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<p>Rai, as an Advisor, assisted the team with troubleshooting chassis (<em>B. subtilis</em>) experiments. As well, she provided mentorship for the Human Practices aspect of the project by editing our Policy Brief, suggesting ideas for outreach, and collaborations with other teams.</p><br> | <p>Rai, as an Advisor, assisted the team with troubleshooting chassis (<em>B. subtilis</em>) experiments. As well, she provided mentorship for the Human Practices aspect of the project by editing our Policy Brief, suggesting ideas for outreach, and collaborations with other teams.</p><br> | ||
<p><strong>Ainna Randwana</strong></p> | <p><strong>Ainna Randwana</strong></p> | ||
− | <p>Ainna provided mentorship in the development of the chassis and Human Practices aspects of the project. Her artwork was used in some of our outreach efforts, such as the | + | <p>Ainna provided mentorship in the development of the chassis and Human Practices aspects of the project. Her artwork was used in some of our outreach efforts, such as the Adults Only Night: Hack It with TELUS Spark.</p> |
<h1>Technical Support:</h1> | <h1>Technical Support:</h1> | ||
<h2><u>Chassis:</u></h2> | <h2><u>Chassis:</u></h2> | ||
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<h2><u>Outreach:</u></h2> | <h2><u>Outreach:</u></h2> | ||
<p><strong>Eduardo Villarreal-Barajas and Nicolas Ploquin </strong></p> | <p><strong>Eduardo Villarreal-Barajas and Nicolas Ploquin </strong></p> | ||
− | <p> | + | <p>Eduardo and Nicolas planned and executed a tour of the Tom Baker Cancer Institute for our team where we gathered data about the usage of ionizing radiation in a medical and therapeutic context. Here, the team learned where off target effects can be minimized through the use of radio protective drugs.</p><br> |
<p><strong>Minds in Motion</strong></p> | <p><strong>Minds in Motion</strong></p> | ||
− | <p>Minds in Motion | + | <p>Minds in Motion is a camp run at the University of Calgary that runs during the summer months. The group provided our team with an outreach opportunity to interact and educate children between the ages of 8-14 years about the emerging field of synthetic biology.</p><br> |
− | <p><strong>Beakerhead</strong></p> | + | <p><strong>Beakerhead and the Biological Sciences Graduate Association of the University of Calgary</strong></p> |
− | <p>The team was provided with an outreach opportunity to interact with children and adults | + | <p>The team was provided with an outreach opportunity to interact with children and adults through glow-in-the-dark and fluorescent painting with genetically-engineered bacteria.</p><br> |
− | <p><strong> | + | <p><strong>TELUS Spark</strong></p> |
− | <p> | + | <p>TELUS Spark provided the team with an outreach opportunity to educate adults about synthetic biology and DNA extraction through their Adults Only Night: Hack It event.</p> |
− | <h2>Policy Brief:</h2> | + | <h2><u>Policy Brief:</u></h2> |
− | <p><strong>Agnes Klein</strong></p> | + | <p><strong>Dr. Agnes Klein, Director, Centre for the Evaluation of Radiopahrmaceuticals and Biotherapeutic Products in the Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate</strong></p> |
− | <p> | + | <p>Dr. Klein helped us initiate and review our Policy Brief concerning the regulations of cell-based therapeutics in Canada.</p> |
<p><strong>Dr. Walter Glennon, </strong><strong>Dr Gregory Hagen</strong><strong>, and Dr. Fabiola Ting</strong></p> | <p><strong>Dr. Walter Glennon, </strong><strong>Dr Gregory Hagen</strong><strong>, and Dr. Fabiola Ting</strong></p> | ||
<p>They reviewed the Policy Brief on cell-based therapeutics in Canada, and provided us with suggestions and feedback that we used to improve upon the Policy Brief.</p> | <p>They reviewed the Policy Brief on cell-based therapeutics in Canada, and provided us with suggestions and feedback that we used to improve upon the Policy Brief.</p> |
Revision as of 16:49, 14 October 2016
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Attributions
General Support:
Daniel Ziemianowicz
Daniel was a Teaching Assistant of the UofC_Calgary 2016 iGEM team. He was familiar in many of the different parts of our project and provided coaching to the various subgroups working on different objectives. He also used his experience in mass spectroscopy to help us with quantifying mBBI in two important assays of our project. He helped us determine the concentration of mBBI in mouse blood (in vivo testing) and the levels of mBBI secretion from the genetically engineered chassis, Bacillus subtilis.
