Attributions
Our project would have been impossible without the help of the following individuals and organizations.
A huge thank you to three research supervisors, Russell Hanson, Jason Fuller and Andrew Cheng, for providing guidance throughout the complicated and challenging laboratory and research experiments. We would also like to thank the wonderful staff of the Genetics Department of Mount Sinai Hospital for giving us an opportunity to conduct experiments.
We are also appreciative of Frank Muradov and Suny Oh and their mentorship and motivation throughout the project.
We are grateful to Chris Avrich, an alum from MIT and Stuyvesant High School, for helping us with integrating our website and contents into the iGEM site.
We are grateful to Columbia University Synthetic Biology Initiative and Jason Mohabir, student at Columbia University, for providing us with space to present our HD Resolution iGEM project and for their valuable feedback.
We appreciate the academic discounts offered by IDT (Integrated DNA Technologies) for G-blocks and NEB for Assembly kit.
We sincerely appreciate the following non-profit research organizations for their informational and community support throughout our endeavor.
We are grateful to Dr. George Yohrling, PhD, Senior Director, Mission and Scientific Affairs and Dr. Leora Fox, PhD, Manager, Research and Mission Programs at Huntington’s Disease Society of America for giving us their feedback about our HD Resolution iGEM research and sharing the most recent developments around Huntington’s Disease nationwide.
We are also grateful to our respective high schools for their community and informational support, and for providing us with academic support.
