Team:Guelph/Attributions
Nycole Crevitz: Nykole was a former iGEM Guelph member that provided us with a skeleton code for our iGEM wiki. Tony Shen Tony is the Modelling lead. He was in charge of designing a model that will help us better understand the molecular nature and biosynthesis pathways for certain chemicals. Sofia Finley Sofia is the collaboration team lead. She is in charge of internal collaborations between our various departments, as well as external collaborations with other iGEM teams. Her job is to foster connections within our team, and with all the iGEM teams we have worked with this competition year. Taylor Ball, Kristen Cimolai, Olivia Gair, Hawi Abdurman, Sath Pinikeshi, Jamie Stein, Danielle Halasz, Julia Leith, Kevin Pirabaharan, Mikayla Walsh, Tevon Pierre The above team members contributed to the Collaboration Team, in addition to working with their own departments. Enzo Baracuhy Enzo acted as the director of research for the team’s wet lab operations throughout the summer. He organized the educational program for lab members, created weekly lab schedules, acted as a liaison with professors and laboratory coordinators, reviewed literature to design experiments, designed gene constructs and primers, ordered reagents, taught project leads how to perform experiments, and kept tabs on lab reagent inventory. Sarah Cumberland Sarah acted as a project lead throughout the summer and director of research during the fall. She led experiments and taught basic and advanced molecular biology lab techniques to other wet lab team members to contribute to the cloning of our constructs and the verification of their presence in E. coli, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and Arabidopsis thaliana. She also created weekly lab schedules, acted as a liaison with professors and laboratory coordinators, and kept tabs on lab reagent inventory. Amira Bouchema, Danielle Halasz, Hannah Vujovic, Kulay Janneh, Namra Hamid These wet lab members acted as project leads throughout the summer. They led experiments and taught basic and advanced molecular biology lab techniques to other wet lab team members. They contributed to the cloning of our constructs and the verification of their presence in E. coli, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and Arabidopsis thaliana by performing experiments such as transformations, PCRs, gels, E. coli & Arabidopsis thaliana cell culturing, media preparation, floral dipping, seed harvesting and plating. Dennis Tran, Harkamal Samra, Mike Green, Nathaniel Petersen These wet lab members contributed by performing experiments such as transformations, PCRs, gels, E. coli & Arabidopsis thaliana cell culturing, floral dipping, seed harvesting and plating. Due to their significant involvement over the summer, they were selected to work with the Project Leads into the fall semester when lab access became more limited Adrian Monrad, Anum Anjum, Arthur Karapetov, Brittany Alexander, Charlotte Fletcher, Emma Lee, Gerry Koot, Gesjana Rustemi, Isha Trivedi, Jasmine Kortekaas, Kartikay Pabbi, Lisa Tran, Rebecca Taylor, Samantha Segal, Sofia Finley, Taylor Ball, Tiffany Arnone These wet lab members contributed by performing experiments such as transformations, PCRs, gels, E. coli & Arabidopsis thaliana cell culturing and floral dipping. Hawi Abdurman Hawi is a University of Guelph Student studying International Development. She contributed her skills in videography to create tours of the U of G growing facilities. She also worked as a member of the Collaboration Team to produce the Academic Materials. Anum and Isha Talked to stakeholders via emails, zoom meetings and phone calls Created transcripts of stakeholder meetings for the team Promoted the promotional video across campus Held monthly meetings for IHP members Worked as members of the lab research team Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Provided funding, lab space, and equipment for team use. Elspeth Smith Coordinated the use of shared lab space, equipment, and reagents for team use. Michael Mucci and Leane Illman Coordinated the use of phytotron growth chamber space and troubleshooting environmental conditions for optimal plant growth. Dr. Joseph Colasanti Provided advice regarding the activation of promoters of antibiotic resistance genes in different organisms. Kurt Schroeter Coordinated the use of shared lab equipment and provided direction on the use of the equipment. Jamie Jones Coordinated the use of departmental equipment and provided training for the use of this equipment. Olivia Gair Olivia is the Business Director. She spearheaded all business-related ventures for the 2020-21 season. Through management of a four-person team, her responsibilities included overseeing human practices work, helping with financial administration, and creating a social media strategy. She also put together a presentation for members within iGEM Guelph on professionalism in STEM, and helped the Collaboration Team identify, reach out to, and coordinate with international iGEM teams. Juan (Miguel) Padolina Juan is the finance lead. His responsibilities included writing proposals for different grants that iGEM Guelph applied to throughout the season, researching costs for the proposed implementation of our research, and helping to construct and edit the project presentation video. Olivia Bogner Olivia is the marketing lead. Her responsibilities included social media management, as well as putting together the project promotion video, and some outreach to other iGEM teams. John Steadman Provided advice from a high school teacher’s perspective as to how to structure educational materials, as well as which materials would work best at which high school grade levels. Laura (last name unknown) - iGEM Aboa Provided advice on how to structure educational materials to maximize engagement from younger students.