Nicholas Jette
Nicholas was a Teaching Assistant for the team. He was a great aid in the execution of the assays that we wished to run to characterize mBBI. He trained members of the team in tissue culture and conducting clonogenic assays.
Rai Chaudhuri
Rai, as an Advisor, assisted the team with troubleshooting chassis (B. subtilis) experiments. As well, she provided mentorship for the Human Practices aspect of the project by editing our Policy Brief, suggesting ideas for outreach, and collaborations with other teams.
Ainna Randwana
Ainna provided mentorship in the development of the chassis and Human Practices aspects of the project. Her artwork was used in some of our outreach efforts, such as the Adults Only Night: Hack It with TELUS Spark.
Technical Support:
Chassis:
Dr. Sui-Lam Wong
Dr. Wong provided the team with protocols for various types of growth media such as super rich medium, sporulation medium, and 2X SG medium. He also provided us with protocols for inducing the competency of B. subtilis and how to prepare effective glycerol stocks. Most importantly, Dr. Wong kindly provided us with B. subtilis WB800 cells to work with for our project.
Dennis Kim
Dennis assisted the team in troubleshooting for comK gene transformations and integration into B. subtilis.
Nic Sieben
Nic provided the team with our plasmid extraction protocol that we used to perform most of our minipreps.
Biotarget:
Dr. Susan Lees-Miller
Dr. Lees-Miller's ab kindly donated the mammalian cell line HCT116 that our team used. She also provided a few members of the team with access to her gamma cell irradiator, both of which were a great help to us in characterizing mBBI.
Dr. Aaron Goodarzi
Dr. Aaron Goodarzi helped conceptualize our project by introducing the team to soybean-derived radioprotective peptides. He helped us brainstorm the list of experiments we needed to conduct in order to characterize mBBI. Dr. Goodarzi also kindly donated the primary fibroblast cell line 1BR3 to us and trained members of the team in conducting H2AX foci assays. He was critical to the process of characterization of mBBI.
Shaun Moore
Shaun mentored members of the team in conducting and troubleshooting the double strand break assay, which helped us characterize mBBI.
Karolin Klement
Karolin helped us with the execution of the clonogenics assay and provided us with advice when we switched our cell lines from HCT116 to 1BR3. Since primary cell lines have different requirements than cancer cells, she showed members of the team the requirements to run a clonogenic assay with 1BR3 cell line.
Device:
Dr. Amir Nezhad
Dr. Nezhad offered counselling on the early development of the project and referred us to various professor as possible mentors.
Dr. Colin Dalton
Dr. Dalton provided the team with an insight into microneedles and their inadequacy for our project's adjective. He advised us to change of design of delivery of our system from microneedles to a transdermal patch.
Dr. Uttandaraman U.T. Sundararaj
Dr. Sundararaj offered technical support with the development of the patch prototype by providing us with insights on thermoforming and properties of polymers, and how we could incorporate these methods for small scale production.
Robert Mayall
Robert offered counselling on our size-controlling permeable membrane experiment and suggested alternative materials that we could use for our delivery system.
Dr. Justin MacCallum
Dr. MacCallum mentored members of the team on molecular simulations of mBBI delivery through a lipid bilayer to simulate its transit through the layers of the skin.
Alina Kunitskaya
Alina mentored members of the team on the delivery device design process, troubleshooting visual modelling and providing alternative opinions on the project design. She also acted as our contact within NASA and helped to schedule a meeting with Dr. Cagle.
