Team:Korea-SIS/Attributions
Attributions
Individual Contributions
Clara Yim
Team Leader
As one of the team leaders, Clara completed most of the administrative tasks, such as registering the team with the school and meeting the iGEM competition requirements. She was also a part of the biology team, engaging in the design and coding processes to create the most appropriate biosensor model. As a part of the Human Practices team as well, she organized meet-ups with other Korean teams and international organizations. She also contributed to the presentational video of the project.
Jinha
Team Leader
Jinha as one of the team leaders took responsibility for administrative tasks along with collaboration with other teams in Korea, notably KUAS. Furthermore, as part of the biology team, Jinha took responsibility for the coding process for creating the biosensor model as well as the wiki. Also taking a major role in the proposed implementation, he actively researched possible, realistic applications of the biosensor model around the world, contacting with various key figures and organizations for the end goal of providing a cheap yet effective way of detecting contaminated wheat. He also contributed to the presentational video of the project.
Overall, he has enjoyed actively participating in the team!
Brian (Jeongwoo) Cho
Multimedia Leader
Brian (Jeongwoo Cho), given his position as multimedia and video leader, has contributed through methods such as taking photos and recording videos of various meetings that our group had attended. Furthermore, he has been assigned to create two videos, one describing the fundamental concept of the topic addressed by our group (promotion video) and another outlining the numerous tasks we have completed throughout the process of developing our project. Finally, he organizes all the resources he has collected in order to create the wiki.
Hanjoo Lee
Hanjoo has contributed mainly to human practices where he passionately helped the co-leaders in the campaign process and the high school education program along with taking roles in collaboration by contacting multiple experts in the field of biosensor. Furthermore, Aiden led the logo and poster design process.
Ian Kim
Ian has contributed in different categories of the project, doing a bit of everything. He worked on creating and organizing the surveys and interviews that the team got back from Sri Lanka, completed the attributions section, contacted everyone on attributions to get their permission, and also had a hand on a part of the scientific communication. He was also in charge of contacting the team’s mentor on a weekly basis and asked her for advice whenever the team was unsure of how to approach a certain criteria.
Myeongjin Shin
Myeongjin contributed to the safety form, Bio part (specifically the protocol), posters, and Engineering success. He also searched papers for modeling and found/organized useful data for this project with his chemical and biological knowledge. He summarized the detection method and information about aflatoxin, found appropriate spectroscopic methods to detect aflatoxin from foods in some researches, and summarized the protein extraction method.
Sarah Yim
Biology Leader
As the team co-leader of the biology sector, Sarah has mainly contributed to the scientific components of the project, cooperating in the construction of the overall biological design and participating in interviews to discuss the biological aspects of the topic. She has also taken considerable part in the human practices as she implements applied mathematics to create graphs and analyze data collected from research. She has developed ideas for campaigns, the high school education program, interviews, and survey analysis. She also contributed to the presentational video of the project.
Taejoo Lee
Human Practices Leader
Taejoo has contributed mainly by serving as the co-leader for human practices and economy along with partaking major roles in interviews and collaboration. He took part in the high school education program and contacted many professors and organizations along with being in charge of the campaign process and survey analysis. He also used his expertise in economics to make the sensor more economical and feasible for the low-income farmers. Lastly, he contributed to the presentational video of the project.
Instructors
Rose Tyvand
Dr. Tyvand, our AP Chemistry/Biology teacher and our primary instructor, helped the team understand the specific details of the project and also gave us feedback on the final copy of our protocol. Her input was very important for the completion of the project and her help was greatly appreciated.
Jae Eun Kil
Ms. Kil helped us a lot throughout the project. She helped lead the team through the complex biological aspect of our project including vector plasmids, CYP1A2, E-coli, etc. She also used her multiple connections with the Sri Lankan community to help us find connections with many of the farmers there through Dreamspace Academy in order to get our interviews and surveys.
Semyung Shin
Ms. Shin helped the whole team understand the concept of mass producing CYP1A2 enzymes. She made sure that every member in the team correctly understood what was being done in our project and the biological principles that were behind the steps. She also helped us contact other teams from Korea introducing us to some college teams in Korea such as KUAS.
