Team:UCC Ireland/Attributions
Attributions
Senior Lecturer, School of Microbiology & School of Pharmacy, UCC
Principal Investigator, Cork Cancer Research Centre
PhD candidate, Cork Cancer Research Centre
- Researched and designed projects along with PI Cormac Gahan, SI Mark Tangney and Yensi Flores.
- Secured funding for project from various organisations (listed below).
- Arranged collaboration with Norwich iGEM team.
- Assisted in laboratory work (particularly in protein work, cell culture experiments and validation experiments).
- Conducted iRFP cell culture experiments to validate its function as in vitro reporter.
- Conducted LJM11 protein analysis experiments.
- Worked on CRISPRi experiments.
-Contacted Alvaro Accosta and spoke with him about the issue of distributing the vaccine.
- Planned and developed the various subprojects.
- Assisted in laboratory work.
- Brainstorming public engagement and outreach opportunities for team.
- Presentation design and delivery in local secondary schools with other team members.
- Worked at designing and producing the Golden Rice video.
- Co-managed UCC iGEM’s social media accounts.
- Carried out interlab study with Seema Subedi.
- Collaboration work; experiment video with NRP UEA iGEM and articles for iGEM XMU newsletter.
- Helped IndieBio EU in running of their Demo day and Summer Party.
- Presented at the Giant Jamboree.
- Helped to carry out cloning and assisted in the design of cell culture experiments. Assisted in general laboratory work.
- Performed along with James Meeke in our song “I Like It Lactis” on UCC Radio.
- Acted as a point of contact between computer scientist Paul Ryan and the rest of the team for the wiki design.
- Presented about iGEM at a Summer Research Symposium in UCC.
- Helped Indie bio EU in running of their Demo day and Summer Party.
- Did a charity skydive alongside Seema Subedi, James Meeke and Donnacha Fitzgerald in aid of Breakthrough Cancer Research as part of our charity work.
- Helped IndieBio EU in running of their Demo day and Summer Party by managing their Periscope live recording; interviewed numerous Scientists and Investors.
- Cloning and submission of biobrick parts.
- Presented at the Giant Jamboree.
- Assisted in laboratory work.
- Conducted a research on Leishmaniasis in Nepal.
- Carried out Interlab study with Regina Walsh.
- Worked on designing and producing video on Golden Rice for Public Engagement.
- Designed a presentation and delivered a talk to local secondary schools with other team members.
- Did collaboration work with NRP-UEA-Norwich Team and XMU-China Team with fellow team member, Regina Walsh.
- Co-managed UCC iGEM’s Social media accounts.
- Animated a lyrics video for our song “I Like It Lactis”.
- Designed the team logo, banner and other animated posts.
- Helped IndieBio EU in running of their Demo day and Summer Party by managing their Periscope live recording; interviewed numerous Scientists and Investors.
- Did a charity skydive alongside Donnacha Fitzgerald, James Meeke and Kevin Ryan in aid of Breakthrough Cancer Research and, also donated 15 inches of hair to Rapunzel foundation as part of our charity work.
- Presented at the Giant Jamboree.
- Assisted in general laboratory work (ligations, transformations, restriction mapping, PCR etc.)
- Assisted in research into selection of tumour associated antigen.
- Wrote and performed “I like it Lactis” song along with Kevin Ryan and Renilson Mapele, and spoke on radio interview.
- Gave presentation on synthetic biology at a local secondary school along with Seema Subedi and Regina Walsh.
- Did charity skydive with Seema Subedi, Donnacha Fitzgerald and Kevin Ryan in aid of Breakthrough Cancer Research and also took part in the “Colour Dash” run in aid of Irish Cancer Society along with Regina Walsh, Brandon Malone, Amy Keane and Leanne O’Sullivan.
- Presented at the Giant Jamboree.
- Assisted in general laboratory work (ligations, transformations, restriction mapping, PCR, protein work, cell culture etc.)
- Did charity skydive with Seema Subedi, James Meeke and Kevin Ryan in aid of Breakthrough Cancer Research and also took part in the “Colour Dash” run in aid of Irish Cancer Society along with Regina Walsh, Brandon Malone, Amy Keane and Leanne O’Sullivan.
- Presented about iGEM at a Summer Research Symposium in UCC.
- Helped Indie bio EU in running of their Demo day and Summer Party.
- Assisted with preparation and submission for sequencing.
- Cloning and submission of biobrick parts.
- Assisted in general laboratory work (ligations, transformations, restriction mapping, PCR etc.)
- Helped Indie bio EU in running of their Demo day and Summer Party.
- Brainstorming public engagement and outreach opportunities for team.
- Presentation design and delivery in local secondary schools with other team members.
- Ordered team merchandise.
- Helped in the design of the wiki.
- Brainstorming public engagement and outreach opportunities for team.
- Helped in the design of team merchandise.
- Helped the team outside the lab, by teaching kids about synthetic biology with fun practical activities at a Summer Camp.
- As a member of iGEM teams both in 2014 and 2015, gave advice to this year’s team.
- As a member of last year’s iGEM team, gave advice to this year’s team.
- Brainstorming public engagement and outreach opportunities for team.
- Created the wiki site.
Acknowledgements
School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork - Allowing the iGEM team to work in the school of Biochemistry labs throughout the summer.
College of Medicine & Health - Supported our team financially.
Noreen Casey and Jenny Duane, Technical staff in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork - Provided training in biochemistry and molecular biology techniques throughout the summer.
Eli Lilly - Generously provided financial support to our team.
Janssen - Generously provided financial support to our team.
Cathal Garvey, Director of IndieBio EU - Collaborated with us in organising the IndieBio EU 2016 Summer Party & Demo Dinner. Introduced us to the IndieBio teams and the synthetic biology community in Cork.
Prateek Garg, former iGEM member, Paris Bettencourt 2015 and CEO of Peer-To-Peer Probiotics of IndieBio EU 2016 - Gave us advice on our wiki and integrated human practices.
Fyffes - Generously provided financial support to our team.
GenScript - Generously provided financial support to accelerate the development of our CRISPRi system.
Synenergene - Generously provided financial support to our team. Dr. Todd Kuiken of Synenergene gave us invaluable advice on our outreach and human practices.
Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, UCC - Generously provided financial support to the team.
Cork Cancer Research Centre (CCRC) - Allowing the iGEM team to work in their lab over the summer. Provided us with RAW 264.7 macrophages for use in our cell culture experiments.
Dr. Sadeeq Ur Rahman, postdoctoral research fellow, UCC - Provided us with L.lactis for our project. Helped with troubleshooting our cloning process.
Stephanie Davies, PhD candidate, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC - Provided us with invaluable advice when troubleshooting our Gibson assembly and transformations.
Dr Elizabeth Rettedal, Cork Cancer Research Centre - Helped in designing primers for sequencing and in the analysis of sequencing results.
Prateek Garg, former iGEM member, Paris Bettencourt 2015 - Gave us advice on our wiki and integrated human practices.
Dr. Paul Young, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC - Gave advice on labwork
Professor Tommie McCarthy, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC - Advice on fundraising took photos of the team for the wiki.
Sinead O’Loughlin, research assistant, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC - for use of their electroporator for transformation into L.lactis.
Dr. Justin McCarthy - Advice on fundraising.
