aHCNZG_a-Mx6REjDn2Ag/edit#slide=id.p">Week 4</a></h5><ul><li>Continuation of Week 3</li></ul><h1>June</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-hA1KMC0a3G69YG1lB8Ooe7FXrh8YUs1s99g8RfalbI/edit#slide=id.p">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Reagents prepared for initial testing of plasmids</li><li>Drylab: Evaluated HMMER and RNN models and their efficacy for sequence analysis and generation</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JkmoeHbtuNdLG3UUHCLSfVrMtDNvYVqo0z9oK29NCRY/edit#slide=id.p">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Began practice for plasmid transformation and purification</li><li>Drylab: Decided on using an RNN pipeline, researched prior iGEM teams’ computational work with PETase</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BklqAkUwnTEajw7hmNL0NIjF3P0AcCJZv8g6I_7HJas/edit#slide=id.ge2014a9313_0_124">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Received plasmids, continue work with competent cells</li><li>Drylab: Continued research into previous iGEM work, specifically 2019 iGEM Toronto. Analyzed their pipeline and researched use-cases of UniRep + Docker</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17E7ev24W4Sl4oF6TSZ0p3ztoG5MlSmeUQrQeONJHdsA/edit#slide=id.p">Week 4</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Performed plasmid purification and Nanodrop analysis, reviewing errors for coming weeks</li><li>Drylab: Compiled initial set of training sequences from literature review. Also performed sequence alignment of Toronto iGEM’s sequences using BLAST</li></ul><h1>July</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bnAyHE6kmmF9FN4Hl38QYyU8d1GjwFQdQ5NUy1l_vPk/edit#slide=id.p">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Troubleshooting restriction digest, sequenced extracted DNA</li><li>Drylab: Continued sequence gathering for model training, and set up Docker for pipeline testing. Emailed iGEM Toronto for questions and possible</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e_fsa3oVsSB6Vjj1LR-ediGt81HpuG82O8tiv4Ml5Ys/edit#slide=id.p">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Performed SDS-PAGE and troubleshooting</li><li>Drylab: Continuation of Week 1, UniRep tutorial started</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1732h4edFuFtsL7opWxOv2zII7vPEOd4SOkVL6_YdC_E/edit#slide=id.p">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Ran more SDS-PAGEs, began preparation for protein purification</li><li>Drylab: Began pipeline work, continued literature review for enzyme characteristics like thermostability and catalytic activity</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1W9yBFgRXfXQg_uo0MR4lhWxRc_zov9LZnZNO2CN_kr0/edit#slide=id.p">Week 4</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Additional troubleshooting for previous protocols, began collaboration with UT Austin’s wetlab group for protein purification troubleshooting</li><li>Drylab: Tested iGEM Toronto 2019’s initial pipeline for any output, continue studying code architecture for incorporation of our training set</li><li>Attended JulyGEM meetup with other iGEM teams to receive feedback on our progress so far</li></ul><h1>August</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17_5iAI87U401O_xrUQ04Xyg3rb6hqcKarI4hcfO6AdU/edit#slide=id.p">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Literature review for protocols, especially alternative lysis</li><li>Drylab: Pipeline tested, several technical issues and platform issues with Docker and Colab debugged. Working to create CRUD table for a PETase web database</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C-FhNVVKdUvdJexONQ4QcEqYbhHCq2UOJdfQp825t_A/edit#slide=id.p">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Worked on protocols for coming weeks (competent cells)</li><li>Drylab: Completed basic pipeline debugs, able to generate sequence output. Began preparation of training set for the pipeline</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LLjLETke3wk_n3dQZuqzZxWiW8mHVzdNdIu2xISO3ic/edit#slide=id.p">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: No updates, continued work from Week 2</li><li>Drylab: Completed further modifications to pipeline and ran model with our training data, output sequences generated flawlessly. Continued work on web PETase database in collaboration with iGEM Toronto</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TggnsJ_xugIN7gk8kPTjVbrc9-qeXwC2fiJHrbi5uxg/edit#slide=id.p">Week 4</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Began plasmid purification and protein purification prep, update protocols</li><li>Drylab: No updates, aside from further pipeline testing and database work</li><li>Interviewed Dr. Ting Lu in Bioengineering</li></ul><h1>September</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GkzuJP3rYdNdVgg0MVCc-qhCz09jTsw2LfuX5AzwOhA/edit#slide=id.p">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Protein and plasmid purification, ordered mutants</li><li>Drylab: Sent three mutant candidates to wetlab for validation. Began package development</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15HUNq47EgKIL7vwKNleM1yt11M4WhEJ320mbNDacIJs/edit#slide=id.gf07a4d5387_0_0">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Continuation of Week 1, continued contact with UT Austin for troubleshooting</li><li>Drylab: Drafting master document for wiki and compiling all information. Continued collaboration with iGEM Toronto for PETase sequence database. Package development in progress.