Team:Moscow City/Attributions

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Meet our team

Kirill Medvedev

Student team leader and co-founder

Created the team, raised funding for our project, gave lectures about creating a team for the iGEM, coordinated the work

Daria Latortseva

Student team leader and team co-founder

Created the team, contacted veterinarians and stables, gave lectures about what is the iGEM, and coordinated the teamwork

Alisa Potapova

Team leader in science

Chief of wet lab. Author of our manuals and our team’s contribution ideas

Pavel Ivanov-Rostovtsev

Wet-lab researcher

Did experiments on molecular cloning of dCas13a and split beta-lactamase. Helped design plan of experiments

Yaroslav Ugolkov

Wet-lab researcher

Invited many team members, worked in a wet lab, designed our CRISPR/Сas method

Ciara Makievskaya

Wet-lab researcher

Worked with science communication in our project and provided science content to our social media.

Anton Changalidi

Dry lab researcher

Helped to determine gRNAs for our project. Helped us in brainstorming from the bioinformatics field

Ioanna Pataraya

SMM and content manager

Contributed a lot to our education and communication strategy, was responsible for collaborations and partnerships, and suggested an idea about the EHV.

Lavrenty Danilov

Dry lab researcher

Found sequences of different types of EHV, chose and visualized common sequences of all EHV genomes, determined gRNAs for our project

Maria Glushanina

SMM and content manager

Helped with collaborations and contributed to education and communication criteria.

Savely Kaurtaev

Brand manager

Designed and filmed the promotion and the presentation videos, designed wiki, and drew pictures for social media, wiki, and videos

Anastasiia Shirobokova

Interpreter

Organized all the English-speaking clubs, translated Wiki material and emails

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Zakhar Vozmilov

Web developer

Set our wiki

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Meet our mentors

Dr. Maxim Patrushev

Primary PI

Shared his lab with us, helped us choose a suitable method for diagnostics, gave a lot of valuable advice about the project and life.

Dr. Ilya Zubarev

Secondary PI

Helped us with organizing several lectures, supported us when we thought all was lost. In addition, he checked our Wiki texts.

Maxim Bokov

Instructor

Helped us a lot with starting a team, finding PI, and were giving support during the whole competition.

Nick Delkis

Mentor

iGEM 19’ 20’ 21’ - helped us with questions about lab work, filling the wiki, and fundraising help and advice

Maria Koshkina

Project support

She joined our team two days after the team roster deadline but contributed a lot to our team. She helped us with modeling: calculated connection of binding of two beta-lactamases to prove that their connection is an energetically beneficial process

Ruslan Vasilyev

Instructor

Taught us how to work in SnapGene and composed a cloning map there, supervised our lab work.

Dr. Dmitriy Karpov

Advisor

Helped us choose the right Cas protein for our test system and carefully evaluated all our ideas in brainstorming.

Ekaterina Batenko

Lab support

Helped us find new sponsors

Marta Evteeva

Instructor

Helped us in our lab work and tutored us

Natalia Vereshchagina

Instructor

Helped us in our lab work and guided us

Anna Borisova

Technical support

Helped us in our lab work with minor experiments.

Dr. Timofei Zatsepin

Helped us a lot with brainstorming our ideas and defining what we needed to develop each of them.

Anna Kozlova

Helped us with modeling.

Human Practices support

Vera Kuzmina

Helped us with contacting regional veterinary and stables.

Ekaterina Batenko

Helped us with finding many veterinarians and new sponsors

Acknowledgements

Thanks to
Dr. Maxim Nikitin

And his lab for opening us new types of diagnostic systems and giving an optimistic clash to our perception of life

Thanks to
Dr. Alexey Shaitan

For critically assessing our chances to create some ideas

Thanks to
Dr. Alexandr Tyakht and Mr. George Blanc

For helping us to develop an idea related to the cider microbiome. Unfortunately, we did not choose this idea due to the lack of time.

Thanks to
Sagi Sheinkman

For helping us organize a Jamboree meet-up in November and sharing a helpful contact for giving a lecture to the students.

Featured Sponsors

Helicon and esp. Mr. Anatoly Smirnov

They gave us laboratory equipment, money to pay all the fees and helped us contact government agencies connected with animals and their diagnostics

Biovitrum

Gave us money for team polos and software

Diaem

Gave us laboratory equipment

Regarding the synthetic biology class

Sadly, none of our team member's universities offer classes in synthetic biology.

The project’s timeline

February

Decided to participate in iGEM and started a team recruiting process

March - May

Conducted meetings with different scientists to find a PI and corporations for money-raising purposes. At the same time, we brainstormed a lot, beginning in March

May

After successfully finding a PI, developed a plan and schedule for our project

June - August

Started learning wet lab methods of synthetic biology while preparing for our lab work: synthesizing primers and ordering reagents and equipment

September

Began working in the lab on our project