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<li><b>Dr. Martin Henery</b>, Enterprise Academic Lecturer at the University of Manchester, Provided critisism and constructive feedback on our project from a consumer's point of view.</li> | <li><b>Dr. Martin Henery</b>, Enterprise Academic Lecturer at the University of Manchester, Provided critisism and constructive feedback on our project from a consumer's point of view.</li> | ||
<li><b>Dr. Robert Smith</b>, Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College London, Gave us important feedback on who would benefit from our Alcopatch during iGEM UK Meetup.</li> | <li><b>Dr. Robert Smith</b>, Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College London, Gave us important feedback on who would benefit from our Alcopatch during iGEM UK Meetup.</li> |
Revision as of 10:31, 2 October 2016
Project
- Dr. Adrian Jervis, Senior Experimental Officer, Offered guidance and advice on different molecular cloning methods, as well allowing us to use Synbiochem's plate reader.
- Daniel Han, Undergraduate Student, Helped during the intial stages of the project.
- Emily Sparkes, Postgraduate Research Student, Gave us general guidance during brainstorming sessions for our project.
- Evaldas Klumbys, Postgraduate Research Student, Offered insight as a previous iGEM team member and guided us during troubleshooting.
- Sarah Ying, Undergraduate Student, Helped during the intial stages of the project.
Lab
- Dr. Ashley Chessher, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Advised us on our primer design and plasmid construction.
- Dr. Gajendar Komati Reddy, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Assisted greatly with our project design and taught us useful lab techniques.
- Dr. Maiko Umemura, Visiting Research Fellow, Offered guidance and useful advice on general lab practices and handling of special lab hardwares.
- Dr. Mark Dunstan, Senior Experimental Officer, Assisted us with the use of plate reader in SynBioChem.
- Dr. Tanya Aspinall, Safety and Risk Manager of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Conducted a 2 hour safety course for the team prior to starting wet laboratory work.
- Lucas Krauss, Erasmus Student, Offered guidance and useful advice on general lab practices and handling of special lab hardwares.
- Matthew Cummings, Postgraduate Research Student, Offered guidance and useful advice on general lab practices and handling of special lab hardwares.
Difficult techniques
- Dean Uddin, Product Specialist of BMG Labtech, Assisted us with the setup of our loaned BMGLabtech plate reader.
Project advisors
- Professor Eriko Takano, Professor of Synthetic Biology, Director of Manchester Synthetic Biology Research Centre, SYNBIOCHEM, Guided the team greatly in every possible means to help us achieve our goals
- Professor Rainer Bretling, Professor of Systems Biology, Guided the team greatly in every possible means to help us achieve our goals
Project supervisors
- Dr. Nick Weise, Teaching and Postdoctoral Research Associate, Advised us on our pilot study design and plasmid construction.
- Marc Biarnes-Carrera, Postgraduate Research Student, Worked with us closely throughout the duration of project. Guided the team greatly in every possible means to help us achieve our goals.
- Ross Kent, Postgraduate Research Student, Assisted with our project design and during troubleshooting.
Finance
- Dr. Louise Barnes, Research Development Manager, Assisted with the external funding and general financial-related problems.
- Christopher Cowan ,Administration Assistant, Assisted with the registration, flight and accommodation bookings for Giant Jamboree in Boston.
Fundraising
- Cindy Wu, Co-Founder of Experiment, Assisted in our crowdfunding activity.
- Kiera Gould, Regular Giving Officer (Students, Staff & Young Alumni Division), Assisted in our crowdfunding activity.
- Lesley-Ann Miller, Communications Manager of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Offered guidance on public relation-related issues and directed us to speak to respective personnels for outreach purposes.
Human practices
- Professor Alan Dickson, Co-director of BioProNET, Offered guidance and gave us pointers for our project.
- Dr. Martin Henery, Enterprise Academic Lecturer at the University of Manchester, Provided critisism and constructive feedback on our project from a consumer's point of view.
- Dr. Robert Smith, Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College London, Gave us important feedback on who would benefit from our Alcopatch during iGEM UK Meetup.
- Andrea Vero, Intellectual Property Solicitor from Ward Hadaway, Provided suggestions regarding patency and legal issues about our project.
- Anna Russell, Journalist of HeartFM Broadcast, Offered a platform for us to communicate with the general public by featuring us on HeartFM.
- Anonymous, Member of Alcoholics Anonymous, Provided valuable insight into the feasibility of our project and shared opinions on alcohol-related issues.
- Anonymous, Police Community Officer, Provided valuable insight into alcohol-related problems in the local community.
- Bethany Abbit, Reporter of the Manchester Evening News, Offered a platform for us to communicate with the general public by featuring us in their newspaper and twice in their online articles.
- Carley Friedrich, Sales and Marketing Director, Provided critisism and constructive feedback on our project from a retailer point of view.
- Catherine Hodgson, Research Assistant of Addiction Dependency Solutions, Provided valuable insight into the feasibility of our project and shared opinions on alcohol-related issues.
- David Lloyd, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of FREDsense Technologies, Provided valuable insight into the industrial uses of biosensors.
- Eddie Garvey, Photographer of the Manchester Evening News, Offered a professional photoshoot and video recording session for the Manchester Evening News.
- James Morris, Director of Alcohol Academy, Provided valuable insight into the feasibility of our project and shared opinions on alcohol-related issues.
- Joanne Flannelley, Network Manager at BioProNET, Provided critisism and constructive feedback on our project from a consumer's point of view.
- Kelly O’brien, Drug and Alcohol Education Officer of Healthy Schools Manchester, Provided valuable insight into the feasibility of our project and shared opinions on alcohol-related issues.
- Lynn Sheppard, Director of Manchester Enterprise Centre, Provided valuable insight into the feasibility of our project and shared opinions on alcohol-related issues.
- Mark Wojcik, Chief Technology Officer of Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc., Provided critisism and constructive feedback on our project from a retailer point of view.
- Matthew Handley, Patent Attorney of Venner Shipley, Gave us a better understanding on patent and provided intellectual property advice.
- Sarah Shephard, Network Manager at NPronet, Offered advice about our project and discussed the advantages and disadvantages.
Wiki
- Kimi de Mora, Director of Development at iGEM Foundation, Provided valuable advice for our wikipage design
Modelling
- Aliah Hawari, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Offered guidance on different modelling approaches and helped with scientific communication among team members
- Aretti , Postgraduate Research Student, Offered a great introduction to the topic area which then formed the very basis of our project