Minji Kim
Ms. Kim helped the team design the wiki for our project. As a web designer, she helped us make the wiki look like something we wanted. She also helped us on the coding aspect of the wiki as well, providing active support for the team whenever something in the codes went wrong and put out a strange output.
Advisors
Dr. Jim Gerhard
Dr. Gerhard, the highschool principal of Seoul International School, supervised the education sessions that we held online. Dr. Gerhard helped promote our campaign online and supported our iGEM project throughout the competition.
Claudia Troncone
Ms. Troncone was our iGEM mentor that provided us with feedback throughout the whole project. Whenever the team was not sure what to do, we could turn to Ms. Troncone. Some of the many examples of what she helped us with were Contributions, Science Communication, Engineering Success, and many more. The weekly meetings that were held with her really propelled the team forward in terms of progress and she also reminded us of deadlines which was really helpful when keeping track of everything.
Dr. Jin Gyo Kim
Dr. Kim provided us with feedback on the biological aspect of the project and supervised the design of the protocol.
Amali Thanthridge
Ms. Thanthridge, a Sri Lankan citizen, provided us with great general information on the current state of Sri Lankan agriculture, giving us a clearer picture of what we were doing.
Additional Feedback
Jin Huh
Mr. Huh, a professor from Sejong University, provided overall feedback on our project. His feedback on the project really helped us solidate a definite path we wanted to follow and also helped us come up with a solid idea for what we wanted the final device to look like. Overall, he set us on the right path to the completion of the project.
Hae Il Ryu
Mr. Ryu, a professor from Kongju University, also provided the team with some overall feedback on the project itself. His feedback helped the team think up of things that could further improve the project in the biological aspect. Overall, he really guided us through the concept of a biosensor and answered many of the questions we had as well.
Sang Woo Seo
Mr. Seo, the professor of biological engineering in Seoul National University, helped us understand the transformation process of E-coli and provided feedback for the biological factor of our project. It was thanks to Mr. Seo that we grasped the idea of the project well and could actually move on from the biological part of the project.
Aravinth Panch, Shanjeevan Amalanathan, Charuni Indrajith & Kishoth Navaretnarajah from DreamSpace Academy (a community innovation centre in Sri Lanka)
They have provided extensive feedback and support to validate and develop our project. Initially, they have guided us on how to co-develop this project with the support of multiple stakeholders from local farmers, life-science, agriculture, engineering and manufacturing.
They have helped us to conduct surveys and have produced answers for our questionnaires from 44 farmers and personal video interviews from 5 farmers. All of these were translated from Tamil (the local language) to English by them. They have also reviewed our protocol and feasibility of such biotech solutions for the local challenges in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, they have engaged us with an international biosensor engineering & manufacturing company and convinced them to provide their technology platform for this project, so that the prototype of this solution can get production-ready soon, without reinventing the wheel.
Ross Bundy
Mr. Bundy, co-founder of Cardea Bio, introduced the idea of incorporating new technology to lower the cost and reduce the technological requirements of the user. Cardea Bio has been commercializing this and making it available for companies to build applications serving many markets including consumer markets.
Other Help
Ji-In Han
Ms. Han helped us edit the presentational video and had a very major role in the process of creating our video, one such way was providing us with the professional feel that the video needed.
Sangwon Im
Mr. Im helped us create the Wiki by helping the team with the coding parts. He also took charge in making most of the edits in the Wiki when the team provided him with the information that had to go in it.
Amali Thanthridge
Ms. Thanthridge, a Sri Lankan citizen, provided us with great general information on the current state of Sri Lankan agriculture, giving us a clearer picture of what we were doing.
Anna Kathleen
Ms. Kathleen helped with the translation of the survey and interview results.
Sherun Sivanesan
Mr. Sivanesan also helped with the translation of the survey results we got back from Sri Lanka.
Saesoon preschool
Saesoon preschool located in Seoul, South Korea, provided us with a location where we could teach preschoolers about our project.
Rice Museum
The Rice Museum located in Seoul, South Korea, provided us with a location where we could display posters that showed our project thoroughly.