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Attributions

The University of Texas at Austin iGEM team was responsible for almost all aspects of the project, from coming up with the project idea, writing procedures, and executing lab/simulation work. We would like to thank all of the brilliant people who made this project possible.

Team Members

Harsh Madaik- led the RNAse site manipulation research subgroup of the project. For the wiki he worked on the Attributions, Home page, Project Modeling, Diversity and Inclusion, and Description Wiki pages. He also led the poster creation and presentation group, and he created figures depicting the organization of the T7 genome.

Alex MacAskill- led the Data visualization and Lysozyme manipulation research subgroup of the project and collected phage model data using TACC. For the wiki, he worked on the Home, Team, Contribution, Engineering Success, Results, Safety, and Project Modeling pages and helped with formatting all of the wiki pages. He also helped to introduce the other team members to the Pinetree software and updated many of the R scripts.

Michelle Chang- led the GFP gene insertion research subgroup of the project and collected phage model data using TACC. For the wiki, she worked on the Design and Proposed Implementation pages. She also led the video presentation group with Sophia Xu.

Sophia Xu- led the Lysis genes and Lysis time manipulation research subgroup of the project and collected phage model data using TACC. For the wiki, she worked on the Human Practices and Partnership pages. She also led the video presentation group with Michelle Chang.

Noor Radde- designed a lot of the scripts we used in RStudio throughout the project. For the wiki, she led the work on the Contribution page, helped with formatting all of the wiki pages, and updated all of the burden values for the project.

Kaitlin Shin- was a part of the GFP gene insertion research subgroup of the project. For the wiki, she worked on the Project Description and Science Communication pages. She also helped to make the Promotion video presentation for the project.

Antara Gupta- was a part of the Lysis genes and Lysis time manipulation research subgroup of the project. For the wiki, she worked on the Collaboration and Science Communication pages. She also helped to make the Promotion video presentation for the project.

Haris Tariq- was a part of the RNAse site manipulation research subgroup of the project. For the wiki, he worked on the Contribution, Proof of Concept, and Diversity and Inclusion pages. He also worked on poster creation and presentation.

Aneesa Bhakta- was a part of the Data visualization and Lysozyme manipulation research subgroup of the project. She worked on Engineering Success and Proof of Concept pages. She also worked on the presentation and created the T7 bacteriophage cartoons used throughout the wiki.

Tarun Cherukuri- was a part of the Lysis genes and Lysis time manipulation research subgroup of the project. He worked on Proof of Concept and Engineering Success pages. He also worked on poster creation and presentation.

Maanasa Cherukuvada- was a part of the Data visualization and Lysozyme manipulation research subgroup of the project. For the wiki, she worked on the Collaboration and Partnership pages. Helped to edit and format the Wiki pages.

Jorge Ramirez- was a part of the GFP gene insertion research subgroup of the project. For the wiki, he worked on the Human Practices and Integrated Human Practices pages. He also helped to edit and format the Wiki pages.

Joseph Garza- was a part of the Human Practices outreach group and helped organize meeting with miniPCR.

Special Thanks

Dr. Jeffrey Barrick and Dr. Dennis Mishler- Led and assisted the team in coming up with the project concept, reviewing relevant literature, and fine-tuning all parts of the project as the project developed.

Cameron Roots- He advised and assisted the team with any and all technical issues involving the PineTree simulation.

Benjamin Jack and the UT Wilke Lab Team- They created the PineTree stochastic gene expression simulator that was used for data collection in this project. Visit site page here.

TU Delft iGEM Team- They collaborated with our team and empowered our team to better understand T7 bacteriophage activity when accounting for population dynamics. This helped us by showing the number of lysed bacterial cells over time and the number of phage necessary to reach a certain concentration of the reporter protein. Visit their project here.

Dr. Ian Molineux- He advised the team throughout the early phases of our project and provided a lot of in-depth information on the background of T7 phage based on his decades of experience in studying and working with this phage.

Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)- TACC gave our team access to their powerful computing technology in order for us to efficiently run hundreds of trials of our Pinetree T7 phage simulation. Learn more about them here.

Microbe Hackers FRI stream- Microbe Hackers Undergraduate Students peer-reviewed several Wiki pages, providing crucial comments on formating and general grammar. Visit site page here.