Team:Virginia/Attributions


Acknowledgements

Our fearless PI's

Professor Keith Kozminski

Professor Jason Papin

Team's Accomplishments

Wastewater

    Tim Castillo was extremely kind to give our team a tour of the Rivanna Wastewater Treatment Plant and gave us deep insight into its operation. He also provided us with a year's worth of monitoring data from RWTP which helped us inform our project, especially the Bioreactor design.

Preparation and Beginning Dates

Our PI, Professor Kozminski, teaches an introductory Synthetic Biology course that all members of the team are required to take. This class meets for three hours every week. Basic synthetic biology concepts were introduced and literature was discussed. Our final project consisted of us teaming up to identify a world issue and then find a synthetic biology solution. We started this class in January when our spring semester began.

We began brainstorming for our project on May 23rd.We began lab work on May 24th. We began the Interlab study on June 5th. We began our project on June 12th.

Why is this page needed?

The Attribution requirement helps the judges know what you did yourselves and what you had help with. We don't mind if you get help with difficult or complex techniques, but you must report what work your team did and what work was done by others.

For example, you might choose to work with an animal model during your project. Working with animals requires getting a license and applying far in advance to conduct certain experiments in many countries. This is difficult to achieve during the course of a summer, but much easier if you can work with a postdoc or PI who has the right licenses.

What should this page have?
  • General Support
  • Project support and advice
  • Fundraising help and advice
  • Lab support
  • Difficult technique support
  • Project advisor support
  • Wiki support
  • Presentation coaching
  • Human Practices support
  • Thanks and acknowledgements for all other people involved in helping make a successful iGEM team
Can we base our project on a previous one?

Yes! You can have a project based on a previous team, or based on someone else's idea, as long as you state this fact very clearly and give credit for the original project.

Inspiration

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Team training and Project start

Tell us if your institution teaches an iGEM or synthetic biology class and when you started your project:

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  • When did you start this course?
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  • When did you start your brainstorming?
  • When did you start in the lab?
  • When did you start working on your project?