Team:SIS Korea/Attributions
Individual Contributions
Michelle Ahn
As the leader of the team, Michelle took care of most of the administrative work such as arranging collaborations with other teams or connecting the team with the school. As part of the bio team, she participated in lab work but also participated in the school campaign and the middle school education program.
Angela Ahn
Angela acted as one of the team co-leaders and was in charge of the communication between the team instructors and students, relaying our instructors’ advice to the team. She also participated in various lab work, human practices such as the elementary school education program or the school campaign, collaboration meetups, and interviews.
Joshua Nam
As a team co-leader of the biology division, Joshua has primarily been a part of the lab work and the scientific components of our project, but he has also participated in human practices such as some of the presentation projects, like the middle school education program, or the school campaign. He has also been a part of collaboration meetups.
Jisue Shin
Ji Sue has contributed mainly to human practices, conducting multiple interviews with professors and designing posters. She took part in the elementary school education program and assisted the middle school education program. She was also in charge of the logo design process, coordinating with others to come up with a design.
Youngbo Sohn
Youngbo Sohn was mainly responsible for the website part of the project. Youngbo has a lot of experience with web designing and app building, and he used this to set up the basic framework of the website. He has also contributed to the school campaign, and the prototype design process.
Sunmin Lee
Sunmin Lee mainly participated in the biology portion of the project, taking part in the experiments frequently. She also participated in other activities relating to human practices like the kindergarten education program and the school campaign. She also took part in interviews with professionals and was present during the collaboration meetups.
Eunseok Kim
Angela(Eunseok) Kim actively contributed to both the biology and human practices portions of our project. She was frequently involved in the lab experiments. She also actively participated in the campaigns and educational presentations, specifically the middle school education program, the school campaign, and the website design process.
Wooseok Kim
Wooseok Kim contributed to the iGem team by mainly focusing on biology labs, human practice activities like the kindergarten education program or interviews with professionals, collaboration meetups, and designing the logo. He also worked on the prototype, taking part in Arduino based experiments which involved making and coding the prototype machine.
Jiho Park
Jiho (Jason) Park took part in the biology laboratory work, and also participated in human practices, including visits to the kindergarten and elementary school, where he helped share information about the plastic problem and our project. He also worked on the prototype, where he helped with building the model and programming it.
Evan Kim
Evan Kim mainly contributed to the Human Practices portion of our project. He actively contributed to the street campaigns by helping the team create posters and banners to convey information to others. Moreover, he has also participated in the laboratory work to some extent and took part in the Kindergarten education program and the school campaign.
Instructors
Chris Koester
Mr. Koester, our AP Biology teacher, helped us understand the mechanisms of our project, and regularly provided us feedback as to how we could refine our product. His instructions and educational activities proved essential in the construction of the base foundations of our project. He also provided us access to the school laboratory in which we could conduct basic experiments such as checking the rate of plastic degradation.
Myung Chul Song
Our instructor Mr. Song guided us on the majority of biology related processes and provided us help on the vast majority of the wet lab procedures, including miniprep, cloning, etc. He also helped us find and build the parts that we needed for our project and took charge of explaining the functions of each component of our product.
Advisors
Prof. Ching Taek Han
Prof. Ching Taek Han of Sokang University provided us with a laboratory for us to work in throughout the summer break, and instructed us on the procedures of various necessary processes such as cloning the bacteria during the earlier months of our project.
Jongwoo Kim
As the representative of PSI Science Center, Mr. Kim provided us access to the PSI Science Center laboratories which we could access more frequently. He also gave us basic feedback on how to improve the accuracy and precision of our experimental procedure.
Eunlak Kim
Researcher Kim of KAIST university helped us with the technical aspects of our experiments, such as explaining how to use various equipment of the laboratory like the spectrophotometer.
Young Don Park
Professor Park Young Don of Incheon University explained to us the properties of plastic and what to consider in the making of our project, and provided us with equipment for SEM microscopy and AFM microscopy which we used to verify the efficacy of our product.
Yoonki Joo
Researcher Yoonki Joo of Yale University helped us with many technical procedures such as microscopy or plastic staining.
Dongwoo Kim
Johns Hopkins graduate Dongwoo Kim advised us on the wiring and construction of our prototype device.
Additional Feedback
Dr. Uwe Bornscheuer, professor of biotechnology and enzyme catalysis at the University of Greifswald in Greifswald, Germany.
Provided great insight on current research done on the topic of PET-degrading bacteria, the research process involved in the development of such bacteria, and how close we are to a realistic product.
Dr. Manfred Weiss, researcher at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburgs, team leader of the macromolecular crystallography joint research group at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin
Helped us understand the technology involved in enzyme engineering and the biggest obstacles to current projects on the topic, and provided us with advice on how our product can be implemented
Dr. Gert Weber, researcher/member of the macromolecular crystallography joint research group at HZB
Gave a lot of advice on obstacles, politicians and current effort, and emphasized the need to achieve a product of a closed cycle in which no side product was formed
Dr. Mirónczuk, researcher at the Department of Biotechnology and Food Microbiology at the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences
Gave advice on what obstacles must be solved/considered when proceeding with our project, and how to solve such issues. Provided suggestions to creating optimal conditions for our bacteria’s usage.
Dr. Tajkia Syeed Tofa, a researcher working at KTH Royal Institute of Technology whose expertises are Environmental Nanotechnology, Advanced Oxidation Processes, Microplastic, and many more areas.
Allowed us to get a deeper insight about different methods of degrading plastic (photodegradation), and enriched the learning experience by questioning us of any other necessary information
Other help
Logo designer Hafizh Pradana provided us advice on the design of our logo, which we extensively took note of in order to improve the aesthetics of our logo.
Web designers James Xie & Alexander Melo greatly helped us by giving examples of possibly website layouts and guiding us in the construction of our website, providing us advice on design elements or coding algorithms.