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     <li><b>Professor Eriko Takano</b>, Professor of Synthetic Biology, Director of SynBioChem. Guided the team greatly in every possible manner to help us achieve our goals</li>
     <li><b>Professor Rainer Bretling</b>, Professor of Systems Biology. Guided the team greatly in every possible manner to help us achieve our goals</li>
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Revision as of 14:00, 17 October 2016

Manchester iGEM 2016


Attributions

Project advisors

  • Professor Eriko Takano, Professor of Synthetic Biology, Director of SynBioChem. Guided the team greatly in every possible manner to help us achieve our goals
  • Professor Rainer Breitling, Professor of Systems Biology. Guided the team greatly in every possible manner 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 the project. Guided the team greatly in every possible manner to help us achieve our goals.
  • Ross Kent, Postgraduate Research Student. Assisted with our project design and during troubleshooting.

Project planning

  • 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 hardware.
  • Dr. Mark Dunstan, Senior Experimental Officer. Assisted us with the use of the 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, Laboratory Intern. Offered guidance and useful advice on general lab practices and handling of special lab hardware.
  • Matthew Cummings, Postgraduate Research Student. Offered guidance and useful advice on general lab practices and handling of special lab hardwares.

Special techniques

  • Dean Uddin, Product Specialist of BMG Labtech. Assisted us with the setup of our loaned BMG Labtech plate reader.

Modelling

  • Aliah Hawari, Postdoctoral Research Associate. Offered guidance on different modelling approaches and helped with scientific communication among team members
  • Aretl Tsigkinopoulou, Postgraduate Research Student. Offered a great introduction to the topic area which then formed the very basis of our project

Human practices

  • Professor Alan Dickson, Co-director of BioProNET. Offered guidance and gave us pointers for our project.
  • Dr. Claire Doherty, Network Manager of IBCarb. Provided suggestions on getting external financial support to fund the team.
  • 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. Raja Mukherjee, Director of the National Clinic for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Psychiatrist. Gave us important feedback from a clinician's point of view on who would benefit from our AlcoPatch.
  • Dr. Robert Smith, Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College London, Gave us important feedback on who would benefit from our AlcoPatch during the 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 of Brightside Brewery. 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 SCRAM Systems. Provided criticism 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 Shepherd, Network Manager at NPRONET. Offered advice about our project and discussed the advantages and disadvantages.

Finance

  • Dr. Louise Barnes, Research Development Manager. Assisted with the external funding and general finance-related problems.
  • Christopher Cowan, Administration Assistant. Assisted with the registration, flight and accommodation bookings for the 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 relevant personnel to speak to for outreach purposes.

Wiki

  • Kim de Mora, Director of Development of iGEM Foundation. Provided valuable advice for our Wiki page design