Special thanks to our lab managers, Kylie Upthegrove, Victoria Sanchez, Michael Elk for giving us access to labs, stock rooms, and providing us training needed for cell culture and how to keep our work areas clean.
Thanks for the ultimate support and the effort of our advisors, Dr. Jennifer Tsui and Dr. Todd Lorenz. They supported us with ideas and gave new suggestions and approaches for better enhancement of our project. In addition to presentation training and tutoring that they provided for every member to make sure we are well informed about our project inside and out.
Special thanks for a representative from our University of Advancement department, Sarah Prosenko, for aiding us for our crowdfunding goals and other financial advices in order to raise money for the team.
We want to thank the lab managers and our advisers once more for providing us with new protocols that could be applied in our labs. Also to teach us ways how to store different compounds and solutions under different temperature conditions.
Special thanks to team member Janette Alvarez who spent days and weeks to learn about coding to develop our Wiki's template and overlay in order for all of the members to edit each section.
Another thanks to our member, Janette Alvarez, who designed our logo and created shirts so we could have the chance of representing University of La Verne at the Great Jamboree.
We want to thank our student leads Catherosette Meas, Angelica Sabandal, Seth Barrington, Karen De Leon, Magaly Aguirre-Sanchez and Cynthia Basulto who guided the new members and taught them the basics of molecular biology while performing several lab techniques and procedures. Our primary and secondary advisers also played a huge role in laying out the foundations of molecular biology and microbiology to our new members as well so they could apply it and conduct the research needed.
We want to warmly thank the following schools who decided to collaborate with us, iGEM Stanford as well as iGEM Moscow. We were successful in trading assignments and parts with the iGEM Stanford. On the other hand we traded our samples (Proinsulin and Long lasting Insulin) for series of physical assignments with iGEM Moscow.
Thanks to Karen De Leon, Magaly Aguirre-Sanchez, Cynthia Basulto for running SDS pages and performing Nickel Bead (NTA) purifications that played a role in yielding the samples that we aimed for.
We want to thank Dr. Yousef Daneshbod for giving his input during our meetings and checking up with our progress.
We want to also thank Angelica Sabandal and other members who kept our padlet updated , where we store our daily procedures and results. This way we were able to stay on track and not loose momentum and to know exactly where we left off.
We thank Seth Barrington and Angelica Sabandal who performed numerous PCR's, analyzed Gel Electrophoresis results, PCR purifications, transformations, and also Gibson assemblies. These procedures helped us troubleshoot different parts of our project and gave us an idea what to adjust and get us a step closer to our final contruct products.
We want to thank team members Janette Alvarez, Joshua Turner and Khajik Boghosian for playing a learning role and helping with multiple protocols along the way that allowed for the student leads to take on the heavier protocols.
Warm thank you from us to Josh To, who volunteered his time in assisting us and providing us an extra hand in our wet labs.
Special thanks to NEB who was kind enough to send us samples of Q5 hot start as well as chemical and electrocompetent DH5-alpha cells
Lastly, we want to thank everyone who supported us along the way. Starting from the audience all the way to the department of biology at the University of La Verne. We would like to thank Dr. Christine Broussard for being flexible with letting us use the labs to conduct our tests and procedures. Special Thanks to Pablo Weaver for giving us extra access to lab space to be used for our needs. All other departments at our institution played a role in sharing our project with others so we want to thank them for spreading our achievements and progress that we made through our iGEM journey!
