Attributions
Our Team
Douglas Tay, Team Lead and Head of Demonstration. Performed wet lab experiments for RNA Editing and demonstrating the correction of pathogenic alleles in HCT116. Presented our project at the Life Hacks! 2.0 event. Prepared samples for Macquarie iGEM collaboration. 1/2 of the Wiki coding team.
Teo Seok Yee, Team Co-lead and Head of Mutation-Internal project. Performed wet lab experiments for Rx-Internal and Demonstration. Designed posters for education and outreach with NUS and images for the wiki. Prepared samples for Macquarie iGEM collaboration. 1/2 of the Wiki coding team.
Liew Kai Shin, Publicity Lead. Obtained sponsorships for our projects and managed our social media accounts. Performed wet lab experiments for RNA Editing and Open/Structured projects.
Jules Ng, Outreach Lead. Liaised with other iGEM teams for collaboration and arranged interview sessions with professionals (doctors & academics). Performed wet lab experiments for RNA Editing and Open/Structured projects.
Ge Xiao Yu, Head of Mutation and Open/Structured projects. Performed wet lab experiments for these projects. Presented our project posters at the Life Hacks! 2.0 event.
Common role: Everyone was involved in human practices (survey design and interview with academics).
Our Advisors
We thank the following people for their guidance and insights into our project.
Asst Prof Tan Meng How, Principal Investigator. Held regular meetings with the team to keep us on track. Suggested directions and critique on our project design.
Ooi Kean Hean, Advisor. Provided invaluable advice throughout our project and troubleshooting. Aided in assembling the various constructs. Performed analysis on our deep sequencing results.
Ivy Liu Kai Wen, Advisor. Provided reagents and protocols for luciferase assay.
Wang Yuan Ming, Advisor. Designed the gRNAs and optimised gRNA lengths for our RNA editing project.
Our Sponsors
We thank the following sponsors for their kind assistance in providing us with materials and reagents for our iGEM project.
NTU SCBE and A*STAR (GIS), for their funding of our project.
Axil Scientific, for their sponsorship of 150 single pass sequencing reactions under 1st BASE.
New England Biolabs, for their sponsorship of NEBuilder® HiFi DNA Assembly Master Mix, Q5® High-Fidelity 2X Master Mix, and Quick-Load® Purple 1kb Plus DNA Ladder.
Promega, for providing us with S$2000 worth of reagents, including the GoScript™ Reverse Transcriptase Mix and Blue/Orange Loading Dye, 6X.
SnapGene, for providing our team and advisors with licenses for full versions of their software.