</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15HUNq47EgKIL7vwKNleM1yt11M4WhEJ320mbNDacIJs/edit#slide=id.gf07a4d5387_0_0">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Obtained PET band on SDS-PAGE gel, began prep for FPLC</li><li>Drylab: Continued work on master wiki document</li></ul><h5>Week 4</h5><ul><li>Off-week for midterms and other commitments</li></ul><h1>October</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j1odutGd0F6B3LYI3fbc72fkV40GRizPUPmH3CzStjw/edit#slide=id.gef963dee75_0_27">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: FPLC preparation and training</li><li>Drylab: Drafting for wiki complete, started illustrations and design work. Initial version of package published on test index</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bmM6EnKCqU50CG7Y4gG0vCpFoXZDeVKAUl2GpxDPTeo/edit#slide=id.p">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Finalized additional protocols for wiki, continued FPLC prep</li><li>Drylab: Package made available on GitHub. Met with iGEM Toronto for mutant analysis and thermostability predictions. 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href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ct75cn6P3tdHqn7d1uOC8eB6tiNB4VVTNMSjk2wf2tU/edit#slide=id.p">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Continuation of Week 1</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ewm9bSkwOJqjLO6MO2zrWWgQ-CpccWu5hi2LQyTdNsA/edit#slide=id.p">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Narrowed down our project ideas into top two contenders</li></ul><h1>April</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16mGN80M4SeKDFyraB4mOoL7qHQRSVn2fe-bXS2BXFjs/edit#slide=id.p">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Decided our project topic: Plastic Degradation</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mL1wPnVBBH3IET4NTy8y2t0uNuXKPg2HBiFtm1poLEU/edit#slide=id.p">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Planned for our project to be composed of a drylab component and a wetlab component</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mL1wPnVBBH3IET4NTy8y2t0uNuXKPg2HBiFtm1poLEU/edit#slide=id.p">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Brainstormed end goals and tasks for each component of the project</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bHYOngWQqoKQGqgpKpaxqRcXzaGb0AudkvwBUNOSSho/edit#slide=id.p">Week 4</a></h5><ul><li>Continuation of Week 3</li></ul><h1>May</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11sG14wPYblFdip2gozcdJ6hmnL3QZ9BFtYuw5GUWD2E/edit#slide=id.p">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Began literature review for PETase and PET degradation studies</li></ul><h5>Week 2</h5><ul><li>Off week for finals</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wH2a9YTCVhDeQHsOzf00dOrrgOYNyrUolY52JRQeexI/edit#slide=id.p">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Developed initial protocols</li><li>Drylab: Evaluated different methods of creating a model for new protein sequences</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CP6EWY59IrhPJcV3P623Et0aHCNZG_a-Mx6REjDn2Ag/edit#slide=id.p">Week 4</a></h5><ul><li>Continuation of Week 3</li></ul><h1>June</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-hA1KMC0a3G69YG1lB8Ooe7FXrh8YUs1s99g8RfalbI/edit#slide=id.p">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Reagents prepared for initial testing of plasmids</li><li>Drylab: Evaluated HMMER and RNN models and their efficacy for sequence analysis and generation</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JkmoeHbtuNdLG3UUHCLSfVrMtDNvYVqo0z9oK29NCRY/edit#slide=id.p">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Began practice for plasmid transformation and purification</li><li>Drylab: Decided on using an RNN pipeline, researched prior iGEM teams’ computational work with PETase</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BklqAkUwnTEajw7hmNL0NIjF3P0AcCJZv8g6I_7HJas/edit#slide=id.ge2014a9313_0_124">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Received plasmids, continue work with competent cells</li><li>Drylab: Continued research into previous iGEM work, specifically 2019 iGEM Toronto. Analyzed their pipeline and researched use-cases of UniRep + Docker</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17E7ev24W4Sl4oF6TSZ0p3ztoG5MlSmeUQrQeONJHdsA/edit#slide=id.p">Week 4</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Performed plasmid purification and Nanodrop analysis, reviewing errors for coming weeks</li><li>Drylab: Compiled initial set of training sequences from literature review. Also performed sequence alignment of Toronto iGEM’s sequences using BLAST</li></ul><h1>July</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bnAyHE6kmmF9FN4Hl38QYyU8d1GjwFQdQ5NUy1l_vPk/edit#slide=id.p">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Troubleshooting restriction digest, sequenced extracted DNA</li><li>Drylab: Continued sequence gathering for model training, and set up Docker for pipeline testing. Emailed iGEM Toronto for questions and possible</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e_fsa3oVsSB6Vjj1LR-ediGt81HpuG82O8tiv4Ml5Ys/edit#slide=id.p">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Performed SDS-PAGE