Project Advice
A big thanks goes out to our faculty advisors Drs. David Hirschberg, Matthew Lux, and Peter Emanuel.
Fundraising Support
Our team was financially supported by the Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Department of the Army, and Readiness Acceleration and Innovation Network (RAIN).
We received donations of synthetic DNA from Integrated DNA Technologies; a BioBrick Assembly Kit from New England BioLabs; and an Agilent SureVector Cloning Kit from Agilent Technologies.
We are grateful to Dr. Matt Lux, Dr. Peter Emanuel, Dr. Kristine Grace, and Dr. David Hirschberg who helped get our team members Jamboree in Boston.
Human Practices
Our team had many opportunities to engage with the public and discuss human practices. Mrs. Amanda Galuszka helped coordinate the youth outreach programs, public engagement, and logistics. We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their time in talking with us about our team's arsenic biosensor project:
- RAIN
- The Center for Urban Waters (especially Dr. Joel Baker)
- The Charles Wright Academy (especially their Science Research class and Lower School)
- Test America (Mr. Dennis Bean)
- Graduate Tacoma (Kyle Roffler)
- Franklin Elementary School (especially its principal Ms. Kecia Keller)
- Joint Base Lewis McChord Department of Fish and Wildlife (Mr. Dennis Buckingham and interns)
- Discover U (especially DJ Cristostomo, the Pre-College Coordinator at UWT for organizing the event and Stewart Middle School for attending)
Lab
Dr. Nguyen and Ryan Brisbin supervised the wet lab work by providing training, guidance, and assistance to all the team members who took part in the wet labs.
Dr. John Finke from the University of Washington Tacoma allowed us to use his plate reader for the Interlab Study.
Many of the team members had the opportunity to work in the laboratory and learn how to perform experiments. These students include:
Keshava Katti, Kian Croston, Brendan Studebaker, Zoey Shisler, Kristina Ilyovska, Ian Gutierrez, and Jonathan Zacarias.
The dry lab work, involving Wiki coding and technological developments included
Jonathan Zacarias, Josh Grace, Kian Croston, Malik Mitchell, Trevor Lowe, and Ian Gutierrez.
Project Advisors
We are grateful to our team advisors
Dr. David Hirschberg, Dr. Matthew Lux, Dr. Peter Emanuel, Dr. Judy Nguyen, Mr. Ryan Brisbin, and Mrs. Amanda Galuszka who helped the team put the project together and provided the team with invaluable guidance and support.