3M
3M provided us with the materials required for the production of our prototype for in vivo testing in mice models. The company also fabricated a prototype in their lab for the team to use as a demo.
Dow Corning
Dow Corning provided the team with adhesives for prototype manufacturing for in vivo testing in mice models.
in vivo Testing:
Dr. Craig Jenne and Members of the Jenne Lab
Dr. Jenne has a license to work with mice models for scientific purposes. He assisted the team by submitting the ethics approval for in vivo testing of our patch, mBBI, and B. subtilis in three mice models. Members of the team filled out the ethics application but it was submitted under Dr. Jenne's name. Once ethics approval had been received, Dr. Jenne kindly donated 18 BALB/c mice for testing. Rachelle Davis (Graduate Student) and Mandy Tse (Lab Manager) handled all mice (adhering patches, regular check up on mice health and behaviour, blood extraction, and euthanization). Dr. Seok-Joo Kim (Post-Doctoral Fellow), Rachelle Davis, and Dr. Jenne performed mice tissue analyses (tissue fixing, immunohistochemical staining, and imaging).
Wiki:
Patrick Wu
Patrick provided the team with an iGEM Wiki design seminar. He also gave us valuable visual presentation tips.
Human Practices Support:
Outreach:
Eduardo Villarreal-Barajas and Nicolas Ploquin
Eduardo and Nicolas planned and executed a tour of the Tom Baker Cancer Institute for our team where we gathered data about the usage of ionizing radiation in a medical and therapeutic context. Here, the team learned where off target effects can be minimized through the use of radio protective drugs.
Minds in Motion
Minds in Motion is a camp run at the University of Calgary that runs during the summer months. The group provided our team with an outreach opportunity to interact and educate children between the ages of 8-14 years about the emerging field of synthetic biology.
Beakerhead and the Biological Sciences Graduate Association of the University of Calgary
The team was provided with an outreach opportunity to interact with children and adults through glow-in-the-dark and fluorescent painting with genetically-engineered bacteria.
TELUS Spark
TELUS Spark provided the team with an outreach opportunity to educate adults about synthetic biology and DNA extraction through their Adults Only Night: Hack It event.
Policy Brief:
Dr. Agnes Klein, Director, Centre for the Evaluation of Radiopahrmaceuticals and Biotherapeutic Products in the Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate
Dr. Klein helped us initiate and review our Policy Brief concerning the regulations of cell-based therapeutics in Canada.
Dr. Walter Glennon, Dr Gregory Hagen, and Dr. Fabiola Ting
They reviewed the Policy Brief on cell-based therapeutics in Canada, and provided us with suggestions and feedback that we used to improve upon the Policy Brief.
Collaborators:
Guanajuato Mexico
The team set up a collaboration with the Mexico iGEM team to create and execute a curriculum to educate first year university students on the basis of Synthetic biology.
University of Rice
A few members of the team contributed to their Humans of Synthetic Biology project by providing them with the story of they joined iGEM.
Mind Fuel
Mind Fuel provided the team with the opportunity to meet with international iGEM judges and receive critical feedback on our project. Also, they worked with us to plan and execute aGEM, a competition between all Alberta iGEM high school and collegiate teams.
Team:
Dr. Mayi Arcellana-Panlilio
Adjunct Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Dr. Mayi was our principal investigator for this project. She helped us conceptualize the project idea, obtained funding, and provided both technical and conceptual support in all aspects of the project
Christine Phan
BSc. Biological Sciences
Team Member
Christine performed assays for material testing, created Solidworks model and Autodesk Maya animation of the design of the delivery system, and collaborated on the design process for the physical delivery system. Also, she designed wiki wireframes and the final presentation format.
David Nguyen
BSc. Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Team Member
David undertook material research, reached out to companies to obtain materials, designed and fabricated a physical prototype for in vivo testing. He also initialized the diffusion mathematical model, and compiled device sub team notebook and results. Additionally, David applied on behalf of the team for travel cost funding.