and troubleshooting</li><li>Drylab: Continuation of Week 1, UniRep tutorial started</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1732h4edFuFtsL7opWxOv2zII7vPEOd4SOkVL6_YdC_E/edit#slide=id.p">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Ran more SDS-PAGEs, began preparation for protein purification</li><li>Drylab: Began pipeline work, continued literature review for enzyme characteristics like thermostability and catalytic activity</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1W9yBFgRXfXQg_uo0MR4lhWxRc_zov9LZnZNO2CN_kr0/edit#slide=id.p">Week 4</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Additional troubleshooting for previous protocols, began collaboration with UT Austin’s wetlab group for protein purification troubleshooting</li><li>Drylab: Tested iGEM Toronto 2019’s initial pipeline for any output, continue studying code architecture for incorporation of our training set</li><li>Attended JulyGEM meetup with other iGEM teams to receive feedback on our progress so far</li></ul><h1>August</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17_5iAI87U401O_xrUQ04Xyg3rb6hqcKarI4hcfO6AdU/edit#slide=id.p">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Literature review for protocols, especially alternative lysis</li><li>Drylab: Pipeline tested, several technical issues and platform issues with Docker and Colab debugged. Working to create CRUD table for a PETase web database</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C-FhNVVKdUvdJexONQ4QcEqYbhHCq2UOJdfQp825t_A/edit#slide=id.p">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Worked on protocols for coming weeks (competent cells)</li><li>Drylab: Completed basic pipeline debugs, able to generate sequence output. Began preparation of training set for the pipeline</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LLjLETke3wk_n3dQZuqzZxWiW8mHVzdNdIu2xISO3ic/edit#slide=id.p">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: No updates, continued work from Week 2</li><li>Drylab: Completed further modifications to pipeline and ran model with our training data, output sequences generated flawlessly. Continued work on web PETase database in collaboration with iGEM Toronto</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TggnsJ_xugIN7gk8kPTjVbrc9-qeXwC2fiJHrbi5uxg/edit#slide=id.p">Week 4</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Began plasmid purification and protein purification prep, update protocols</li><li>Drylab: No updates, aside from further pipeline testing and database work</li><li>Interviewed Dr. Ting Lu in Bioengineering</li></ul><h1>September</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GkzuJP3rYdNdVgg0MVCc-qhCz09jTsw2LfuX5AzwOhA/edit#slide=id.p">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Protein and plasmid purification, ordered mutants</li><li>Drylab: Sent three mutant candidates to wetlab for validation. Began package development</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15HUNq47EgKIL7vwKNleM1yt11M4WhEJ320mbNDacIJs/edit#slide=id.gf07a4d5387_0_0">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Continuation of Week 1, continued contact with UT Austin for troubleshooting</li><li>Drylab: Drafting master document for wiki and compiling all information. Continued collaboration with iGEM Toronto for PETase sequence database. Package development in progress.</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15HUNq47EgKIL7vwKNleM1yt11M4WhEJ320mbNDacIJs/edit#slide=id.gf07a4d5387_0_0">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Obtained PET band on SDS-PAGE gel, began prep for FPLC</li><li>Drylab: Continued work on master wiki document</li></ul><h5>Week 4</h5><ul><li>Off-week for midterms and other commitments</li></ul><h1>October</h1><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j1odutGd0F6B3LYI3fbc72fkV40GRizPUPmH3CzStjw/edit#slide=id.gef963dee75_0_27">Week 1</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: FPLC preparation and training</li><li>Drylab: Drafting for wiki complete, started illustrations and design work. Initial version of package published on test index</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bmM6EnKCqU50CG7Y4gG0vCpFoXZDeVKAUl2GpxDPTeo/edit#slide=id.p">Week 2</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Finalized additional protocols for wiki, continued FPLC prep</li><li>Drylab: Package made available on GitHub. Met with iGEM Toronto for mutant analysis and thermostability predictions. Troubleshooted the wiki pipeline and began incorporating content to the main wiki page</li></ul><h5><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/u/2/d/1BlX2LE6Emv2fiA03aXMV2PaMOVdpxqPK5JgzOYjIqrc/edit">Week 3</a></h5><ul><li>Wetlab: Performed FPLC and began work with mutants</li><li>Drylab: Continued incorporation of content into the wiki before deadline</li><li>Wiki freeze on Oct 21</li></ul><h5>Week 4</h5><ul><li>Worked on the final presentation video</li></ul></article></div></div></div></main><footer><div class="container"><div class="row justify-content-center"><div id="footerTeamLogo"></div><div id="UIUCLogo"></div><div id="CABBILogo"></div><div id="IGBLogo"></div></div><p>iGEM UIUC_Illinois</p><p>Email: <a href="mailto:igembitsgoa@gmail.com">illinoisigem@gmail.com</a></p><p>Headquarter: <a href="https://www.igb.illinois.edu/">Carl R. 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