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 | Shipping genetic parts to iGEM HQ, ***Western Blots, Zonulin Cuff assays, and the development of the gliadin cuff*** |
| Taylor Bane | Accounting Specialist | Timely plane tickets purchases |
| Michael Blaber | Protein Engineering Advisor | Design feedback |
| Jonathan Dennis | Head of Lab and Molecular Biology Advisor | Training, mentoring, and access to lab space |
| Ruth Didier | Director of Flow Cytometry and Confocal Microscopy | Access to Flow Cytometry and ***Confocal Microscopy*** |
| Lisa Fowler | Account Manager | SRAD account manager |
| Ron Frazier | Social Advisor | Organized socials |
| John Gray | Advisor | Candid feedback |
| Samuel Grant | BMES Advisor | Biomedical Society Chapter at FSU collaboration, fundraising support, and presentation feedback |
| Jesse Torres | Fundraising Advisor | *** |
| Sarishni Patel | *** | *** |
| Robert Potts | Project Management Advisor | Project management education and team structure development |
| Janine Welch | Account Manager | FSU Foundation account manager |
| Cesar Rodriguez | Primary PI | General support, team structure development, recruitment, wiki development, fundraising assistance, and candid feedback |
| Emily Pritchard | Secondary PI | General support to the team, team structure development, recruitment, book printing, community involvement assistance, and candid feedback |
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.
Jesse
Torres
Advisor
***
Sarishni
Patel
Advisor
***
