Attributions
We extend out thanks to all those who helped us this year. Their help was crucial in the formation, direction and competition of our project. Specific references to the work done by those named below can also be found on the relevant pages with whose content they assisted with.
Associate Professor Christopher Marquis
Primary PI
Chris has provided immense help both inside and outside the lab. We would like to thank Chris for helping us acquire the funding, reagents, and consumables for our project as well as allowing us to use the equipment in the Recombinant Protein Facility (RPF) which he is in charge of. He also lent us his expertise in troubleshooting lab complications and suggested alternative approaches. Outside of the lab, Chris’s guidance allowed us to prioritize important tasks and his connections got us in touch with many experts whose knowledge proved invaluable for our project.
Dr Dominic Glover
Secondary PI
Dom has years of experience and knowledge guiding our team through the tasks required to achieve our goals. Not only did he provide us with costly materials from his lab, he also gave us his time solving problems related to laboratory. We appreciate Dom sharing his expertise in prefoldin, educating and mentoring the team.
Dr Daniel Winter
Laboratory Mentor
Daniel has provided crucial help to the laboratory, human practices and modelling team. His guidance in laboratory techniques, Chimera software and troubleshooting has formed the foundations of our project. Daniels’ involvement with the laboratory team in S. cerevisiae transformation as well as expression, golden gate assembly and chloramphenicol stock protocols have been crucial in the success of our project. We are thankful for his ongoing support providing us with formative feedback on the project direction steering the UNSW iGEM project towards success.
Megan Jones
Human Practices Mentor
Megan has provided direction and ongoing feedback for human practices. We would like to thank her for her work listening and supporting our team. Additionally, Megan has played a crucial step in organisation of the team and for this we are thankful for Megan.
Patricia Sullivan
Wiki Mentor
Patricia has provided insights into website design, as well as, wiki troubleshooting with CSS. She has been an important support network for the iGEM team providing advice as well as, comfort to the team for this we are thankful of Patricia.
Tyler Chapman
Laboratory Mentor
Tyler has provided overall laboratory plan for the expression of alpha and beta prefoldins as well as, helped design G-blocks. Additionally, Tyler played a formative role in the initial education of the team demonstrating all protocols and information surrounding laboratory process for this we are thankful of Tyler.
Linda Chen
Laboratory Mentor
Linda has assisted with troubleshooting of gibson assembly calculations, provided overall lab plan and preliminary protocols. Additionally, Linda has supported on graphics and design.
Alex Mars
Modelling Mentor
Alex has provided the mathematical model from last year as well as guidance on how to improve it using MD.
Josh McCluskey
Laboratory Mentor
For his support in assistance and general lab work, lab plan and result interpretations. Josh has provided important materials such as; autoclave media, pET19b plasmid backbone. We would additionally, like to thank Josh for his help on troubleshooting PCR, gibson assembly calculations and primer design.
Nga Tien Lam
Laboratory Mentor
For her support with gibson assembly of TycA we are very thankful. Nga meticulously showed us how to express and purify proteins step-by-step. She patiently explained the reasoning behind each step as well as helped us with calculations. We would additionally, like to thank Nga for assisting us in troubleshooting our mistakes.
Laboratory Work
Helene Lebhar
For her support with showing us how to use the Recombinant Protein Facility’s (RPF) equipment, including the sonicator, high-speed centrifuge as well as, the AKTA Start FPLC system. We are thankful for her teaching us how to read chromatograms and helping us fix our Ni-NTA column when it was threaded. We would additionally, like to thank Helene for her help in troubleshooting purification problems and lending her expertise on protein refolding.
Camile Edmilao
We would like to thank Camile for her assistance with glycerol stock protocol.
Imitiaz Islam
We would like to thank Imitiaz for his assistance with gel imaging using the transilluminator.
Marc Wilkins
We would like to thank Marc for helping us figure out how we could accommodate PAM onto our scaffold and analyse our Mass Spec results.
Joshua Hamey
We would like to thank Joshua for providing pD1204 plasmid backbone for assembly of LXYL-P1-2 S.cerevisiae strain.
Albert Fahrenbach
We would like to thank Dr. Fahrenbach for lending us crucial reagents and equipment as well as fund our H NMR experiments
Modelling
Paul Curmi
We would like to thank Paul for providing help with MD errors, as well as giving comprehensive insight into the theoretical foundation of MD; its assumptions, approach and limitations.
Aidan McMahon-Smith
We would like to thank Aidan for providing help working in a HPC environment and providing troubleshooting when errors arose during molecular dynamics (MD) work.
Human Practices
Dr. Gilberto Lopez
We would like to thank Gilberto help us understand the global Taxol market.
Professor Peter Gunning
We would like to thank Peter help us understand the domestic Taxol market.
Australian Government Department of Health
We would like to thank the Australian Government Department of Health for providing information on Paclitaxel pricing in Australia.
Will Wright
We would like to thank Will for consulting on the business plan template providing bespoke business advice and feedback.
Ping Zhu
We would like to thank Ping Zhu for his help in developing an alternate Paclitaxel Production pathway. We sincerely appreciate their support and enthusiasm.
Professor Gianlucca Piovesan
We would like to thank Gianlucca for his help in providing us with important information on how to restore the Himalayan Yew.
David Mills
We would like to thank David for his help in helping us adapt content from his book “Wild Foods Home Garden” a book about growing wild plants like the Himalayan Yew.
Professor Ram Chandra Poudel
We would like to thank Ram for helping us reach and contact communities in the Himalaya and helping us adapt our guide to something relevant to the communities in Nepal.
Professor Prem Lal Uniyal & Dr. Prabha Sharma
We would like to thank both Professor Uniyal and Dr. Sharma for their input into the creation of our Yew Guide, and for supporting us in the development of the sustainable yew tree farming program.
Professor Douglass Macfarlane
We would like to thank Douglass for helping us incorporate green chemistry concepts, and introducing us to “Atom Economics”.
Professor James Clark
We would like to thank James who helped us implement concepts of Green chemistry into our project.
Dr Avtar Matharu
We would like to thank Avtar who discussed concepts of Green chemistry in light of our project.
Nathalie Rafae & UNSW Founders team
We would like to thank Nathalie for providing us with direction and advice on how we could commercialise our project.
Tip Piumsomboon
We would like to thank Tip for providng us with insight into venture capital within Australia. Additionally, aiding us in understanding start-up environment and culture.
Chris Marquis Lab
We would like to thank Chris Marquis’s lab for helping us understand potential recovery mechanisms for our project within a bioreactor.
Allen Partners
We would like to thank Allen partners for providing us with bespoke advice on our business plan. Additionally, Allen partners have facilitated numerous connections for distribution of our business plan.
Laurene Leclerc
We would like to thank Laurene for helping with the design and layout of educational tools.
Angela Salazar
We would like to thank Angela for helping with our educational SynBio video.
Tony Kha
We would like to thank Tony for wiki support.