Team:Calgary/Attributions
Attributions
Accomplishements
Over January to April our team got together for the first time over weekly meetings. As the majority of our team had no synthetic biology or iGEM experience, we spent a lot of this time just learning about what synthetic biology is and how it works, as well as what iGEM is. Over this period, our mentors (composed of some 2016 iGEM team members) held presentations to explain the parts registry, what human practices entails, wiki requirements, and general iGEM advice. At this point we also began looking into previous team's projects to get an idea of what is possible, and brainstorming possible project ideas. A portion of this time was also dedicated to each team member acquiring research funding for the summer.
In mid March, we decided on pursuing PHB production from E. coli to be used in wastewater systems, and the rest is history. Despite taking a large portion of April off for exams, we were able to form subgroups for the team as well as do some literature search about our proposed methods to get a better idea of what our project will entail. In May, we began working full time, splitting our work between the lab, literature research, as well as all the other iGEM requirements such as human practices, fundraising, public engagement and wiki design.
This is a paragraph about what the team accomplished!
General Support
Dr. Mayi Arcellana-Panlilio:
Dr. Elke Monika Lohmeier-Vogel:
Rachelle Varga:
David Feehan:
Bruce Ramsay & Polyferm:
Syed Jafri, David Nguyen, Sid Goutam, Nilesh Sharma, Elena Fekete, Nishi Patel: All members of the 2016 UCalgary team. They helped with the initial brainstorming of our project, general advice, and gave us need to know iGEM tutorials. These included how to use the parts registry, how to set up the wiki, fundraising suggestions, and possible contacts that we may find useful.
Synthesis & Secretion Support
Dr. Isabelle Barrette-Ng: Assisted with troubleshooting transformation experiments, and also gave advice for proper cloning protocols.
Dr. Sui-Lam Wong: Donated BL21(DE3) strain of E. coli to use as our chassis.
Dr. Richard Moore Donated competent E. coli DH5𝛼 and protocol to make our own competent DH5𝛼.
Process Support
Dr. Nashaat Nassar:
Matthew Bamsey: Advised
Dr. Peter Dunfield:
Christine Sharp, Marc Strous and the Solar Biocells Lab: Let us use HPLC! Woo!
Wiki Support
Patrick Wu:
Modelling Support
Dr. Justin MacCallum:
Dr. Jason de Koning:
Dr. Ian Lewis:
Human Practices Support
Chris Hadfield:
Derek Thomas:
Carol Nelson:
Pascal Lee:
Marko Markicevic:
Minds in Motion:
Pine Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant:
Biology Graduate Student Association and Beakerhead:
Telus Spark:
Team Involvement
Alexandra Ivanova: I organized summer camps.
Alina Kunitskaya: I talked about space.
Amy Chen: I came in late.
Atika Ibrahim: I played foosball.
Bilal Sher: I was the driver.
Helen Wang: I talked about KPop.
Jacob Grangier: I actually did work.
Kaitlin Schaaf: I looked at sloths.
Lalit Bharadwaj: I played rugby.
Maliyat Aniqa Noor: I ate chips.
Michaela Olsakova: I wore a lot of dresses.
Preetha Gopalakrishnan: I told facts.
Sam Wilton-Clark: I longboarded.
Tricia Lim: I made cool graphics.
