Team:Stony Brook/Attributions

iGEM SBU 2021

Attributions

Attributions

Advisors, Research Support, and Professional Advice

We would like to thank these individuals for advising and supporting our project:

John Peter Gergen
Advisor
Stony Brook University
Dr. Gergen provided us with a laboratory space, kept us on track of deadlines, and was our guide through the whole iGEM journey.
Gabor Balazsi
Advisor
Stony Brook University
Dr. Balazsi provided advice on plasmid design and project development.
Steven Glynn
Advisor
Stony Brook University
Dr. Glynn helped us troubleshoot wet lab protocols, provided reagents, and helped us design our plasmids.
Joshua Rest
Researcher
Stony Brook University
Dr. Rest provided feedback and suggestions during the spring reading course and when we were developing our project.
Xinwei Mao
Researcher
Stony Brook University
Dr. Mao provided her expertise in wastewater treatment systems and helped us develop our project implementation.
Michael Airola
Researcher
Stony Brook University
Dr. Airola provided his expertise in lipid /membrane biology and helped us foresee potential issues with MlrA expression and localization.
Christopher Gobler
Researcher
Stony Brook University
Dr. Gobler advised us on which implementation method would be best and gave us ideas on how to test microcystin levels.
Douglas Browning
Researcher
University of Birmingham, UK
Dr. Browning generously sent us pDOC-K and pACBSR plasmids and provided protocols and advice for the creation of the TatExpress strain.
Jessica Seeliger
Researcher
Stony Brook University
Dr. Seeliger allowed us to use the NanoDrop and plate reader in her lab.
Mary Lou Previti
Research Associate
Stony Brook University
Mary Lou Previti gave us NanoDrop training and helped troubleshoot wet lab issues.
Lucas Merlo
Assistant Curator
Stony Brook University
Lucas Merlo helped provide supplies and resources to our team.
Mary A. Bernero
Head Curator
Stony Brook University
Mary Bernero helped us with procuring reagents and provided us with lab equipment.

Special Thanks

We would like to give special thanks to previous iGEM team members AJ Sillato and Chris Helenek, who never hesitated to answer our questions or give advice, and were very generous with their time. We would also like to thank members of the 2020 iGEM team for being teaching assistants for our Spring reading course and helping during the developmental stages of our project. Also, we would like to thank Dr. Aurelia Battesi and Dr. Nadim Majdalani from the NIH, Bethesda for providing us the BTH101 E. coli strain at no cost. Finally, we would like to thank the 2018 and 2019 iGEM teams for allowing us to modify their wiki stylesheets and templates and Lia Parkin for her help with the plate reader. Without their help, our project would not have been where it is today!

Student Roles

Name Roles
Nabeel Farrukh Nabeel was a team leader and primarily responsible for wet lab experiments, but helped with dry lab, designing the wiki, and presenting at outreach events. He designed the anchoring construct.
Joelle El Hamouche Joelle was a team leader and responsible for wet lab experiments. She also worked on the protocols for the PP1 assay, designing the wiki, and helped with Heera and Nicole's construct.
Michael Fung Michael was responsible for creating and designing the wiki. For wet lab, he cultured bacteria and studied papers to assist with the development of the project.
Heera Bandi Heera was responsible for wet lab experiments, including nanodropping and running gels. She also designed the detection system and contributed to outreach.
Abhishek Cherath Abhishek worked on the dry lab model and set up our Github.
Nicole Gladstein Nicole was wet lab team leader and responsible for experiments, including genome extraction. She also designed the TatExpress construct, produced a detailed lab workflow, and created all the graphics.
Annie Lin Annie cultured bacteria and coordinated communication with previous team members.
Elizabeth Tulchinsky Elizabeth was involved with outreach and helped with the peer review journal.
Asad Nabi Asad was the dry lab and modeling team leader. He worked on writing the deterministic models to showcase potential implementations of our solution.
Jiahan Yang Jiahan was responsible for wet lab experiments, helped troubleshoot issues in the lab, and studied papers to help develop our project.
Lamisa Musarat Lamisa was outreach leader and in charge of organizing and presenting at outreach events. She managed collaborations and our social media accounts, kept up communications, and took the lead on the promotional video.
Nghi Huynh Nghi helped with dry lab coding, troubleshooting, and the wiki.