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.
