Attributions
Thanks to those that helped us along the way
Core Team
| Project Aspect | Primary Contributors |
| Model Design | Fiona Li, Rachel Lee, Matthew Fishcher |
| Model Cloning | Frank Ferrari, Fiona Li, Rachel Lee |
| Experimentation | Fiona Li, Rachel Lee, Frank Ferrari, Tadd Tripp, Eric Musa, Richelle Wilson, Angela Hsu, Olantunji Osobamiro, Josh Sodicoff, Chris Carpenter, Yongzhen Chen |
| Panel Event on Food waste and sustainability | Annabelle St. Pierre, Angela Hsu, Yongzhen Chen, Richelle Wilson |
| The Community of Food, Society & Justice Conference | Yongzhen Chen, Angela Hsu |
| Natural History Museum | Annabelle St. Pierre, Richelle Wilson, Angela Hsu, Olantunji Osobamiro, Khushboo Patel |
| Fundraising | Richelle Wilson, Eric Musa, Rachel Lee, Fiona Li, Khushboo Patel, |
| Wiki | William Chen, Fiona Li, Rachel Lee, Frank Ferrari, Tadd Tripp, Eric Musa, Richelle Wilson, Angela Hsu, Olantunji Osobamiro, Josh Sodicoff, Chris Carpenter, Yongzhen Chen, Annabelle St. Pierre, Ashely Hilyard, Shaunak Puri |
| Mathematical Modeling | Annabelle St. Pierre, Ashely Hilyard |
General Support
The University of Michigan’s Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology department and the Biomedical Engineering department for sponsoring our organization.
Dennis Drobeck for allowing us to use lab space in the Undergraduate Science Building on campus.
Our corporate sponsor, SnapGene, for providing us with software.
The Ann Arbor T-shirt Company for printing our team t-shirts.
Project Support and Advice
Anuj Kumar and Marcus Ammerlaan, our faculty advisors, for all their support in technical troubleshooting and overseeing the project while also giving us the independence of being student researchers.
Our alumni advisors, Matthew Fischer and Aaron Rengburg, for helping us with project design, wetlab work, and the team wiki.
Anthony Balistreri, our graduate student advisor, for all his support in technical troubleshooting, advice on application of quorum sensing, and general advice on wetlab work.
University of Michigan professor, John Wolfe for giving us advice and support in wet lab work.
Matthew Fletcher and Paul Williams from the University of Nottingham for their contribution to sharing the strain Chromobacterium violaceum CV026.
Project Inspiration
Team IIT Kharagpur for inspiring us to improve upon their project idea of creating a biosensor to detect food spoilage.
Team Groningen for inspiring us to incorporate chromoproteins as the reporter system to allow color visualization.
Presentation Coaching
The University of Michigan graduate students within the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology department for giving us advice on our presentation.
Fundraising Support
The University of Michigan’s Program in Biology, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology department, the Biomedical Engineering department, Biophysics department, Medical School Cellular and Molecular Biology, Medical School Department of Human Genetics, and the University of Michigan Public Healthfor providing us with funding.
The generous donors who helped fund our project through Experiment.com. Without them we would not be able to attend the competition.
Lab Support
Dennis Drobeck for providing us with materials and equipment.
Anuj Kumar and Marcus Ammerlaan for providing us with materials and reagents.
Human Practices Support
University of Michigan Professors, Lisa Bradshaw and Lesli Hoey, and Keith Soster from the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Systems Initiative for participating as speakers at our panel event.
University of Michigan Natural History Museum for hosting and helping us organize an event dedicated to educating young children and parents about synthetic biology and science.
A Final Thanks…
To each and every one of our 2019 team members for making a memorable experience and working hard to make this project possible!