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+ | <div class="row"><div class="col"><div class="content-main"><h3 id="-project-determination-"><strong>Project Determination</strong></h3> | ||
+ | <p>At the beginning our team season, every member gets to present possible project ideas. Follow this initial meeting, we spend the next couple of weeks flushing out the ideas in groups in more detail, looking into primary literature, designing possible experiments, and sourcing required materials. We then present these ideas again before selecting the project. To select our team project this year, we wanted to conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis, so that we could come to a consensus in an efficient and fair manner.</p> | ||
+ | <p>To achieve this, we created a template for project selection that we used to evaluate all of our potential projects. The assessments were based on the criteria described in the iGEM judging guide, project assessment documentation from previous iGEM teams’ wikis, and anything else we felt is was import to evaluate.</p> | ||
+ | <p>Each team member was asked to score different qualities of the project (novelty, feasibility, interest, applications, and usefulness) and back up their quantitative evaluation with written comments. With the diverse disciplines amongst our team, we received input from a science, mathematics, engineering and business perspective. This analysis was then presented to our advisors to ensure that we had not overlooked any relevant aspect in our consideration.</p> | ||
+ | <p>Below we have included our general guide template with the justification for our choices in criteria, as well as our team’s evaluation of all the projects we pitched. This evaluation resulting in our team’s selection of this year’s project, the functional prion project now called: Prions be Lit - Functional Amyloid as a Biological Tool.</p> | ||
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+ | <h3 id="-project-selection-guide-"><strong>Project Selection Guide</strong></h3> | ||
+ | <h3 id="-primary-criteria-evaluates-the-viability-of-a-project-"><strong>Primary Criteria: evaluates the viability of a project</strong></h3> | ||
<h4 id="-novelty-"><strong>Novelty</strong></h4> | <h4 id="-novelty-"><strong>Novelty</strong></h4> | ||
− | <p> | + | <p>If the proposed project was likely to fall under the Foundational Advance track, we added an additional primary criteria. The basis of this track is to develop novel solutions to technical problems, thus the novelty of the project was one of the priorities.</p> |
<h4 id="-feasibility-"><strong>Feasibility</strong></h4> | <h4 id="-feasibility-"><strong>Feasibility</strong></h4> | ||
− | <p>When developing project ideas, teams must also consider the amount of resources available to them. It is important to be able to achieve their goals with | + | <p>When developing project ideas, teams must also consider the amount of resources available to them. It is important to be able to achieve their goals with the resources, time, and technical abilities they have to ensure the project is completed and finished on time.</p> |
− | <h3 id="-secondary-criteria-evaluates- | + | <h3 id="-secondary-criteria-evaluates-benefits-of-selecting-a-particular-idea-as-an-igem-project-"><strong>Secondary Criteria: evaluates benefits of selecting a particular idea as an iGEM project.</strong></h3> |
<h4 id="-interest-"><strong>Interest</strong></h4> | <h4 id="-interest-"><strong>Interest</strong></h4> | ||
− | <p>The level of interest amongst the members in a project is valuable as a teams with a greater interest in their project are like more likely to excel and be successful </p> | + | <p>The level of interest amongst the members in a project is valuable as a teams with a greater interest in their project are like more likely to excel and be successful.</p> |
<h4 id="-applicability-of-the-team-"><strong>Applicability of the team</strong></h4> | <h4 id="-applicability-of-the-team-"><strong>Applicability of the team</strong></h4> | ||
− | <p>It is important to select a project that will enable all subteams | + | <p>It is important to select a project that will enable all subteams to contribute to the project and fulfill medal criteria.</p> |
<h4 id="-usefulness-"><strong>Usefulness</strong></h4> | <h4 id="-usefulness-"><strong>Usefulness</strong></h4> | ||
− | <p> | + | <p>How useful the project is and how it may impact society (the degree of stakeholder benefit and how many stakeholders would gain this benefit).</p> |
