In order to achieve our project’s goal, we distributed different tasks and activities among the team members. We also received support from people outside the team, to which we are extremely grateful. In the followings lines we present the work done by each of people involved in our project.
Attributions
Acknowladgements
Bronze Medal
1. Register for iGEM, have a great summer, and attend the Giant Jamboree.
We registered for iGEM, worked hard and learned a lot this summer (it was rainy season here, actually). Also, we are looking forward to attend the Giant Jamboree soon!
2. Competition Deliverables
We documented all our work in our Wikiand recorded our achievements in this judging form. Also, we are going to present our poster and presentation in the Giant Jamboree.
3. Attributions
We completed the Attributionspage in our wiki. There we describe how we managed to complete all the work and thank all the people who helped us in this journey.
4. Inspiration and description
We successfully completed the Inspiration and Descriptionpage in our Wiki, where we share what motivated us to propose an alternative treatment for C. difficile.
5. Characterization / Contribution
We characterized an existing Part of the Registry. The experimental data generated is documented in BBa_K2253000
’s Main Page.
Research assistants
We want to give special thanks to our passionate pre iGEMers who helped us in the wet lab:
Andrés Carranza
Ana María Ocampo
Argerie Oviedo
Adriana Fallas
Joel Rojas
Photographers
Also, we want to thank the people who captured our team essence:
Daniel Better Leal
Melania Martínez
Donations
DiffEasy couldn’t been possible without the help of family, friends and all the people who saw our project and give us a hand. Thank you, every donation help us in a big way:
William Alvarado
Kevin Castro
Alberth Abarca
Leticia Rímolo
Attributions
Since November 2018, we started meeting up at someone’s house or in a coffee shop. We started by defining the areas we were interested in. We did a brainstorming on problems that we could addressed with Synthetic Biology and we came up with the topic of antibiotic resistance. By doing further research we decided to propose an alternative treatment to Clostridium difficile, as it is a highly resistant bacteria commonly present in Costa Rican hospitals. After that, we designed our genetic constructs, started looking for fundings, got in the lab by May and at that point, there was no turning back.
In order to achieve our project’s goal, we distributed different tasks and activities among the team members. We also received support from people outside the team, to which we are extremely grateful. In the followings lines we present the work done by each of people involved in our project.
Team members: Anthony, María Jose, Noé, Diego, Paula, Pablo, Juliana, Adrián and Ignacio.