Team:USP SaoCarlos-Brazil/Attributions
ATTRIBUTIONS
ADMINISTRATION
The administration committee was responsible for staff and member submissions, as well as submitting documentation to iGEM. They also performed human resources tasks and were responsible for making contact between team members, teachers and people at the University of São Paulo
- Beatriz Saiani Bellini
- Giancarlo de Souza
- Giane Corrêa Ferreira
- Paulina Rossi Ferreira
- Roberto Hiroshi Matos Furuta
FINANCES
The finance committee was responsible for managing the team's financial wealth and paying staff and member registrations. In addition, they applied for financial aid and contacted potential sponsors. They were also responsible for other team work to raise money, such as food sales, raffles and crowdfunding control.
- Beatriz Saiani Bellini
- Giancarlo de Souza
- Giane Corrêa Ferreira
- Paulina Rossi Ferreira
- Raquel Sterman
- Nayla Naomi Kusimoto Takeuti
VISUAL DESIGN
The visual design committee was responsible for creating the team's visual identity. The project name, color palette used, team mascots, logos and t-shirts were created by this committee.
- André Jucovski
- Juliana Naomi Yamauti Costa
- Pedro Ilídio
- Roberto Furuta
MARKETING
The marketing committee was responsible for the creation of content for social and corporate networks. They worked with the team banners and posters, as well as creating designs for the wiki. The marketing team was also responsible for producing the video that explains our project.
- André Jucovski
- Giancarlo de Souza
- Giane Corrêa Ferreira
- Juliana Naomi Yamauti Costa
- Lucas Grizotto
- Maria Júlia Marques
- Pedro Ilídio
- Roberto Furuta
- Vinícius Borsato
WIKI
The wiki committee was responsible for writing much of the content that is featured on the wiki. In addition, they worked with the implementation of all items necessary for the proper functioning and good design of our team wiki.
- André Jucovski
- Pedro Ilídio
- Roberto Furuta
HUMAN PRACTICES
The human practices committee was responsible for planning all humanitarian and outreach activities. In addition, members of this committee participated in a trip to produce the disaster documentary that motivated our project. As such, the HP commission was also responsible for filming and interviews.
- Beatriz Saiani Bellini
- Giancarlo de Souza
- Giane Corrêa Ferreira
- Luana Corsi
- Maria Júlia Marques
MODELLING
The modeling committee was responsible for all the mathematical modeling of our biological system.
- Beatriz Saiani Bellini
- João Paulo Cassucci
- Paulina Rossi Ferreira
- Roberto Furuta
- Vinícius Borsato
WET LAB
The wet lab commission was responsible for the design of the parts we used and the gene circuit of our project. They planned all the experiments and performed them. In addition, they were responsible for analyzing the results obtained.
- Amanda Araujo Silva
- Beatriz Saiani Bellini
- João Paulo Cassucci
- Juliana Naomi Yamauti Costa
- Luana Corsi
- Lucas Grizotto
- Nayla Naomi Kusimoto Takeuti
- Paulina Rossi Ferreira
- Raquel Sterman
- Vinícius Borsato
HARDWARE
The hardware commission was responsible for planning the application of our project. They made the biofilter model using green coconut fiber and UV light. In addition, they were responsible for the characterization experiments of the fiber used.
- Beatriz Saiani Bellini
- Giancarlo de Souza
- Giane Corrêa Ferreira
- Lucas Grizotto
- Maria Júlia Marques
- Roberto Furuta
SPECIAL THANKS
- M.S. Student
- University of São Paulo
Nico advised us about our experimental set up whenever he could.
- B.S. Research Assistant
- Eligo Bioscience
Camila, our experienced iGEMmer, has always helped us with questions about the competition, about lab work, about emergency procedures and troubleshooting!
- Ph.D. Student
- University of São Paulo
Raissa, our queen and iGEM veteran, has spent hours solving problems with us, advising, visiting the lab and being extremely kind everytime! You are inspiring!
- Ph.D. Professor
- University of São Paulo
Professor Navarro was our primary PI. With his knowledge on biofilm training he guided us on the best ways to work with biofilm. Also helped us in circuit design.
- Ph.D. Professor
- University of São Paulo
Professor Guido was our secondary PI. He helped us with administrative and financial issues.
- Ph.D. Professor
- University of São Paulo
Professor Alessandro has offered support to the iGEM USP São Carlos team since the beginning of the team formation. He guided us to the best ways to get administrative and financial support from our institution and, also, helped in choosing our project.
- Ph.D. Professor
- University of São Paulo
Professor Tundisi is the Municipal Secretary of the Environment in São Carlos. He has informed us about the water problems in Brazil and has oriented us in regard to the implementation of our system in a real filter.
- Undergrad. Student
- University of São Paulo
Yuri has helped us with transporting equipment and driving in several occasions, including our visit to Mariana. He also participated in the production of our documentary.
- Undergrad. Student
- University of São Paulo
Rafael tried to help us with mercury quantification in solution with the equipment of the Photonics Group of the São Carlos Institute of Physics.
- Undergrad. Student
- University of São Paulo
Matheus Issa contrinuted with PCRs.
- Ph.D. Professor
- University of São Paulo
Professor Rafael Buoro from Chemistry Institute of São Carlos helped us to find some ideas of how to measure mercury concentration and also to get the solution of HgCl2.
- M.S. Educator
- University of São Paulo
Herbert provided us the equipments to perform the scientific experiments exhibition in partnership with the CorAção project. He lent us the van der Graaf experiment and provided us the liquid nitrogen.
