Captains

Jia Ying NG

1. General
Mainly responsible for scheduling and organizing iGEM project scheme to ensure all works are performed well.
2. Budget proposal
Proposed the budget plans together with Julien to FHS office to ensure all financial support could be achieved and maintained, Including the budget proposal for administration fee, laboratory materials, Outreach activities’ materials, promoting materials, etc.
3. Human Practices
Engaged in the organisation of various activities of human practice and participated in almost all of them, including
• visiting of wastewater treatment plant
• interview of Hong Kong environmental research experts
• Online questionnaire collection
4. Education and Public Engagement
• Local high school summer camp
• Lecture about NPs pollution and our project in Residential college
• local high school water purification DIY workshop.
• Sea product markets interview
5. Wiki
• Orchestrated overall wiki design, information and data collection, illustration and pictures generation to ensure all members can work efficiently.
• Wrote illustration, collected and generated pictures for “Project Description and Inspiration” and “Experiment Design” wiki pages.
• Organized some of the lablog, prepare all the daily lab photos to be ready to upload to wiki pages.
• Generated the format of all wiki pages related to lab activities.

Philip Naderev P. LAGNITON

1. Internal Affairs
Mainly responsible to internal affairs. Managed, designed and supervised all the experiments, finished most of the experiment and data analysis. Contacted the reagent supplier and technical support and ensure the experimental progress.
• The experiment designed and finished : Plasmids construction: including PCR, restriction digestion, Gibson assembly, plasmid extraction from bacteria, the transformation of bacteria, colony picking DNA gel running.
• Protein expression test: including western blot, pull-down assay, tyrosinase secretion system expression test, immunostaining for OPHT.
• Functional test: OPHT adhesion system functional test, Ftna functional test, and tyrosinase activity test.
2. Outreach activities
• Participated in the DIY water purification kit workshop in Local high school.
• Participated in the lectures in UM summer camp.
• Contacted C-trap to confirm detail technique detail.
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Carrie, Yuchen YANG

1. Designed, coordinated and conducted all external affairs including activities in Human Practices and Public Engagement, sponsors invitation, technique supports coordination. Participated in the production of promoting media including video, PPTs, wiki and posters. Coordinated the materials procurement. Contributed in early stage of wet lab work.
2. Human Practices
Designed, conducted and coordinated the Human Practices activities. Collected and summarized the results. Prepared related promoting materials and composed the related pages in wiki. The activities include:
Interview
• Interviewed and visited in local WWTP
• Communicated with Macau Government
• Coordinated the Hong Kong experts interview
Survey
• Designed the questionnaire, collected the results.
Inter-team communication
• Coordinated and participated in team meet-up with CUHK
• Coordinated and participated in SDG&iGEM online conference
• Coordinated and participated in the 1st HK iGEM symposium 2019
• Coordinated the GoldenGate Webinar
• Coordinated the GuangZhou symposium
3. Human Practices
Engaged in the organisation of various activities of human practice and participated in almost all of them, including
• Coordinated and participated in team meet-up with CUHK
• interview of Hong Kong environmental research experts
• Online questionnaire collection
4. Education and Public Engagement
• Local high school summer camp
• Lecture about NPs pollution and our project in Residential college
• local high school water purification DIY workshop.
• Sea product markets interview
5. Wiki
• Orchestrated overall wiki design, information and data collection, illustration and pictures generation to ensure all members can work efficiently.
• Wrote illustration, collected and generated pictures for “Project Description and Inspiration” and “Experiment Design” wiki pages.
• Organized some of the lablog, prepare all the daily lab photos to be ready to upload to wiki pages.
• Generated the format of all wiki pages related to lab activities.

Renee, Liyunzi LIANG

She worked on biobricks construction, protein expression tests, functional tests, and lab records. Besides, she also helped supervise teammates for laboratory works in the early stage, attended symposiums as the representative, and participated in some outreach activities.

Julien, Rui Lian NYAM

She made budget plans, placed ordering, collected receipts and made financial reports. In the meanwhile, I took care all related stuffs of lab, carried out all experiments, recorded and managed the lab notes. What's more, she managed our online account and renewed our team latest status to the public, connecting with other iGEM team on social media"

Jing Tong TAN

To be continued...

Hugh, Zhongyu HUANG

He mainly contributed to making our official video and designing wiki page. In addition, he also participated in human practice activities, such as high school workshop, seafood market interview and so on.

Connie, Yixiao WANG

As a Computer Science student from University of Michigan Ann Arbor, she helped write the wikipage codes .

Pinto, Zhijun HE

He organized outreach activities, composed part of emails and created connection with macau government. At the same time, he also designed our poster, did western blot in lab, participated proposal and budget planing writing, and attended the Great Bay iGEM symposium.

Katrina, Jiaqi XIAN

She contributed to team promotion subjects design and acquisition, facilitated local high school DIY workshop and video conduction and helped some lab works in the previous stage.

Prof Leo lee / Primary PI

He, as the convener of our team, was responsible for administrative procedures and provided most of the suggestions on the experiments and human practices. He also provided us with the basic experiment equipment, reaction agents, and kits for different experiments like western blot system, DNA gel purification kit, EP tube and pipette tips, etc. .

Prof Vivien Wong / Primary PI

As the expert in proteomics, she provided useful advice about the project design and web lab, especially in the protein expression aspect. She also offered the experimental bench in her lab for us. .

Prof Ruiyu Xie / Primary PI

She is an expert in molecular biology and provided valuable advice on project design and bio-bricks design.

Prof Zhang Xuanjun / Advisor

As the expert in chemistry and nanotechnology, he provided lots of knowledge of chemistry. He also provided PFTPT and PFBT nanoparticle samples with fluorescence for functional tests, and UV-vis spectrophotometry for nanoparticle concentration measuring.

Prof Zheng Jun / Advisor

As the expert in microbiology, he provided us with most of microbiology experimental protocols, for example, E.coli transformation for protein expression and plasmid amplification, bacteria protein extraction. Moreover, plasmids for protein expression, some of the antibodies for western-blot, and different E.coli strains were also provided by his lab.

Yunfang Xiong / Instructor

A Ph.D. student from Prof. Leo’s lab. She provided most of the assistance in the wet lab, including western blot, electrophoretic, etc.

Amanda Wu / Instructor

A Ph.D. student from the Faculty of Health Science. She provided suggestions of protein expression tests like the western blot.

Ziqiang Chi / Instructor

PhD student from the Faculty of Science and Technology, he provided help and suggestions in mathematical modeling,

Wendy, Weng Hong SOU

She assisted our team in all the administrative procedures including iGEM team registration, financial application, and others, to ensure the successful establishment and maintenance of our team.

Jimmy, Choi Fong NGAI

He assisted our team to apply for an official UM iGEM email account as a communication platform for external affairs.

University of Hong Kong

Professor Mei Yee Leung, Dr. Olivier Habimana, and Prof. V. Thiyagarajan provided us really useful perspectives and suggestions in the technical problems and improvement of our project, and their encouragement really motivated us to perform better.

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