Team:UNESP Brazil/Attributions

Attributions


TEAM ROLES

Team Leader: Isadora Gori

Wet Lab: Celso Piage and Isadora Gori

Modeling: Ana Luiza, Celso Piage, Isadora Gori and Larissa Crispim.

Bioinformatics: Ana Luiza and Larissa Crispim

Treasurer: Letícia Galdino and João Francisco

Hardware: Ana Luiza and Larissa Crispim

Human Practices: Ana Luiza, Celso Piage, Isadora Gori, João Francisco, João Monteiro, Larissa Crispim, Letícia Galdino, Mariana Thiele and Vitor Almado

Education and Public Engagement: Ana Luiza, Celso Piage, Isadora Gori, João Francisco, João Monteiro, Larissa Crispim, Letícia Galdino, Mariana Thiele and Vitor Almado

Marketing: Isadora Gori, João Monteiro, Letícia Galdino and Mariana Thiele

Wiki: Celso Piage, Isadora Gori, João Monteiro, Letícia Galdino, Mariana Thiele and Vitor Almado


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GENERAL SUPPORT

     Prof. Danielle Biscaro Pedrolli and Prof. Marcel Otavio Cerri, our PIs that helped and guided us a lot throughout this journey.


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PROJECT SUPPORT

     Provided us day-to-day support in the lab: Flávio Pereira Picheli, technician at the Genetic and Enzymatic Engineering Laboratory at the Enginnering of Bioprocess and Biotechnology Department, Graciely Correa, post doctor student and member of the Synthetic Biology Lab Group, Milca Lins, post doctor student and member of the Synthetic Biology Lab Group, Maria Cecília de Souza Lelis, master student of Biosciences and Biotechnology Applied to Pharmacy and member of the Synthetic Biology Lab Group, and Victor Nunes, Bioprocess and Biotechnology Engineering student.


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

     We'd like to thank our PIs, Instructors, and Advisors for all the guidance and support that we received throughout this years. Your advice and insights were fundamental to our project and to accomplish great things together.

     Thank you all the Bioprocess and Biotechnology Department, the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Sao Paulo State University for all their support.

     A huge thank you to our sponsors, who believed in us and made it possible for us take our project to iGEM 2021.

     Thank you Thomas Knight, Co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks for your advice and support in times of need.

     Finally, a huge and special thank you to everyone that supported our fundraising campaign and helped us in any way. A special thanks to David Roberto R. Soares da Silva and Clarissa Jucá Montenegro Gallo. We are forever grateful!


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FUNDRAISING

     Considering the economic crisis that Brazil is facing and the budget cuts in investments in science and technology, every move towards captivating more public engagement and collaboration became even more relevant to achieve our goal: participate in the Giant Jamboree in 2021. Therefore, as difficult as it is to raise money in our country, we used creativity and mobilized all members from the team to do our best, and take advantage from all opportunities that would come in the short period of time we had and in this scenario of shortage investments.

     To begin, we started a crowdfunding in order to receive financial support from those who identify with our purpose, project and mission, besides been interested in giving a boost in Brazilian research, inviting them to donate any value, and in return we would give rewards.

    

    

     In the second semester of this year, we gathered some abilities and acknowledgment from our team members to create paid mini-courses, hosted in our university. Inspired by one of our former-members, we saw the opportunity to show how to prepare a presentation, as a theme for the first mini-course.

    

    

     Furthermore, we offered another workshop: “Introduction to dynamic protein simulation”, an extremely relevant topic for our team.

    

    

     In these workshops graduate students from School of Pharmaceutical Science, Social Science, Dentistry, Chemistry Institute- Araraquara, students from other universities and professionals participated as well.

     In the end, we raised a great amount of money with the help of our sponsors, and it is well-timed to remember we are very grateful for all who donated in our crowdfunding, bought our sweets and participated in the workshops, as well every single one that helped us to spread our project!


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