The following organizations and individuals have supported Purdue iGEM through generous financial contributions. Thanks to these individuals contributions we can begin conducting the wet lab work for phase two of our project.
Purdue College of Engineering
Purdue College of Agriculture
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Purdue Vice Provost of Undergraduate Research
Purdue Honors College
Purdue Engineering Student Council
Meng Zhou (Purdue iGEM Alumn)
Charlotte Hoo (Purdue iGEM Alumn)
Janie Brennan (Purdue iGEM Alumn)
Faculty Advisors and Graduate Students
Kevin Solomon (Faculty Advisor): Assisted in preliminary project design and provided guidance and feedback during biweekly meetings.
Ethan Hillman (Graduate Advisor): Assisted with construction of biological parts for phase II.
Academic Consultants
The following organizations and individuals have supported Purdue iGEM through generous financial contributions. Thanks to these individuals contributions we can begin conducting the wet lab work for phase two of our project.
Dr. Steven Werely
Dr. Jacqueline Linnes
Dr. Eljse Pienaar
Dr. Saheed Mohammadi
Dr. Frederick Gates
Nidhi Menon (iGEM Alumn)
Mark Aaronson (iGEM Alumn)
COVID-19 Testimonials
The following individuals had professions or personal experiences that were greatly impacted by COVID-19. Their courage and willingness to share their stories with us greatly improved our perspective regarding the implementation of our project as well as the engineering design. Their stories and how they impacted our project are documented more in depth on our Integrated Human Practices Page.
Radha Venkat
Lorenzo McGhie
Omar Gillani
Team Roles
Illustrations and Web Design
The following individuals are responsible for the graphics animations, and coding of the website.
Xander Weintraut (Main Web developer): Responsible for the coding and styling of the wiki website and worked on developing all of the web pages.
Rithwik Palivela (Assistant Web developer): Assisted the main web developer with coding and was responsible for styling and coding the Integrated Human Practice Page
Madhu Prakash (Graphic designer): Developed all visual graphics for the wiki and assisted in formatting and web page styling.
All Team Members: All team members contributed to the wiki through content writing, uploading and resizing images, or drawing page layouts.
Argonaute Biologics Team
The following individuals designed all biological components of the project for use in phase II.
Miles Thompson: Worked on developing the integrated code for RPA primer designs and molecular beacon design.
Rithwik Palivela (Assistant Web developer): Assisted the main web developer with coding and was responsible for styling and coding the Integrated Human Practice Page.
Pim Jitnavasathien: Used Java to create the initial TtAgo guide DNA generating program.
Hailey Szadowski: Utilized the molecular beacon outputs from the code and used Quickfold to analyze all of the outputs and identified the required parameters for the optimal beacon structure.
Grace Lee: Worked with Madhu on developing the biological part constructs for phase 2.
Madhu Prakash (Team Leader): Oversaw all biologics work and help solve any problems. Developed the final TtAgo guide generator program using python that was included in the integrated software. Worked with Grace on designing and ordering all necessary primers and biological parts for phase II of the project.
Ben Howard (Team Leader): Oversaw all biologics work and helped solve any problems.
Hardware Design
The following individuals designed the microfluidic to be used in this project and all its necessary hardware components.
Jerome Sendon: Mechanical engineering design consultant who assisted in the design and CAD modelling of the microfluidic device.
Madhu Prakash: Worked with Andres, Matthew and Jerome to design the Microfluidic device taking into account various fluidics principles.
Swagat Bhattacharyya: Electrical engineering team member responsible for the design and development of the portable electrical heater for the microfluidic chip.
Matthew Chan: Conducted research along with Andres regarding fluid dynamics on a microscale and conducted preliminary modelling of fluid flow.
Andres Dextre: Conducted research along with Matthew regarding fluid dynamics on a microscale and conducted preliminary modelling of fluid flow.
Human Practices
The following individuals assisted in the coordination of the synthetic biology education video series and organized all meetings with experts and other teams.
Karthik Ravichandran: Responsible for NEGEM presentation creation and delivery, reaching out to teams for the educational YouTube series collaboration, scriptwriting for the educational videos, and emailing individuals.
Dalton Saylor: Responsible for emailing and setting up meetings with professors, educators, and organizations for consults and or collaborations in regards to our project. Also assisted with the narration of the project promotion video.
Ana Stenstrom: Responsible for emailing and setting up meetings with industry professionals in regards to the safety of our project.
Victor Pacheco: Responsible for answering all emails and writing scripts for the educational crash course series.
Casey Ernest: Responsible for writing scripts for the educational crash course series and reaching out to educators for test curriculum implementation.
Alex Boyd: Responsible for writing scripts for the educational crash course series and reaching out to educators for test curriculum implementation.
Hailey Szadowski: Narrated all of Purdue’s educational Crash course videos and developed a check for understanding google survey for all of the videos.
Madhu Prakash (Team Leader): Orchestrated and managed the entire educational crash course series, animated and video edited multiple videos for the series, and peer-edited and wrote scripts for the series. Reached out to Alumni and everyday individuals for project consultations and general interviews.
Andres Dextre: Translated University of Rochester’s endometriosis facts into Spanish.
Breaking Down Synthetic Biology Crash Course
The following individuals assisted in the coordination of the synthetic biology education video series and organized all meetings with experts and other teams.To see their contributions check out their wiki page.