− | <p>Following the team analysis, the project proposals were presented to advisors from | + | <p>Following the team analysis, the project proposals were presented to advisors from the University of Waterloo’s Faculties of Biology and Math. Advisors from the University of Waterloo Faculty of Biology: Brian Ingalls, Trevor Charles, Barbara Moffatt, Andrew Doxey, and Forbes Burkowski. Their feedback and expertise was acknowledged and factored into our project decision as well.</p> |
<h3 id="-criteria-weighting-out-of-5-"><strong>Criteria Weighting (out of 5)</strong></h3> | <h3 id="-criteria-weighting-out-of-5-"><strong>Criteria Weighting (out of 5)</strong></h3> | ||
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<td><b>Feasibility </b> <br> <ul> <li> Do we have the resources? </li> <li> Do we have the experience? </li> </ul></td> | <td><b>Feasibility </b> <br> <ul> <li> Do we have the resources? </li> <li> Do we have the experience? </li> </ul></td> | ||
− | <td><ul> <li> 90% feasibility 7/10 or higher </li> <li> Potential roadblock: not enough experience with yeast? </li> <li> Profs will be around to help us learn </li> <li> Last year’s project worked with prions, so we have experience with prions </li> <li> High chance of working </li> </ul> </td> | + | <td><ul> <li> 90% feasibility 7/10 or higher </li> <li> Potential roadblock: not enough experience with yeast? </li> <li> Profs will be around to help us learn </li> <li> Last year’s project worked with prions, so we have experience with prions </li> <li> High chance of working </li> </ul></td> |
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<td><b> Novelty </b> <br> <ul> <li> Did we build on other ideas? </li> </ul></td> | <td><b> Novelty </b> <br> <ul> <li> Did we build on other ideas? </li> </ul></td> | ||
− | <td><ul> <li> The idea to specifically apply prion domain to other protein is something new in our understanding </li> <li> We have previously worked with prions in 2016, but not exclusively on the prion domains </li> </ul> </td> | + | <td><ul> <li> The idea to specifically apply prion domain to other protein is something new in our understanding </li> <li> We have previously worked with prions in 2016, but not exclusively on the prion domains </li> </ul></td> |
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<td><b> Novelty </b> <br> <ul> <li> Did we build on other ideas? </li> </ul></td> | <td><b> Novelty </b> <br> <ul> <li> Did we build on other ideas? </li> </ul></td> | ||
− | <td><ul> <li> This project was inspired by Wageningen university 2013 iGEM team </li> </ul> </td> | + | <td><ul> <li> This project was inspired by Wageningen university 2013 iGEM team </li> </ul></td> |
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<td><b> Impact/Usefulness/Why are we doing it? </b> <br> <ul> <li> Economic </li> <li> Societal </li> <li> Environmental </li> <li> Ethical </li> <li> Material </li> <li> Emotional </li> </ul> <br> Consider both positive and negative impacts</td> | <td><b> Impact/Usefulness/Why are we doing it? </b> <br> <ul> <li> Economic </li> <li> Societal </li> <li> Environmental </li> <li> Ethical </li> <li> Material </li> <li> Emotional </li> </ul> <br> Consider both positive and negative impacts</td> | ||
− | <td><ul> <li> Having to take samples and manually run tests for gene expression is a huge pain </li> <li> Last year, one of the biggest problems we had was our limited data due to this restraint </li> <li> When you don’t have enough data, it’s hard to confidently predict what is happening in your system </li> <li> This project would make it significantly easier to collect large amounts of continuous data on gene expression which would be <em>extremely</em> useful for a huge number of synbio experiments </li> </ul> </td> | + | <td><ul> <li> Having to take samples and manually run tests for gene expression is a huge pain </li> <li> Last year, one of the biggest problems we had was our limited data due to this restraint </li> <li> When you don’t have enough data, it’s hard to confidently predict what is happening in your system </li> <li> This project would make it significantly easier to collect large amounts of continuous data on gene expression which would be <em>extremely</em> useful for a huge number of synbio experiments </li> </ul></td> |
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<td><b> Alternative </b> <br> <ul> <li> Is there another more efficient/better way to go about solving the problem? </li> </ul></td> | <td><b> Alternative </b> <br> <ul> <li> Is there another more efficient/better way to go about solving the problem? </li> </ul></td> | ||
