Co-Supervisors
| Prof. Radhakrishnan Mahadevan | Professor, Associate Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Metabolic Systems Engineering |
| Prof. Keith Pardee | Assistant Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto Investigator, Medicine by Design |
Wet and Dry Lab Contributions
| Dr. Sean Caffrey | Executive Director, BioZone, University of Toronto | Provided lab space in BioZone. |
| Prof. Grant Allen | Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto | Provided lab space in Biozone. |
| Prof. Elizabeth Edwards | Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering Director, BioZone, University of Toronto |
Provided lab space in BioZone. |
| Endang Susilawati | Lab Manager, BioZone, University of Toronto | Assisted with equipment and biosafety training. |
| Tatiana Skarina | Technician, BioZone, University of Toronto | Assisted with liquid nitrogen training. |
| Phil Milczarek | Manager, Purchasing and Building Services, University of Toronto | Provided guidance through the experimental project. |
| Patrick Diep | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto iGEM Toronto Instructor and Graduate Advisor |
Provided guidance through experimental project development and troubleshooting. |
| Anna Khusnutdinova | Post-Doctoral Fellow, BioZone, University of Toronto | Provided guidance with equipment training and troubleshooting experiments. |
| Brayden Kell | M.Sc. Candidate, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga | Provided guidance in the design and mathemetic calculations of each tank in our bioreactor. |
Policy and Practices Contributions
| Reno Strano | Waste Management Supervisor and Recycling Coordinator, University of Toronto | Provided insight into the waste collection programs at the University of Toronto and highlighted key problems with the current recycling system, specifically focusing on contamination of plastics due to inappropriate disposal of recyclable materials. Provided contacts for waste management within the City of Toronto. |
| Sean Hurley | Project Lead, Solid Waste Management Division, City of Toronto | Provided insight into the waste management within the city of Toronto and highlighted key problems with the current recycling system, specifically focusing on cross-contamination and finding ways of extracting the original PET components, EG/TPA, to be re-used in plastic production. |
| Sumantra Datta-Ray | Lead Engineer, Unit for Research, Innovation and Circular Economy, City of Toronto | Provided insight into the waste management within the city of Toronto and highlighted key problems with the current recycling system, specifically focusing on cross-contamination and finding ways of extracting the original PET components, EG/TPA, to be re-used in plastic production. |
| Dan Lantz | Director, PACNext!, Toronto, ON | Provided insight into the corporate interest and investment in recycling industry, specifically the interest in reclaiming the raw materials of plastics. |
| Peel Plastic | Member of Sustainable Packaging Coalition, Toronto, ON | Provided insight into the current plastic manufacturing and packaging process, and highlighting the need for a new greener strategy to deal with the plastic accumulation and pollution. |
| Henrique D'Ambrosio Retti de Andrade | Graduate Student, iGEM USP-Sao Carlos Brazil | Was featured in one of our podcast, SynTalks, episodes. |
| Ruhi Choudhary | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto | Was featured in one of our podcast, SynTalks, episodes. |
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