Our iGEM team would like to thank the following organizations:
Air Force for providing the grant that allowed us to participate in iGEM this year, as well as for providing the research labs and mentors that carried us through the project.
UES for sponsoring our iGEM team, permitting us to work on our Wiki and presentation in their meeting rooms, and for letting us use their lab space for basic training and safety procedures.
Carroll for providing us meeting space, allowing us to distribute surveys to students, and granting us the opportunity to practice presenting to members of the faculty.
IDT (Integrated DNA Technologies) for providing free DNA sequencing for our plasmids.
Our iGEM team would like to acknowledge the following people:
Dr. Mike Goodson for being our mentor and guiding us throughout the process of iGEM. Dr. Goodson has helped us with our project and always in the lab teaching us new techniques and learning new methods in the lab. Dr. Goodson has taught us to be scientists and deepened our love for synthetic biology.
Dr. Sveltana Harbaugh for helping the RH labs with teaching us techniques and helping us use the machinery in the lab. Dr. Harbaugh has helped us immensely throughout our project and helping us complete our tasks for iGEM.
Dr. Irina for helping us use the spectrometer and teaching us to set up the spectrometer.
Anna Bennett for always answering our questions and letting us borrow her equipment in the lab. Anna showed us many techniques and methods while we were working on our project.
Allison Huffman for helping us whenever we needed help with a techniques and always sharing her supplies with us when we ran out or were short of supplies.
Chia Hung for taking us into his lab and explaining how each protocol works, showing us around the lab, and helping us figure out what happened when something did not work.
Vanessa Varaljay for helping us learn new protocols, always helping us around the lab, and helping us improve upon any of the presentations that we were giving.
Joseph Tang for helping us with protocols that we needed to complete and showing us some of the techniques we needed.
Mattie Carter for always being around the lab to help us whenever we had a questions and taking time out of her project to help ours.
Nathan Ferguson for always helping us find any equipment that we needed and helping us with any questions about the machines we were using.
Rebecca Raig for always helping us find equipment in the lab and helping answering any questions we had about protocols.
Wendy Goodson for allowing us to come and work in her lab as well as allowing us to come to all the lab meetings and present to the lab.
Abby Neal for always helping us find equipment in the lab and answering questions about anything about the lab and always cleaning the equipment.
Maneesh Gupta for helping us whenever we had questions and always helping us around the lab.
William (BJ) Burke for always helping us answer questions and providing all the necessary safety lessons needed in order to work in the lab.
Chelsea Riegel for helping us answer questions and giving us feedback on our results and on how to fix various items that may have gone wrong.
Carrie Drake for always helping us find equipment around the lab and shipping our plasmids to be sequenced.
Dr. Evans for answering any questions we had about the Boston Jamboree, questions about our presentation and what information we need on our presentation.
Mr. Carter for providing constructive criticism on our project and presentation tips. He helped perfect our slides and presentation tone.
Above all, we would like to extend our thanks to the teachers who made the iGem experience possible for us
Dr. Martha Carter for initiating the iGem program at Carroll. As a mentor, she kept us all on task and provided the necessary guidance along our project. Dr. Carter has always been an essential part of every iGem meeting, presentation, and group function. She was always there for emotional support, helped celebrate our triumphs, and provided food on long work sessions. She became a mom figure for all of us.
Dr. Caroline Dickey for being the passionate scientist for the team. With her keen scientific knowledge, Dr. Dickey guided us from the start of the process and initiated the science flow of ideas before deciding on our project. She loved to hear our practice presentations and give us tips on projecting our voices and body language when presenting. Thank you for instilling in us the necessary zeal in high school to further out future scientific careers.
Dr. Christina O'Malley for being the graphics design artist for the team. With her unique Photoshop abilities, Dr. O'Malley inspired our team logo design and Mike the Microbe. In addition, we are thankful for the colorful t-shirts and poster for our team. Dr. O'Malley's outgoing personality provided the necessary comic relief for long wiki and presentation sessions.
Mr. Matt Sableski, principal of Carroll High School for allowing us to pursue iGem from the start and giving us praise every step along the way.
