The following organizations and individuals have supported Purdue iGEM through generous financial contributions. Thanks to these individuals contributions we can begin conducting the wet lab work for phase two of our project.
Purdue College of Engineering
Purdue College of Agriculture
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Purdue Vice Provost of Undergraduate Research
Purdue Honors College
Purdue Engineering Student Council
Mark Aronson (Purdue iGEM Alumn)
Faculty Advisors and Graduate Students
Dr. Kari Clase (Faculty Advisor): Assisted in preliminary project design and provided guidance and feedback during biweekly meetings.
Dr. Marshall Porterfield (Faculty Advisor): Provided guidance and feedback during biweekly meetings as well as helped troubleshoot experiments.
Academic Consultants
The following organizations and individuals have supported Purdue iGEM through generous financial contributions. Thanks to these individuals contributions, we successfully completed Phase I and Phase II of our project.
Phase I:
Dr. Steven Werely
Dr. Jacqueline Linnes
Dr. Eljse Pienaar
Dr. Saheed Mohammadi
Dr. Frederick Gates
Nidhi Menon (iGEM Alumn)
Mark Aaronson (iGEM Alumn)
Phase II:
Dr. Esteban Ramirez
Dr. Rebecca Wilkes
COVID-19 Testimonials
The following individuals had professions or personal experiences that were greatly impacted by COVID-19. Their courage and willingness to share their stories with us greatly improved our perspective regarding the implementation of our project as well as the engineering design. Their stories and how they impacted our project are documented more in depth on our Integrated Human Practices Page.
Radha Venkat
Lorenzo McGhie
Omar Gillani
Team Roles
Illustrations and Web Design
The following individuals are responsible for the graphics animations, and coding of the website.
Xander Weintraut (Web Developer): Responsible for the coding and styling of the Wiki website and worked on developing structure of web pages in 2020.
Hailey Szadowski: Helped re-format and update wiki pages for 2021 results and changes to project.
Madhu Prakash (Graphic designer): Developed all visual graphics for the Wiki and assisted in formatting and web page styling in 2020.
All Team Members: Helped write Wiki content.
Argonaute Biologics Team
The following individuals designed all biological components of the project for use in phase II.
Miles Thompson: Worked on developing the integrated code for RPA primer designs and molecular beacon design in 2020.
Hailey Szadowski (Team Leader): Utilized the molecular beacon outputs from the code and used Quickfold to analyze all of the outputs and identified the required parameters for the optimal beacon structure. Lead wet-lab work over Summer 2021, coordinated schedules for each member, helped debug protocols and interpret results, made updates to original Summer 2021 research plan, helped train new members, and completed wet lab protocols if necessary. Oversaw all biologics work in general.
Grace Lee (Team Leader): Worked with Madhu on developing the biological part constructs for phase 2. Trained new members and completed wet-lab protocols with help of Grace Cook and Victor.
Madhu Prakash (Team Leader): Worked with Grace on designing and ordering all necessary primers and biological parts for phase II of the project. Proposed Summer 2021 research plan.
Grace Cook: Performed wet-lab protocols.
Victor Pacheco: Performed wet-lab protocols.
Hardware Design
The following individuals designed the physical device to be used in this project and all its necessary hardware components.
Jerome Sendon: Mechanical engineering design consultant who assisted in the design and CAD modelling of the original microfluidic device.
Madhu Prakash: Worked with Andres and Jerome to design the microfluidic device taking into account various fluidics principles.
Swagat Bhattacharyya: Electrical engineering team member responsible for the design and development of the portable electrical heater for the microfluidic chip.
Matthew Chan: Conducted research along with Andres regarding fluid dynamics.
Andres Dextre: Conducted research along with Matthew regarding fluid dynamics.
Human Practices
The following individuals assisted in the coordination of both interviews with professionals and arranged collaborative efforts between iGEM teams.
Karthik Ravichandran: Responsible for arranging meetings to interview professionals. Wrote and asked questions for interviews.
Hailey Szadowski: Arranged collaboration meeting and effort with WLC-Milwaukee. Attended interviews with Karthik to ask questions and take notes.
Madelyn Whitaker: Helped brainstorm questions for interviews and take notes. Helped write human practices wiki pages. Reached out to many other iGEM teams to find those interested in collabortion.
Akila Abeyaratna: Helped brainstorm questions for interviews and take notes. Helped write human practices wiki pages.
Rachel Zheng: Helped write human practices wiki pages.
Raj Balasamy: Helped write human practices wiki pages.
