Team:McMasterU/Attributions
McMasterU
Attributions
Each team must clearly attribute work done by the student team members on this page. The team must distinguish work done by the students from work done by others, including the host labs, advisors, instructors, and individuals not on the team roster.
This is a bronze medal requirement. Please see the Medals requirements page for more details.
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.
Categories of Support
- General Support
General support must go towards all our team members, mentors and executives who have made this entire venture possible for McMasterU's iGEM team. Thanks also goes towards our faculty advisors, lab techs and PIs for their support in terms of lab access, training and mentorship.
- Project support and advice
Project suppport and advice must be accredited to the mentors and department heads who facilitated the project design. Special thanks to Damian Tran, Tony Chen, Rayu Bhatt, Melodie Kim, Dhanyasri Maddiboina, and
- Fundraising help and advice
Karanbir Brar, Murtuza Rajkotwala, and integrated HP members have helped widely with garnering sponsorships outside of student union funds, while Maxwell Ng, Yosef Ellenbogen, Jinny Lee and Angela Dong have helped with receiving university student union funds.
- Lab support
Lab support has been generously provided for by Dr. Yingfu Li in providing the primary lab for our summer epxeriments while Dr. Rosa da Silva provided the lab facilities for training of the wet lab members. Various graduate students working in the Li Lab at the time of our experimentation also provided valuable input and project mentorship. Such grad students include Dingran Chang, Jim Gu, Thomas Chang, Shahrzad and Wenqing.
- Difficult technique support
- Project advisor support
Project advisor support is credited to our advisor Tony He Tian Chen as well as to our wet lab mentor Damian Tran for their work on the design and troubleshooting of various aspects of the project.
- Wiki support
Wiki support is credited to Ian Fare and Eva Liu, the dry lab heads, as well as to the dry lab team comprised of Maggie Hou, Siddarth Reed, Judy Chen, and Biren Dave. Contributions towards the entries in our wiki were donated from all members of the club.
- Presentation coaching
Presentation coaching was done by Tony He Tian Chen, Jinny Lee, and non-club affiliated students of the McMaster health science faculty who provided feedback and advice on presentation style.
- Human Practices support
Human practices was largely supported by the members of the human practices team (Fatima Sheikh, Krish Bilimoria, Christina Machon, Aline-Claire Huynh) led by former HP head Jinny Lee and current HP head Rachael Gregoris.
- Thanks and acknowledgements for all other people involved in helping make a successful iGEM team
Difficult technique support was carried out on the wet lab side by Dingran Chang in the ligation of the DNAzyme fluorophore. Difficult technique support was also carried out by Wenqing and Shahrzad for other wet lab projects, most notably for the development of the Tcdc plasmid.
Inspiration
Take a look at what other teams have done:
- 2011 Imperial College London (scroll to the bottom)
- 2014 Exeter
- 2014 Melbourne
- 2014 Valencia Biocampus
Team training and Project start
Tell us if your institution teaches an iGEM or synthetic biology class and when you started your project: No our institution did not have iGEM curriculum or a synthetic biology class at the time of our project's start
- Does your institution teach an iGEM or synthetic biology course? No
- When did you start this course? N/A
- Are the syllabus and course materials freely available online?N/A
- When did you start your brainstorming?We started our brainstorming in February of 2017.
- When did you start in the lab?We started training in March in the lab and started on our actual project in early June.
- When did you start working on your project? We started working on our project in late May and was in the lab starting in June.
