Team:Virginia/Attributions



Attributions


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Keith Kozminski, PhD

Team Advisor
Professor Kozminski has offered a guiding hand as our team designed and executed our project. From teaching a preparatory iGEM course in the spring to advising us and helping us overcome the various obstacles that arise over the course of the competition season, Professor Kozminski has become our team’s compass, helping our team stay on track.
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Jason Papin, PhD

Team Advisor
Along with providing the team with encouragement, Professor Papin has been very helpful in streamlining the modeling. An expert in metabolic cell models, Professor Papin's insight has been instrumental in the course of the development of flux model part of the project.
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Kay Christopher

Lab Support
With her office directly conjoined with our lab space, Mrs. Christopher was incredible guide for our team as we traversed us through our team's summer WetLab adventure. From helping us set up our lab and summer and fall experimentation to providing us with insight as the team was conducting procedures, Mrs. Christopher's contributions to our team were incredibly useful to the success of our team over the summer and fall.

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

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

Human Practices Help

    Samantha Pagni

Poster

  • “Water: sewage treatment plant: tertiary”, Tracey Saxby, Integration and Application Network, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (ian.umces.edu/imagelibrary/)
  • “Cylindrospermum sp.” By Matthewjparker - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
  • “Dried, anaerobically digested sludge.” By The original uploader was Vortexrealm at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Teratornis using CommonsHelper., CC BY-SA 2.5