− | <td><ul> <li> Measurement of LuxI - how does one know what the protein of interest is doing? (either fuse our protein of interest to LuxI or get the same promoter to control LuxI expression and the expression of protein of interest, but in the latter case we don’t know about protein degradation of our protein of interest, and the former is harder to do) </li> </ul> </td> | + | <td><ul> <li> Measurement of LuxI - how does one know what the protein of interest is doing? (either fuse our protein of interest to LuxI or get the same promoter to control LuxI expression and the expression of protein of interest, but in the latter case we don’t know about protein degradation of our protein of interest, and the former is harder to do) </li> </ul></td> |
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<td><b> Description of Project </b> <br> <ul> <li> What kind of problem are we solving? </li> <li>How are we doing it? </li> </ul></td> | <td><b> Description of Project </b> <br> <ul> <li> What kind of problem are we solving? </li> <li>How are we doing it? </li> </ul></td> | ||
− | <td><ul> <li> Ability for the bacteria to move throughout the body (flagella) </li> <li> Ability to externally control the movement of bacteria </li> <li> Specific apoptosis targeting of cancerous cells only </li> <li> Ability to detect the bacteria </li> <li> How to do this? Use mgFRN as a transcription factor to express a gene of interest </li> <li> Cytotic gene only turned on during low oxygen levels </li> <li> As tumor shrinks, levels of O2 increase turning off our system </li> </ul> </td> | + | <td><ul> <li> Ability for the bacteria to move throughout the body (flagella) </li> <li> Ability to externally control the movement of bacteria </li> <li> Specific apoptosis targeting of cancerous cells only </li> <li> Ability to detect the bacteria </li> <li> How to do this? Use mgFRN as a transcription factor to express a gene of interest </li> <li> Cytotic gene only turned on during low oxygen levels </li> <li> As tumor shrinks, levels of O2 increase turning off our system </li> </ul></td> |
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<td><b> Impact/Usefulness/Why are we doing it? </b> <br> <ul> <li> Economic </li> <li> Societal </li> <li> Environmental </li> <li> Ethical </li> <li> Material </li> <li> Emotional </li> </ul> <br> Consider both positive and negative impacts</td> | <td><b> Impact/Usefulness/Why are we doing it? </b> <br> <ul> <li> Economic </li> <li> Societal </li> <li> Environmental </li> <li> Ethical </li> <li> Material </li> <li> Emotional </li> </ul> <br> Consider both positive and negative impacts</td> | ||
− | <td><ul> <li> The magnetic properties could be utilized to improve targeted delivery of drugs </li> <li> This will be promising in the treatment of on-site diseases such as cancer, infection </li> </ul> </td> | + | <td><ul> <li> The magnetic properties could be utilized to improve targeted delivery of drugs </li> <li> This will be promising in the treatment of on-site diseases such as cancer, infection </li> </ul></td> |
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<td><b> Alternative </b> <br> <ul> <li> Is there another more efficient/better way to go about solving the problem? </li> </ul></td> | <td><b> Alternative </b> <br> <ul> <li> Is there another more efficient/better way to go about solving the problem? </li> </ul></td> | ||
− | <td><ul> <li> No viable alternatives discussed </li> </ul> </td> | + | <td><ul> <li> No viable alternatives discussed </li> </ul></td> |
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− | <th>Zika </th> | + | <th>Zika</th> |
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<td><b>Interest/Applicability to Subteam </b> <br> <ul> <li> Personal opinions </li> </ul></td> | <td><b>Interest/Applicability to Subteam </b> <br> <ul> <li> Personal opinions </li> </ul></td> | ||
− | <td><ul> <li> 83.4% interest 7/10 or more </li> <li> 73.4% applicable to subteam 7/10 or more </li> </ul> </td> | + | <td><ul> <li> 83.4% interest 7/10 or more </li> <li> 73.4% applicable to subteam 7/10 or more </li> </ul></td> |
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<td><b> Impact/Usefulness/Why are we doing it? </b> <br> <ul> <li> Economic </li> <li> Societal </li> <li> Environmental </li> <li> Ethical </li> <li> Material </li> <li> Emotional </li> </ul> <br> Consider both positive and negative impacts</td> | <td><b> Impact/Usefulness/Why are we doing it? </b> <br> <ul> <li> Economic </li> <li> Societal </li> <li> Environmental </li> <li> Ethical </li> <li> Material </li> <li> Emotional </li> </ul> <br> Consider both positive and negative impacts</td> | ||
