All members of the Purdue iGEM club as well as summer team took part in the project ideation. Ideas were presented and later voted on by club members. The final idea was then presented to faculty advisor Dr. Kevin Solomon and vetted by him.
All members assisted in conducting wet lab procedures. Julianne Dejoie, Ben Howard, and Morgan Carrithers along with the assistance of graduate advisors of Solomon Lab primarily led wet lab experiments and documented the results and data.
All members assisted with research regarding experimental design and protocols. Julianne Dejoie and the graduate students of Solomon Lab developed and finalized all protocols for wet-lab experiments. Experimental designs were presented to faculty advisors Dr. Mohit Verma and Dr. Kevin Solomon during weekly meetings. Faculty advisers along with their graduate students provided feedback.
Every week, team members put together presentations to present to faculty advisors Dr. Mohit Verma and Dr. Kevin Solomon. During these presentations, the faculty advisors along with their graduate students provide feedback on the wiki, the project itself, and the presentation.
Madhu Prakash primarily led Wiki development. Sarah Liu and Purdue iGEM member Ana Stenstrom worked on the illustrations on the main page as well as logo images. Also, special thanks to Purdue iGEM member Xander Weintraut and the coders of RHIT iGEM for helping with coding and troubleshooting throughout the development process.
Sarah Liu mainly handled logistics regarding in-person meetings or video calls that took place with other iGEM teams and field professionals, and the rest of the members of the team participated in them. We would like to thank Dr. Chenglin Yao, Dr. Morris Levy, and Pablo Vega for giving their time to talk to us and expertise in their fields. We would also like to thank Ruben Lopez for the opportunity to show high schoolers how much synthetic biology matters to the world!
