Team:Georgia State/Attributions

GSU iGEM

Wet Lab

Amplify copies of pCB302-gfp-MDB plasmid Rehmat Babar and Chiara Brust
pCB302-gfp-MBD transformations into A. tumefaciens Rehmat Babar and Laura Das Neves
A. tumefaciens and Symbiodinium transformation Chiara Brust and Krithika Karunakaran
Symbiodinium electroporation transformations Chiara Brust, Krithika Karunakaran, Laura Das Neves, and Beenle Huang
O. marina electroporation transformations Chiara Brust, Krithika Karunakaran, Laura Das Neves, and Beenle Huang
Amplify copies of linearized Dino III GFP plasmid Rehmat Babar
Designing Codon optimized RFP Rehmat Babar
Creating Dino III RFP plasmid Rehmat Babar
Amplify copies of linearized Dino III RFP plasmid Rehmat Babar
Culturing Algae Kennex Lam and Sijia Qin
Characterization of kit plate parts Curry Wang, Vicky Lui, Yilin Lu, Jiayi Lan, Beenle Huang, Alun Guo, and Sijia Qin
Culturing Media Preparations Kennex Lam, Sijia Qin, Rehmat Babar, Alun Guo, and Yilin Lu
Microscopy Observations of Algae Kennex Lam, Sijia Qin, Chiara Brust, Krithika Karunakaran, Asma Khimani, and Rehmat Babar

Hardware

Light Array Saleh Alhassan
Algae House Laura Das Neves, Curry Wang, Yilin Lu, Alun Guo

Collaborations

We collaborated with the Lambert iGEM Team and the Florida State iGEM Team
Rehmat Babar, Krithika Karunakaran, Laura Das Neves, Kennex Lam, Asma Khimani, Saleh Alhassan, Curry Wang, Alun Guo, Vicky Lui, Yilin Lu, Jiayi Lan, Beenle Huang, Sijia Qin, Amirah Hurst, Chiara Brust

Outreach

Rehmat Babar, Krithika Karunakaran, Kennex Lam, Laura Das Neves, Asma Khimani, Saleh Alhassan, Shakira Thomas

Wiki

Rehmat Babar, Chiara Brust, Krithika Karunakaran, Laura Das Neves, Kennex Lam, Amirah Hurst, Asma Khimani, Saleh Alhassan

Advisors

We wouldn't be where we are without our amazing advisors!
  • Jessica Siemer helped us obtain our flow cytometry results, plate reader results, and helped us immensely with our wiki!
  • Amirah Hurst helped us with our fluorescence microscopy.
  • Art & Design

  • Thank you to Edwardo Martinez-Castillo (Student at School of Visual Arts in New York City) for creating our adorable algae illustrations.
  • Thank you to Dietrich Bumgarner (Freelance Animator on Fiverr.com) for providing us with an animation to illustrate the impact of coral loss
  • Our coral graphics were created using the scientific illustrations published by Ernst Haekel in Kunstformen der Natur in 1899. Haekel first proposed the kingdom Protista - the kingdom encompassing dinoflagellates -in 1866.
  • The nautical map that is used as our background is a excerpt from a chart created by George Gauld in the 1700s of the Florida Keys. Gauld's charts have been used recently to map the decline of reefs in Floridian waters. Read more here