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                 <li><b>Collin Marino</b>: As head of the Wetlab committee and member of the wiki and entrepreneurship committees, Collin was the member that originally came up with the project idea. As Wetlab lead, he spearheaded the initial planning of experimental procedures and oversaw the procedure development and flow chart design. In addition, Collin wrote and successfully filed the provisional patent, allowing the team to begin sharing our idea with experts and getting their feedback. Also, Collin did the coding for the wiki and created a template for the pages, which allowed other team members to help build the wiki as well.</li>

                 <li><b>Colin Haws</b>: As head of the modeling committee and member of the Wetlab committee, Colin focused on leading the modeling efforts to describe the efficiency of the MANIFOLD system. More specifically he worked on the promotor calculator and the reaction kinetics models. In Wetlab, Colin helped in the collection and assembly of BMC parts, both in the lab and virtually, and worked on the BMC procedures in the lab with Veronica.</li>

                 <li><b>Dev Patel</b>: As head of the Human Practices Committee and member of the Wetlab, wiki, and modeling, Dev worked on writing the code of ethical conduct and most of the wiki write-up for the Human Practices committee. In modeling, Dev worked with Pietro to develop the NetLogo model to show substrate movement in BMCs. In addition, in Wetlab, Dev helped research collect and write the procedures for the Enzyme subteam, inputting those into Benchling, along with any sequences.</li>

                 <li><b>Jacob Polzin</b>: As head of the Wiki committee and member of the Modeling and Wetlab committees, Jacob was the one that proposed our circuit contain operon elements with unique promoter/enhancer/RBS to curtail metabolic overload while maintaining the right product ratio. He also proposed we add GFP to one of the PDU proteins so that we could verify formation. In addition, as Wiki Lead, Jacob kept everyone motivated and focused on building quality content cooperatively. For modeling, he focused on helping determine the required concentration outputs along with the means of achieving that ratio with promoter and RBS sequence manipulation.</li>

                 <li><b>Pietro Revelli</b>: As Chief FInancial Officer, co-head of then Entrepreneurship Committee and member of the Wetlab and Modeling, Pietro worked on the market analysis of resveratrol, applied to countless grants and made the budget for the team. In addition, on the modeling team, Pietro worked on the Cobra Toolbox in Python and Matlab and was the one who pointed out the importance of the ACS and ACC in the resveratrol pathway. </li>

                 <li><b>Apekchha Pradhan</b>: As a member of the Wetlab, Entrepreneurship, and Wiki committees, Apekchha was in charge of forming the sequences and parts for the 4Cl and STS enzymes in the resveratrol pathway. She worked with Peitro and Jacob in the lab, following the protocols for their enzyme sub-team. She also took part in helping build the wiki and got to be more familiar with web design and HTML/CSS. </li>

                     <li><b>Dr. Keith Kozminski</b>: As our teams head advisor, Professor Kozminski aided in nearly every aspect of team and project development. In the spring, he was the teacher of the class the gave us the foundation of synthetic biology and where we first developed our project idea. Throughout the summer and the fall, Professor Kozminski was always available for advice or suggestions on device design, experimental protocol development, intellectual property advice, general iGEM questions, and much more. The entire team is incredibly grateful for all of his help and guidance. </li>

                   <li><b>Dr. George McArthur</b>: Further into the summer, we reached out to Dr. McArthur, the founder of the Virginia iGEM Team, Director of Genetic Design-Build at Arzeda, and new Head of Product at Ansa Biotechnologies, Inc. We did a short presentation for him on the wetlab component of our project, and he gave us advice on next steps for the project: get funding, find other ways to market the device (ie. expand its applications) and figure out how to get data without having normal access to our lab (outsource to Teselagen/Honeybee/Culture Biosciences). </li>

                     <li><b>Nathan Evans</b>: Long before the establishment of a proper entrepreneurship committee, we were still interested in protecting our device and intellectual property. We began early by speaking to Nathan Evans, a patent lawyer in the Charlottesville area who offered us a no-cost meeting to discuss the process of filing and how to protect ourselves from losing claim to our device. Mr. Evans detailed our path forward and the time structure that we would be subject to in our patent filing process. It was a great first step in us understanding the weight of our ideas and how to properly handle them.</li>

                   <li><b>Rahul Keshap</b>: To learn about proper company development, we reached out to Rahul Keshap, a lecturer in the UVA law school who shared his insight into starting a company. He broke down each of our team's individual claims to the idea, and how we could best move forward in forming a company. This conversation led us to form the basis of our entrepreneurship committee, a committee that explores our own finances and structure in order to potentially grow our device beyond the scope of a project.</li>

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