Team:SoundBio/Attributions

Team Modeling Minterlab Collaborations

SoundBio iGEM

Attributions

Public Relations Minterlab Wetlab Project Development Hardware Software Collaborations Funding & in-kind support

Public Relations

Alfie Germano, CEO of Nanollose for giving advice on how cellulose is used in the clothing industry
Dr. Edmund Seto, UW Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences for giving advice on what we should consider when developing a final BC product for whichever industry we choose
Jennifer Macuiba, UW Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences for reaching out to her teammates to give us extra feedback on our project
Dr. Nicole Gibran, UW Professor of Surgery and Trauma & Burn for informing us about how we can target our project to burn treatments
Dr. Richard Gustafson, UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences for giving us advice on the feasibility of BC in jet fuel production
Dr. Rachel Bernstein, Co-author, BioBuilder: Synthetic Biology in the Lab for endorsing our project on our Experiment Campaign
Dr. Eliane Trovati, a researcher from the São Carlos Institute of Chemistry for informing us about how we can target our project to burn treatments
Regina Wu for giving us feedback on how we approached fundraising, outreach, and team organization

Minterlab

Thanks to Sammamish YMCA Staff for providing us a venue to host Minterlab, as Seattle Minterlab would not have been possible without them.

Wetlab

Zach Mueller for guiding project direction, reviewing cloning design, coordinating with Genewiz, connecting us to SPIN, and supervising labwork
Aida Hidalgo for editing protocols, augmenting organization, guiding lab technique, troubleshooting protocol mishaps, and supervising labwork
Yoshi Goto for safety and lab training, ordering products/materials, supervising labwork
Samer Halabiya and Cami Cordray for helping us to troubleshoot issues in our Gibson Assembly and navigating Aquarium, their plasmid cloning service site. Also for allowing us to borrow their lab’s flow cytometer and supervising our usage.
Alberto Carignano for teaching us how to handle the flow cytometer and analyze its data

Project Development

Imperial iGEM 2014 for providing their strain of K. rhaeticus for us to experiment with.

Hardware

Michael Florea for guiding us in the proper steps of drying and quantifying bacterial cellulose.
TAP Plastics for assisting us in selecting the material of our bioreactor chamber, cutting the parts of our bioreactor chamber, and demonstrating how to assemble the chamber.
Anastasia Nicolov for providing insight on bioreactors, advising on hardware and experimental design, and supervising on experiments.

Software

Dr. Jeffrey Tabor and the Tabor Lab for assisting us greatly on the development of our model
MISL (Molecular Informations Systems Lab) for teaching us how to use the flow cytometer
Lakeside High School for letting us use their soldering iron
Redmond High School for letting us use their soldering fan
Team Zurich 2014 for helping us with parameter estimation
BIOFAB for giving us resources and guidance on using the flow cytometer
Yoshi Goto, our advisor, for helping us every step of the way. He gave us the basic skills and knowledge we needed to start building a computational model, then provided us with constant feedback and support. We couldn’t have done it without him!

Collaborations

Washington iGEM for their efforts in planning the Pacific Northwest iGEM Meetup
IISC_Bangalore iGEM for participating in Minterlab
Calgary iGEM for participating in Minterlab

Funding and in-kind support

Experiment.com Backers for their financial support
iGEM Parents for their financial and temporal support
Cindy Wu and Experiment.com for guidance on crowdfunding and providing us a funding platform
SoundBio Lab for providing lab space and advising support
IDT for 20kb of free DNA synthesis
New England Biolabs for reagents, enzymes, and other supplies