Team:Calgary/Attributions
Team Members
General Support
Community Human Practices
General Wet Lab Support
General Dry Lab Support
Entrepreneurship
Education
Team Members
Wiki development lead and contributed to the branding of Oviita.
Completed all of our protein modelling and led the creation of Bellatrix. Also, contributed to entrepreneurship by working to incorporating Oviita as a non-profit organization and created our dry lab educational materials.
Focused on the modelling aspect of the bioreactor design and was a major contributor to our wiki.
Major contributor to the Randle Cell Testing Device, Bellatrix, and the Bioreactor design. Also worked on entrepreneurship and parts of our wiki.
Worked on Cellulase Integration in the lab and helped design the wet lab experiments for the Bioreactor development. Also was a major contributor to human practices, helped organize JulyGEM, improved our wet lab educational materials, and helped create the Oviita brand.
Designed and worked on Biocontainment in the lab, and was one of the human practices leads. Also was a major contributor to the Oviita brand, helped organize JulyGEM, and made our graphics.
Designed the Biocontainment parts and worked on the lab execution, while also helping organize JulyGEM.
One of the human practices leads and sole designer of the Thymol and Omega-3 Fatty acid Production projects. Also helped create the wet lab educational materials, and brought the Oviita brand to life by developing all of our videos.
Design and worked on Biocontainment in the lab. Also helped organize JulyGEM, create our wet lab educational materials, and was a major contributor to our wiki.
Worked on Cellulase Integration in the lab and spearheaded the branding of Oviita. Also helped organize JulyGEM, improve our wet lab educational materials, and create our graphics.
Led and designed the Cellulase Integration project, designed wet lab experiments for the Bioreactor development, and was a major contributor to the Oviita brand. Also made many of our graphics, helped organize JulyGEM, and contributed to the wet lab educational materials.
General Support
The primary supervisor for the iGEM Calgary team who provided endless support and guidance for us.
Provided essential guidance and major contributions for the Bioreactor development, Randle Cell Testing Device development, entrepreneurship, human practices and project implementation.
Provided key guidance on the metabolic flux.
Was our Research Assistant throughout the iGEM season, and always offered advice and assistance with any of the team's needs.
Always provided us with support and feedback on our ideas, especially in the initial stages of project ideation.
Helped train our new members and provided cruicial support and advice to the wet lab, especially when we started lab work in the fall.
Supported the team, kept our lab space safe and up to COVID-19 regulations, and helped us with ordering materials and supplies in the lab.
Provided feedback and advice to the wet lab, and was a judge at JulyGEM.
Sponsored one of our member's research stipend for the summer, and gave advice to the wet lab in the initial designing phase of the project.
Sponsored one of our member's research stipend for the summer .
Sponsored one of our member's research stipend for the summer .
Sponsored one of our member's research stipend for the summer .
Sponsored one of our member's research stipend for the summer .
Helped train our new dry lab members and provided expertise on one of our early ideas for synbio education.
Led us through a workshop on effective meeting and project organization strategies.
Led an informative workshop on patents at JulyGEM.
Led an informative workshop on graphic design in iGEM at JulyGEM and was a judge at JulyGEM.
Led an informative workshop on iGEM start-ups at JulyGEM.
Led an informative workshop effective science communication at JulyGEM.
Was a judge at JulyGEM.
Was a judge at JulyGEM, and provided some guidance on our dry lab projects.
Was a judge at JulyGEM, and provided guidance on the wet lab portion of our project, particularly Biocontainment.
Was a judge at JulyGEM.
Was a judge at JulyGEM, and provided us some guidance on how to prepare HP educational materials.
Community Human Practices
Informed us of local culture and practices and helped us envision how our idea could fit into existing infrastructure in West Africa.
Taught us more about existing systems of micronutient supplementation, what still needs to be improved, and how Oviita fits within this.
Gave us insights on the importance of drug resistance in intestinal parasites, and provided us protocols and Caenorhabditis elegans for thymol testing.
Helped us understand anthelmintics, their use, and parasitic nematodes in the livestock industry.
Deepened our understanding of the social and cultural setting, struggles, and limitations of communities in Tanzania and Uganda.
Verified the need for vitamin A supplementation and graciously taught us about supplementation initiatives in small towns in the Philippines.
Provided on-site understanding of the rural Indian healthcare system and how our project could be implemented in India, and verified its benefit.
Translated and conducted an interview in Hindi in order for us to access contacts across the language gap.
Taught us more about existing systems of micronutient supplementation, what still needs to be improved, and how Oviita fits within this.
Gave us a more nuanced and cautious understanding of the complicated factors relating to nutritional aid, and taught us the importance of centering our design on the user's real needs.
Gave us insight into the medical needs and current initiatives for the benefit of school children in Chettipalayam, Tamil Nadu,India. Emphasized the importance of ensuring effectiveness and safety of thymol.
Taught us about existing solutions and focused our attention to the importance of preventative measures, long-term solutions, and commitment to the overall vitamin A deficiency initiative.
General Wet Lab Support
Helped team with various aspects of the wet lab projects and generously gave us yeast protocols and Yarrowia lipolytica and Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains.
Generously gave us yeast protocols and recommendations.
Gave us advice on Gibson cloning and feedback on our project at our Faculty Talk.
Helped with understand yeast characteristics and taxonomy.
Graciously sent us beta-carotene producing Y. lipolytica strain and Y. lipolytica protocols, as well as firsthand advice on the use of ="font-style: italic;class="italic">Y. lipolytica as a synthetic biology chassis.
Gave us advice on our to culture environmental samples for Biocontainment experiments.
Graciously sent us the genetically engineered S. cerevisiae strains yMM60 and yMM65 that we used in our proof of concept co-culturing experiments.
Provided a number of useful suggestions regarding the co-culturing of our strains, and gave feedback to the experimental design of our project.
Helped us gain knowledge in creating our own auxotrophic strains and answered our general questions regarding co-culturing. He also provided us with the contact information for a number of other academia members that informed our project development.
Allowed us to use a plate reader in his lab for our experiments.
Lent us some reagents to conduct the DNS assay.
Gave us feedback on Gibson assembly and biocontainment during our Faculty Talk.
General Dry Lab Support
Mr. Rousseau assisted us with creating our distanced development strategy, and provided very kind and forgiving code review.
Sebastien was a key resource in the development of our bioreactor. Throughout constant design obstacles, he was a consistent and friendly source of help.
Helped us understand the testing and diagnostics of vitamin A deficiency and the applications of a field test.
Gave valuable insight into impedance based biosensors for the Randle Cell Testing Device.
Provided key feedback for bioreactor design and ideation in addition to proofreading wiki content.
Shared valuale information regarding biosensor design and troubleshooting.
Entrepreneurship
Gave us direction on how to establish a charity non-profit and stressed the importance of creating partnerships with existing organizations and community groups.
Kelly provided us with information on training, public perception, networking with other organizations and what effective organizations and implimentation looks like. In addition for forging a partnership with us.
Gave invaluable insight into developing a non profit, developing a social enterprise program, and working with locals effectively and ethically. In addition to forging a partnership with us.
Provided us with research papers, advice, and direction to take our project.
Helped us better understand patents and the legal implications of a University research team.
Education and Outreach
Renert iGEM lead, helped orchestrate Renert HS iGEM workshops
Aided in one of our early synthetic biology education projects.
Aided in HP Package development
