Team:LACAS BioBots/Attributions
Attributions
HighLights
Our Team
Muhammad Shaheer Niazi: Our team leader, Shaheer, was one of the founders of the first ever high school team from Pakistan and this year was the founder of our project Project Saffora and guided us in wet lab, registration process and the outreach Multan trip.
Muhammad Marsad Siddique: Marsad was also the founder of the previous year’s LACAS iGEM team. This year he mainly led our entire human practices, dealing with the SynBio Summer School held at LACAS and presentations at other schools (education and public engagement). He also dealt with the Boston trip agenda.
Zainab Mudassar: Zainab is the incharge of our wet lab. She mostly did all the practical lab work, organized and led a lab tour for the students attending the SynBio summer school and briefed them about different equipment and procedures. She also compiled all the work done on all frontiers (HP, outreach, collaboration) and helped in wiki freeze
Abdul Rehman Baig: Baig is the incharge of our wiki. He compiled all the work done in all departments and transferred it to the wiki via long, cumbersome coding. He worked throughout the wiki freeze, gathering pictures for the galleries, uploading videos, making tables and formatting his way through the IGEM servers.
Third Parties
All wet lab work was carried out by team members at the Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB) in Punjab University which was made accessible to us thanks to Dr.Athar Osama of the Pakistan Innovations foundation (PIF) and the Director of CEMB. We are also thankful to our school (Lahore College for Arts and Sciences) for paying off 4500$ of the registration fee and supporting our endeavor in registering the only High school team of Pakistan.
Special thanks to our mentor from CMUQ, Mr. Saad Rasool, in guiding us throughout the process and mentoring us on how to achieve our agenda and the IGEM Ambassador for Asia, Mr. Hassnain Qasim Bokhari for explaining the criteria and giving a presentation about iGEM at our synbio summer school.
WetLab
Our Team
Humza Hassan Khan: helped in the mathematical calculations of the ingredients and proportions
Mariam Tauqeer: mostly did the research on how to complete a certain motive and how to go on with the project itself.
Rahma Arshad: she traditionally planted all the safflower seeds in her home, took care of them and made logs of their growth.
Shehryar Siddiq: He was the one who could do everything very precisely and accurately so he focused on basic measurements of ingredients and/or solutions.
Saad Khan: had a good eye so got everything the lab people wanted from different labs such as equipment and different chemicals.
Usama Javaid: always had his car ready and would drive the lab people from college to our lab whenever needed so transportation was never a problem. Also one of our media people, as he photographed all the BTS and lab work.
Mahnoor Umair: helped in practical lab work and research
Sadaf Habib: helped in practical lab work
Zainab Arshad: helped in practical lab work
Third Parties
Lab supervisor: Dr.Bushra Rasheed for giving us a space in her lab and providing for us necessary materials and resources.
Lab training: Sir Moon Sajid or giving us biosafety training and general assistance and guidance for performing protocols.
Material: Thanks to NEB for granting us the BioBrick kit of enzymes and DH5alpha and to PHILCO ltd for shipping it to us safely and on time.
Human Practices
Our Team
Faizan Qureshi: led our marketing and sponsorship department and helped us organize a meeting with Minister of Science and Technology.
Muhammad Owais Sabri: worked on writing different articles, finding external links for the project and operating our online social presence.
Minal Ibrahim Qureshi: was in our writing team and helped us jot down various articles over time. She was also in art/poster design.
Minahil Shehzad: in our outreach program, Minahil conducted interviews for our videos.
Zainab Farhan: Zainab also conducted interviews for public engagement.
Numan Abid: was in management team of SynBio summer school and designed certificates for attendees.
Third Parties
Synthetic Biology workshop: Thanks to our college for providing us a venue to host two weeks of synbio workshop for students during summer.
Multan Trip: Fatima Farooq for managing our brochures and business cards to be distributed on the day of fair.
Media
Ibraheem Omer: the eyes to the body that is the spectator of LACAS BioBots. He took the pictures which were uploaded on our Instagram page.
Halima Ahmed Khan: working alongside Ibraheem, she was the core component of our team and helped us in shooting videos for our interview and promotions.
Wiki
Our Team
Special thanks to Muneeb Sultan for being a massive aid in the wiki, consistently reaching out to make sure I didn't need help and being a massive emotional support.
Another bundle of thanks to Tanzeel Faisal, for similarly being an invaluable aid in the wiki and a wonderful friend.
Third Parties
Finally, my extended gratitude to Tauqeer Haider for building the site design base up, and helping me figure out stuff I couldn't have hoped to figure out myself.