− | <td><ul> <li> Protect people in Latin American countries from being infected with zika virus without harming the mosquito population and surrounding ecosystem </li> <li> Deployment is intuitive and fast to implement with closed off bodies of water and pellets of yeast thrown into </li> </ul> </td> | + | <td><ul> <li> Protect people in Latin American countries from being infected with zika virus without harming the mosquito population and surrounding ecosystem </li> <li> Deployment is intuitive and fast to implement with closed off bodies of water and pellets of yeast thrown into </li> </ul></td> |
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− | <p>In conclusion, the Waterloo iGEM 2017 team has decided to select the engineered prion project for this year. </p> | + | <p><strong>In conclusion, the Waterloo iGEM 2017 team has decided to select the engineered prion project for this year.</strong></p> |
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HP Silver
Project Determination
At the beginning our team season, every member gets to present possible project ideas. Follow this initial meeting, we spend the next couple of weeks flushing out the ideas in groups in more detail, looking into primary literature, designing possible experiments, and sourcing required materials. We then present these ideas again before selecting the project. To select our team project this year, we wanted to conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis, so that we could come to a consensus in an efficient and fair manner.
To achieve this, we created a template for project selection that we used to evaluate all of our potential projects. The assessments were based on the criteria described in the iGEM judging guide, project assessment documentation from previous iGEM teams’ wikis, and anything else we felt is was import to evaluate.
Each team member was asked to score different qualities of the project (novelty, feasibility, interest, applications, and usefulness) and back up their quantitative evaluation with written comments. With the diverse disciplines amongst our team, we received input from a science, mathematics, engineering and business perspective. This analysis was then presented to our advisors to ensure that we had not overlooked any relevant aspect in our consideration.
Below we have included our general guide template with the justification for our choices in criteria, as well as our team’s evaluation of all the projects we pitched. This evaluation resulting in our team’s selection of this year’s project, the functional prion project now called: Prions be Lit - Functional Amyloid as a Biological Tool.
Project Selection Guide
Primary Criteria: evaluates the viability of a project
Novelty
If the proposed project was likely to fall under the Foundational Advance track, we added an additional primary criteria. The basis of this track is to develop novel solutions to technical problems, thus the novelty of the project was one of the priorities.
Feasibility
When developing project ideas, teams must also consider the amount of resources available to them. It is important to be able to achieve their goals with the resources, time, and technical abilities they have to ensure the project is completed and finished on time.
Secondary Criteria: evaluates benefits of selecting a particular idea as an iGEM project.
Interest
The level of interest amongst the members in a project is valuable as a teams with a greater interest in their project are like more likely to excel and be successful.
Applicability of the team
It is important to select a project that will enable all subteams to contribute to the project and fulfill medal criteria.
Usefulness
How useful the project is and how it may impact society (the degree of stakeholder benefit and how many stakeholders would gain this benefit).
Following the team analysis, the project proposals were presented to advisors from the University of Waterloo’s Faculties of Biology and Math. Advisors from the University of Waterloo Faculty of Biology: Brian Ingalls, Trevor Charles, Barbara Moffatt, Andrew Doxey, and Forbes Burkowski. Their feedback and expertise was acknowledged and factored into our project decision as well.
Criteria Weighting (out of 5)
Interest - /2 Application to Subteam - /3 Novelty - /5 *For Foundational Advancements only Usefulness - /2 Impact - /2 Feasibility - / 5
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Criteria | Magnetic Bacteria |
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Conclusion:
In conclusion, the Waterloo iGEM 2017 team has decided to select the engineered prion project for this year.