Team:UCL/Attributions

Attributions

Completing an iGEM project truly takes a village. Here are all the people who have helped, contributed and guided us throughout the project. We are extremely grateful to everyone who gave their time and expertise to make our project a success and would like to extend a really huge thank you to all!

Team Members

Name Contribution
Rupali Dabas Organising; Planning and hosting of Education and Public Engagement events; Human Practices; Building collaborations, Presentation at SynBio Showcase, at Newcastle for UK iGEM meet-up, at Virtual Schools event, at UCL Open Day, at UCL SciCon Science Internship Fair, at New Scientist Live, Social media management (Instagram, Facebook)
Clare Robinson Team management, wet lab support, wiki lead (graphics, design and coding), presentation graphics and design, hosting of Education and Public Engagement events; Human Practices; Building collaborations, Presentation at SynBio Showcase, at Newcastle for UK iGEM meet-up, at Virtual Schools event, at UCL Open Day, at New Scientist Live, Social media management (Twitter)
Saverio Charalambous Wet lab management and lead, Presentation support: Hosted Virtual Schools event with Clare and Rupali, presented at New Scientist Live, social media management (Instagram and Facebook), Human Practices support
Matas Deveikis Wet lab lead - cloning workflow lead; BioBrick Design lead; Contributions to BioBrick Registry, Structural modelling support, Presenation at London SynBio Network, Wiki support.
Sofia Esteban Serna Wet lab support, Human practices support, Presentation support: UCL SciCon Science Internship Fair and New Scientist Live.
Diana Catana Statistical modelling lead, wiki design and graphics support, presentation support (New Scientist Live), Photographer
Vladimir Kalinovsky Wet lab support, Safety management
Kostas Pildish Structural modelling lead, Wiki Support, Presented at UCL academy and New Scientist Live, early Wet lab support, Conference poster creation

Supervisors

Name Contribution
Dr Stefanie Frank Primary project supervisor, project support and advice, wet lab support, parts design support
Dr Kenth Gustafsson Primary project supervisor, mammalian cell experimental project technical support, help and advice
Dr Chris Barnes Project support and dynamic modelling guidance.
Dr Darren Nesbeth General guidance and general iGEM competition advice
Dr Rana Khalife Mammalian cell culturing training, supervision, support and guidance, flow cytometry experiment data collection and processing help.
Noelle Colant Project supervisor, provided insightful advice, wiki content review, cloning support, wet lab support and guidance, social media support.
Giovanni Maddalena General wet lab supervision and support, project guidance and insightful conversations
Alex Van de Steen General wet lab supervision and support, project guidance (specific detailed encapsulin expertise) and insightful conversations
Martina Sebastian Project supervisor, provided insightful advice and connections to potential stakeholders
Maria Parau General wet lab supervision and support, project guidance and insightful conversations
Chileab Redwood-Sawyerr General wet lab supervision and support, project guidance and insightful conversations
Moeez Ahmed Khan General wet lab support, project guidance and insightful conversations

Technical Support

Name Contribution
Dr Brian O'Sullivan Lab safety officer and sustainability advisor
Mark Turmaine Transmission Electron Microscopy of T.maritima and M.xanthus encapsulins
Ludmila Ruban Mammalian cell culturing training
Joanne Brotherton Wet lab technical support and supervision.
Samir Aoudjane Created an LED light box to test our photosensitizer encapsulin construct on mammalian cells.

Outreach and Human Practices Aid

Name Contribution
Martin Farley Sustainable lab practices adivce and instrumental in inspiring us to launch Little Leaf sustainability challenge
Dr Elpida Makrygianni Public engagement and outreach advisor, helped with UCL open day and exhibition feedback
Kim Morgan Public engagement, outreach and social media advisor
Gerald McBrearty Provided electrical equipment for the Building with Biology outreach event
Dr Qasim Rafiq Provided a valuable interview for our podcast with NEB (New England Biolabs)
Prof John Ward Provided a valuable interview for our podcast with NEB (New England Biolabs)
Dr Christopher van der Walle Director, Fellow at AstraZeneca - gave us specific stakeholder feedback on our project
Dr Brenda Parker Kindly provided us with scented algae samples for our UCL Open Day exhibition
Phoebe Narenthiran Designed a 3D printed model of our drug delivery platform, and offered us 3D printing and design support
Aurelie Fontan A sustainable fashion and biodesigner - was instrumental in the success of our exhibition at New Scientist Live - kindly provided us with kombucha fabric samples and a mycelium bag, and put us in touch with other biodesigners.
Phoebe Narenthiran Designed a 3D printed model of our drug delivery platform, and offered us 3D printing and design support
Anastasia Kuznetsova - Bolt Threads Kindly provided us with a microsilk tie made from synthetic spider silk (sent it to us all the way from sunny California!) for our synthetic biology exhibition at New Scientist Live
Dian Jen Lin, Post Carbon Lab Sustainable biodesigner who gave us bacterial pigment dyed fabrics for our synthetic biology exhibition at the New Scientist Live exhibition.
Patricia Blazquez Provided valuable feedback that we incorporated in the design of our wiki
Marianne Jaskiewicz Our contact at Royal Academy of Engineering - Collaborated with us to organise a stall at New Scientist Live

Expert Advice

Name Contribution
Dr Steve Brocchini Provided excellent focused feedback on pharmacological aspects of our project and offered general project guidance
Dr Andrew Care Heavily contributed to inspiration of our choice of cargo protein, provided helpful general project guidance and technical advice on engineering encapsulins.
Dr Oscar Della Pasqua Offered general project guidance
Dr George Foot - Sixfold Bioscience Potential industry stakeholders of our technology, offered general advice on project and on designing targeted therapeutics
Dr Priscillia Lagoutte Offered project guidance and insight particularly on using encapsulins as engineering platforms.
Prof Paul Dalby Offered general project insight and structural modelling guidance.
Valentina Spiteri Help massively with preparing structural models for further evaluation.
Dr Cheng Zhang Provided great insight into existing tools for examining structural models.
Prof Andrew Martin Assessed the validity and value of structural modelling progress and offered guidance to further action.
Jordan Thomas and Henri Hans Kindly provided the EPFL 2018 iGEM team's T. maritima encapsulin plasmids by mail
Dr Micheal O'Neill Provided valuable and specific advice that we incorporated in the design of our project
Dr Ahad Rahim Provided key insight into industry requirements from a pharmacologist's perspective. Was also helpful in providing general feedback on our product design
Prof Paula Lorgelly Offered key insight into implications of health economics on our project design. Was particularly helpful in informing us about patient preferences which we then applied in our survey design (see human practices)
Bez Karkaria Helped with troubleshooting our whole cell dynamic model.
Dr Martin Forster Head,lung and neck cancer specialist at University College London Hospital - gave us feedback on design of the survey targeted at those affected by breast cancer

Other Help

Name Contribution
Sandra Sarosta Hotel and flight bookings for Boston Jamboree trip.
Derrick Abraham Help with finances