- Ph.D. Professor
- University of São Paulo
Professor Bagnato is the director of the São Carlos Institute of Physics. He lended us the pizza oven to raise money. In addition, he provided us with administrative support.
- Ph.D. Water Treatment Manager
- Autonomous Water and Sewage Service (São Carlos)
Ph.D. Patrizi is the water and wastewater treatment manager at our local water treatment center. She has informed us about the water quality in São Carlos and has warned us about the heavy metal quantification difficulty when analyzing samples.
- Ph.D. Professor
- Carleton University (Canada)
Professor Örmeci is the Jarislowsky Chair in Water and Global Health. She gave us a course on "water, sanitation and health", which helped us to understand the different processes and problems involved in treating water. She also helped us to forsee possible problems with our system.
- Ph.D. Postdoctoral student
- University of São Paulo
Ph.D. Bianca taught us the FTIR measurement method and guided us from the production of KBr discs until the results.
- Ph.D. Student
- University of São Paulo
Renan helped our team plan mercury measures. In addition, he worked with the processing of LIBS results.
- Ph.D. Student
- Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation)
Alfredo took the samples for mercury quantification with us and operated the LIBS equipment.
- Ph.D. Rearcher
- Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation)
Ph.D. Débora has advised us on viable mercury quantification techniques and mediated the permission of use of Embrapa's equipment.
- Ph.D. Rearcher
- Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation)
Ph.D. Nogueira has advised us on viable mercury quantification techniques and mediated the permission of use of Embrapa's equipment.
The Maternity Republic is located in the city of Ouro Preto - MG and welcomed our team members during the days of the trip to Mariana-MG. We are grateful for the support, especially to Matheus Marrega for the great reception.
- University of São Paulo
All of the Rectories of USP (University of São Paulo)provided significant financial support to our team. We are very grateful to the Undergraduate Rectory, the Overgraduate Rectory, the Research Rectory and the Culture and University Extension Rectory.
We are very grateful to all the people who participated in our documentary or helped edit and produce it. We also thank the Culture and University Extension Rectory for the financial support to fund the trip to Mariana - MG. Below are listed all contributors to the documentary.
- André de Freitas Machado
- Eduardo Rodrigues
- Gabriela Staffa
- Jose do Nascimento de Jesus
- Júlia Gargitter
- Matheus Marrega
- Mirella Regina Lino de Sant’Ana
- Prof. Carlos Roberto Monteiro de Andrade
- Yuri Peres Asnis
- Vitório Augusto
- Antonio Lino Marcelino
- Culture and University Extension Rectory - PRCEU/USP
- Fraternity Maternidade - Ouro Preto - MG, Brazil
- Sao Carlos Institute of Physics - IFSC/USP
- University of São Paulo
The Cineclub Perangoera is an extracurricular group linked to the São Carlos Institute of Physics. We are grateful for the support and help in spreading our documentary about the Mariana dam disaster.
- Federal University of São Carlos
The iGEM São Carlos Brasil team was a great contributor to our team. We will hold a workshop on Synthetic Biology together. The team also assisted us with laboratory questions.
- Brazilian citizens
- Catarse page
We thank our supporters on our crowdfundin page immensely who contributed financially to our project!
- Water and Sewage treatment facility
- Autonomous Water and Sewage Service (São Carlos)
The SAAE team allowed us to make visits to the Water Treatment Plant and to do the "Water, Sanitation and Health" course.
- Extension group
- University of São Paulo
They invited us to an amazing event organized by them to present a workshop about SynBio.
- Academic Athletic Association of the São Carlos Campus
- University of São Paulo
Atlética - CAASO partnered with our team in activity of scientific experiments exhibition for children from the CorAção project.
- Extension group
- University of São Paulo
The SPIE Student Chapter Group of the São Carlos Institute of Physics has loaned us some equipment to use during the scientific experiments exhibition for children from the CorAção project.
- Institute
- University of São Paulo
The São Carlos Institute of Physics was a great supporter of our team. In addition to providing administrative and financial assistance, the Institute has authorized the use of laboratories and meeting rooms.
- University of São Paulo
Thankyou for lending us Phusion! DNA couldn't be cut without it or without you
- M.S. Student
- University of São Paulo
Thanks, Leo, for all the advice given and for every time you saved us from getting all of our experiments wrong.
- M.S. Student
- University of São Paulo
Higor helped us a lot during our experiment and our days in the laboratory. He lent us a lot of solutions and tubes to use in the experiments and also give us a lot of advices about them.
- M.S. Student
- University of São Paulo
We are very grateful to Raphael for letting us use his diguanilates ciclases in our experiments, once he already had used them hr also gave us some advices.
- M.S. Lab Technician
- University of São Paulo
Andressa was always there in the laboratory to help us in case we need something and to give advices about the experiment. We are very grateful for all the support and help that she gave us even we making a mess of the laboratory.
- Lab Technician
- University of São Paulo
"Bel" was very helpful during the lab, she helped us with her experience in everything abou the lab. We are grateful for all her help!
- University of São Paulo
Marcela has been very helpful, advising us whenever we needed, saving us from the evil autoclave and touring us around the lab.
- M.S. Student
- University of São Paulo
Jake was always worried about us in the lab, "losties" our sweet nickname! Thankyou for all the help you've given us, all the lab advices and all the care.
- Ph.D. Professor
- University of São Paulo
Prof. Daniel investigated a lot of mercury quantification methods with us, sparing us a lot of work.
