Team:Virginia/Attributions



Attributions


Caity organized and ensured the success of the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Meetup

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, and we began our lab work on May 24th. We started the Interlab study on June 5th, and we started our project on June 12th.

Acknowledgements

Our PI's

    Professor Keith Kozminski

    Professor Jason Papin

Lab Support

    Kay Christopher

Project Inspiration

    Our project was partially inspired by DTU Denmark's 2013 iGEM team.

Wiki Inspiration

    Maryland 2016, team page

    Virginia 2016, notebook page

Institutions

    Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority

    Open Biolabs

Sponsors

    Vice President of Research, Phillip Parrish

    The Lacey Fund

    Dean Frederick Epstein

    George McArthur

    SnapGene

    Integrated DNA Technologies

Modeling Help

    ???

Human Practices Help

    Samantha Pagni

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.