General Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the following people for their help all along our project and their support:
Center for Research and interdisciplinarity
External people
Host lab and the CRI
We want to thank the CRI (Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires) and INSERM for kindly hosting us during our project, providing us laboratory facilities and insightful discussion with researchers of the CRI community.
We also would like to thank our PIs Ariel Lindner and Jake Wintermute as well as our mentors Aya Gomaa and Alexis Casas for their help during our project.
Grants
Safety & Security Grant
This is the first year that iGEM’s Safety and Security Program, with thanks to Open Philanthropy, awarded 5 grants of $5000 to teams working on the possible technical advances in biosafety. Our team was selected as one of the 5 winners of this Grant (description below).
This grant allowed us to move forward in several parts of our project. As an example, we were able to test various materials and pieces of equipment for our filtering system we would not have access to otherwise.
Impact Grant
To take our project to the next level, iGEM, with the support of the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, also decided to distribute $2,500 grants to 90 teams for the first time this year. Our project was selected by the committee and this grant helped us to cover the fees for our participation in the 2021 Giant Jamboree.