Team:Stanford-Brown/Attributions

Attributions

Funding

We are very grateful for financial support from Stanford University REU, Brown University UTRA, NASA Ames Research Center Directors Discretionary Fund, Ames' Office of the Chief Technologist, Rhode Island Space Grant

Project Support and Advice

Thank you to our advisors!

Functional Nucleic Acid Advice

Mark Ditzler, NASA Research Scientist
Christina Smolke, Stanford University Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Melanin Production Metabolic Engineering

Guillermo Gosset, Departamento de Ingeniería Celular y Biocatálisis, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Other things to mention:
General Support
Project support and advice
Fundraising help and advice
Lab support
Difficult technique support
Project Advisor support
Wiki support: Forrest Tran
Presentation coaching
Human Practices support
Thanks and acknowledgements for all other people involved in helping make a successful iGEM team!
We would like to thank Dr. Lynn Rothschild, Dr. Kara Rogers, Dr. Gary Wessel, Dr. Kosuke Fujishima, Dr. Ivan Paulino-Lima, Dr. Mark Ditzler, Griffin McCutcheon, Trevor! Kalkus, Ryan Kent, Jesica Navarrete, Simon Vecchioni, Jim Head, Jill Tartar, Margaret Race, Maria Chavez, Ames Chief Technologist Office, NASA Ames Center Investment Fund, Brown UTRA Fellowship, Stanford VPUE Grant for Undergraduate Research, Rhode Island Space Grant,

Company Sponsors

Integrated DNA Technologies, Biomatters Ltd., Flexicon, DNA 2.0, NEB, Geneious, and SnapGene

Team Training and Project Start

Our institution (Stanford University) is well equipped for synthetic biology work, as an undergraduate Bioengineering program with several lab courses exists in full force. We alternated between using Dr. Lynn Rothschild's lab at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the open-resource Uytengsu Teaching Center in Stanford's bioengineering and chemical engineering building, Shriram. Most of the members on the Stanford side of the team became acquainted with bioengineering lab work through BIOE44 (Fundamentals for Engineering Biology Lab). This course is generally taken as a sophomore, and some of our team members took it during the fall quarter of 2015-2016 (9/21/2015-12/11/2015). Materials for this course, such as the syllabus, are readily available online: Here is an example from 2014.

Our team brainstorms and cross-continental team Skype sessions in March 2016, where we stitched together rough subprojects and the overall theme of bioballoon. Our work in the lab did not start until late May 2016, when the Brown students ended their spring semester and travelled to California to work with the Stanford side in person. Stanford students got to lab after finishing their spring quarter in late June. All projects were begun by the Brown students, and ended by the Stanford students during the regular school year as the Jamboree approached.