Team:FSU/Attributions
Attributions
While much of the work done for Bartii was accomplished by the students,
we could not have gotten here without the help of so many advisors:
| Name | Role | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Lamia Arafa | Lab Technician | Worked on shipping genetic parts to iGEM HQ, ***Western Blots, Zonulin Cuff assays, and the development of the gliadin cuff*** |
| Taylor Bane | Accounting Specialist | Helped us to quickly buy plane tickets under a reimbursement assumption |
| Michael Blaber | Protein Engineering Advisor | Helpful feedback on the design of our solutions including suggestion of chassis and use of truncated membrane proteins. |
| Jonathan Dennis | Head of Lab and Molecular Biology Advisor | In addition to giving us lab space and letting us use the resources in his lab, he helped us decide on the assays we used, trained us in lab protocols, and helped us order resources for our experiments. |
| Ruth Didier | Molecular Biology Advisor | Flow Cytometry and ***Confocal Microscopy*** |
| Lisa Fowler | Account Manager | She managed our SRAD account, the account we used when making purchases related to research |
| Ron Frazier | Social Advisor | He helped organize socials and opened his house to our team and gave us a relaxing space to unwind. |
| John Gray | Advisor | Candid feedback and support throughout the summer |
| Samuel Grant | BMES Advisor | He helped us collaborate with the Biomedical Society Chapter at FSU, helped us with fundraising at FSU, and gave us candid feedback on our presentation. |
| Jesse Torres | Fundraising Advisor | *** |
| Sarishni Patel | *** | *** |
| Robert Potts | Project Management Advisor | He helped teach the basics of project management to help us develop a team structure and workflow. |
| Janine Welch | Account Manager | She helped manage our FSU Foundation account, and assisted us in timely reserving the hotel rooms |
| Cesar Rodriguez | Primary PI | He gave general support to the team, assisted in the team structure development, recruitment, helped develop the wiki, helped lead the fundraising effort, and gave candid feedback throughout the summer. |
| Emily Pritchard | Secondary PI | She gave general support to the team, assisted in the team structure development, recruitment, helped develop the book, scheduled the elementary school outreach, and gave candid feedback throughout the summer. |
Cesar
Rodriguez
Primary PI
Cesar Rodriguez started the iGEM team with support from the Provost. At the beginning of the 2017 Spring semester, he recruited iGEM members and advisors. After forming this team, he helped generate the team structure and workflow with the elected leaders, and continued showing support throughout the summer with candid feedback and supporting the fundraising effort. As we began to develop a solution to Celiac Disease, he performed a talk at one of FSU iGEM’s first public engagement activity with Moonshot Night. Now, as we are wrapping up our research, he has still been supporting the team by adding the parts to the registry, shipping out parts, and developing the skeleton of our wiki so that we can more easily learn HTML code. ***He also is developing the zonulin cuff and gliadin degrader. (This technically hasn't happened so should I put this?)***
Emily
Pritchard
Secondary PI
Emily Pritchard is the co-PI for the FSU iGEM team. While we were forced to choose a primary and secondary PI, her comments were taken just as seriously as Cesar's. At the beginning of this project, she was instrumental in developing the leaders of our team by discussing project management and connecting them with Robert Potts. She was instrumental in recruiting Erin Smyth, our designer for the team that is responsible for all the cartoon's on the poster and presentation. She assisted in fundraising on FSU campus and is a big reason we are able to come to the iGEM Jamboree. As a member of the Moonshot Florida Board of Directors, she helped organize iGEM’s first public engagement activity with Moonshot Night. While Savannah Shewan was leading the conversation in the discussion room, Emily was overseeing Cesar's talk. Additionally she helped organize the public engagement with an elementary classroom (where her son learns!) and helped us get our book into print. Finally, she has always given us candid feedback to better develop our deliverables and our workflow.
Jonathan
Dennis
Head of Lab and Molecular Biology Advisor
Jonathan Dennis is the Molecular Biology advisor for the team, but when we started this project we soon realized we didn't have a place to conduct our research. In response, he let us set up our experiments in his lab and even gave us his resources to conduct the research. More than just giving us his space, he continued to be a mentor for our Create team and taught them the techniques to use in the lab, helped us buy lab resources through VWR, and assisted in designing the analytic assays that we used.
Michael
Blaber
Protein Engineering Advisor
Michael Blaber is the protein engineering advisor for the team. At the beginning of the project, we came up with the three-module system and even decided on what proteins to use on the membrane, but the main issue was that these proteins were too large. He helped us refine our solution by using a truncated protein (keeping only the extracellular part). After this key suggestion early in the project, he continued to give feedback on our progress and helped us troubleshoot problems.
Lamia
Arafa
Lab Assistant
Lamia Arafa is a graduate student working under Cesar Rodriguez. She was instrumental in some last minute lab-work as we were coming down to the wire: shipping out parts to iGEM HQ, ***Western Blots, Zonulin Cuff assays, Gliadin Degrader development (again, this hasn't happened yet so should I mention it?)***
***Flow
Cytometry***
Flow Cytometry Owner
Gave us access to their Flow Cytometer for the Interlab Study
Ruth
Didier
Director of Flow Cytometry and Confocal Microscopy
Ruth Didier is the Director of Flow Cytometry and Confocal Microscopy at the Florida State University College of Medicine. In addition to giving us access to these resources for the Interlab Study **and the gliadin cuff**, she trained our Create group in how to use these resources.
Robert
Potts
Project Management Advisor
Robert Potts was our project management advisor that was recruited by Emily Pritchard. While we were still developing our team structure and workflow, he gave a lecture on the fundamentals of project management to the leaders of our team. This led to us developing a team charter, a plan for the summer work, and a division of labor into our three workgroups.
Ron
Frazier
Social Advisor
Ron Frazier specializes in entrepreneurship and business strategy. During the summer, he opened his house to us and gave us the space to relax and hang out and remind us that this project is about having fun while contributing to something larger than ourselves: the field of synthetic biology!
Janine
Welch
Account Manager
Janine Welch is the Assistant Dean at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and she is the manager of the FSU iGEM Foundation account. In addition to developing account summaries, she was instrumental in getting our Sheraton Boston reservations completed in time.
Lisa
Fowler
Account Manager
Lisa Fowler is the Office Administrator for the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering department within the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. She is the manager for our SRAD account. In addition to developing monthly reports for our account, she assisted us in quickly moving those funds to the necessary recipients.
Taylor
Bane
Accounting Specialist
Taylor Bane is the accounting specialist at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. He assisted us to timely purchase flights to Boston before the prices sharply increased.
Samuel
Grant
BMES Advisor
Samuel Grant is the Biomedical Engineering Society advisor. He helped lead a collaboration between the Biomedical Engineering Society FSU Chapter and the FSU iGEM team. This collaboration led to successful fundraising events from FSU, a wider audience to get presentation feedback, and will be a useful avenue for recruitment.
John
Gray
Advisor
John Gray graduated from Florida State University and decided to become an advisor rather than a participating member. Throughout the summer he helped take pictures for Moonshot Night and gave candid feedback for the poster, presentation, and wiki.
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Attributions***
Not sure
Jesse Torres, Sarishni Patel, All the Deans, Miranda Manning.
Add of a brief bio for each adviser in addition to how they helped the team?