Elena Fekete
BSc. Cellular, Molecular, and Microbial Biology
Team Member
Elena planned outreach activities, and worked on research and editing for the Policy Brief. Also, she helped to set up interviews with professionals.
James Johnston
BHSc. Biomedical Sciences
Team Member
James worked on determining the growth of Bacillus
subtilis with Rachelle. Also, he worked on the cloning and eventual expression of BBI into both E.coli and B. subtilis. As well, he assisted with the layout and coding of the wiki.
Miriam Li
BHSc. Biomedical Sciences
Team Member
Miriam worked on HCT116 and 1BR3 clonogenics assays. She aided in the monitoring of the administration of patch and blood draws for the in vivo testing in mice models. Also, she worked on the research, writing and editing of the policy brief, set up meetings with professionals, and assisted in the organization of the aGEM competition.
Neliza Mendoza
BSc. Civil Engineering
Team Member
Neliza took charge of the analytical modelling for the diffusion of BBI through the skin using MATLAB, performed adhesive assays for patch laminates used in prototyping for in vivo testing in mice models, and compiled an information manual for our biotherapeutic device for potential user reference. Also, she set up meeting with professionals in the engineering field.
Nicholas D’Aleo-Sotas
BSc. Cellular Molecular Microbial Biology, Team Member
Nick worked on HCT116 and Fibroblast clonogenics. majority of the tissue culture for clonogenics and H2AX. Also, he performed Bacillus subtilis transformation protocols
and contributed to parts submissions work. As well, he acted as a back up Wiki
coder by assisting with the WikiFreeze coding.
Nilesh Sharma
BSc. Neuroscience
Team Member
Nilesh worked on the immunoflourescence assay (except counting), in vivo prototype testing in mice models by writing up content for the ethics approval, and observing patch application. Also, he worked on mathematical modelling of BBI diffusion through the skin.
Nishi Patel
BSc. Cellular Molecular Microbial Biology
Team Member
Nishi designed genetic constructs for BBI. Also, she headed the in vivo prototype testing in mice models, wrote up the content for the ethics approval, designed all the treatments for the prototype testing, oversaw the manufacture and administration of transdermal patches on mice, and worked with members of the Jenne lab to analyze mice tissue for any possible immunological responses. As well, helped design the policy brief, set up meeting with professionals in the medical field, and assisted in the organizing of aGEM with Miriam and Tiffany.
Noshin Karim
BSc. Mechanical Engineering
Team Member
Noshin took charge of the numerical modelling of diffusion of BBI through the physical delivery system using MATLAB. She led discussions on the design process for the physical delivery system, researched into materials, helped with developing SolidWorks model of design of the delivery system. Also, she combined mathematical models and lab experiment results to determine the functionality of the transdermal patch.
Rachelle Varga
BSc. Cellular, Molecular, and Microbial Biology
Team Member
Rachelle determined the growth rates of Bacillus subtilis at varying temperatures and using different media.
Also, she worked on developing usable ComK genetic construct and cloning it in E. coli and B. subtilis. As well, she organized outreach events and ran all forms of social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram).
Shalpinder Dhothar
BSc. Biological Sciences
Team Member
Shalpinder arranged and conducted meetings with professionals, planned outreach programs, assisted with collaboration work, and worked on the research, writing and editing of the policy brief.
Siddhartha Goutam
BHSc. Biomedical Sciences
Team Member
Sid worked on the clonogenic assay with HCT116 cells, the double strand break assay using immunofluorescence, and the initial planning and research of the diffusion mathematical modeling.
Syed Jafri
BHSc. Bioinformatics
Team Member
Syed coded the Wiki, and worked in immunofluorescence assays using γ-H2AX and 53BP1 antibodies to visualize double strand breaks.
Tiffany Dang
BSc. Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Team Member
Tiffany collaborated on the design process for the physical delivery system, created Solidworks model of the design, and performed material testing. Also, set up meeting with professionals, consulted on the policy brief, helped with outreach programs and organized collaboration, and helped organized aGEM with Miriam and Nishi.