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From 2014.igem.org

ATTRIBUTIONS

Mentors

Of course, science is impossible without collaboration. Our project would not have been possible if it had not been for the innumerable times we were helped by our undergraduate mentors, our supervisor, Brian Teague, our PI, Ron Weiss and other researchers in the lab. From teaching us how to pipet, debugging our PCR problems to lending us parts to use in our project, providing expert insight on doing western blots or running cytometry on our cells, they were with us all the way. We were also helped throughout the summer by the MIT Bioengineering Department’s Writing and Communication Lab, which instructed us from skills ranging from reading scientific papers to making an effective poster to presenting a good talk. Without all the help and guidance we received, we would be lost.

New England iGEM (NEGEM)

Being in Boston with another hundred colleges and universities around us means it only makes sense for the iGEM teams to meet up. A Boston University tradition started in 2012, the 2014 NEGEM consisted of the BU, MIT, Harvard, Rutgers, Tufts, and Worcester Polytechnical Institute iGEM teams. We met three times throughout the course of our summer, presenting and critiquing our projects and presentations, and discussing possible improvements to research methods, presentation style and effectiveness. We also discussed the possibility collaborations between the teams.

We would like to give our warmest thanks to Traci Haddock and the BU team for organizing this wonderful and useful event.

Detailed list of attributions

James Anderson	Treatment subgroup
Lyla Atta	Native Receptors subgroup
	Human practices - helped prep the presentation
	NEGEM presentations 3.1 and 3.2
	Distributed survey
	First interview with doctor
	Website: Native receptor - experiment page
Kathryn Brink	BCR Subgroup
	HSSP presentation prep
	Alzheimer’s walk (TrialMatch Outreach)
	First interview with doctor
	Poster things
	Website flipbooks
Gary Burnett	miRNA Detection Subgroup
Andrew Chen	Assisted with BCR subgroups
Erik Ersland	BCR Subgroup
	Cookies
	presentation that one time
	website
	super legit vacuum manifold
	super legit gel imager
Alexa Garcia	Native Receptors Subgroup
	Human Practices: Survey (creation, distribution and collaboration w/ Tufts)
	PPt Presentation/Talk (including NEGEM 3.1-3.3) [creation and presentation]
	Website: Receptor Group (description pages), Medals page, Survey page, Delivery page, BCR Parts
	General administrative work
Alex Leffell	Treatment Subgroup
Raymond Liu	miRNA Detection Subgroup
	NEGEM 3.1
	Human Practices: Survey distribution
	miRNA group: website content
Raashed Raziuddin	miRNA Detection Subgroup
Christian Richardson	BCR Subgroup
	NEGEM 3.1
	NEGEM 3.2
	Survey Distribution
	Organization of interviews
Shinjini Saha	Native Receptors Subgroup
	Outreach:
	Synbio classes: spring, summer(, fall)
	Interview: Dr. Albers
	Design work: logo, banner, website illustrations(, swag),
	Website: Outreach page
Alex Smith	BCR Subgroup
Abigail Weiss	Native Receptors Subgroup
Jiaqi Xie	miRNA Detection Subgroup
	Human Practices: Survey [passing out and analysis]
	Walk for Alzheimer’s: Recruited for TrialMatch
Andrew Yang	Mentor, training in laboratory techniques
Brandon Nadres	Mentor, training in laboratory techniques
Brian Teague	Head Instructor
	Main advisor, training in lab techniques, moral support, love, affection and a sprinkling of pixie dust
Christopher Voigt	Sponsor
Deepak Mishra	helped us with western blots
Domitilla del Vecchio	Sponsor
Eldi Schoenfeld	Helped us with western blots
	Helped with human practices spring semester
Jacob Beal	Tasbe tools?
Jasdave Chahal	Advice in determining natural HEK-293 response to BCR transfection
Jen Nguyen	BE Writing Lab Fellow provided feedback on presentation content and delivery
Jeremy Gam	Mentor
	Provided MAV1212 miRNA sensor backbone.
Jin Huh	Provided cloning help
Jonathan Babb	Mentor, provided guidance in planning research and experiments
Katie Bodner	Mentor, training in laboratory techniques
Kelly Brock	Instructor
Kristjan Eerik Kaseniit	Mentor
	Taught Matlab, Genious
Ky Lowenhaupt	Helped us with western blots
Kyle Lathem	Mentor, training in laboratory techniques
Natalie Kuldell	Sponsor, Outreach advisor
Richard Nelson Hall	Mentor, training in laboratory techniques - especially tissue culture
Ron Weiss	PI, Head Advisor
Samira Kiani	Helped with human practices spring semester
Sarah Spencer	BE Writing Lab Fellow provided feedback on presentation content and delivery
Sean Kearney	BE Writing Lab Fellow provided feedback on presentation content and delivery throughout all iterations of the presentation
Sebastian Palacios	Helped with neuronal differentiation
Sebastien Uzel	Helped with neuronal differentiation
Steven Keating	Mentor, taught Matlab
Tasuku Kitada	Cloning help
Timothy Lu	Sponsor
Velia Siciliano	Advice in basic design techniques for the tango system
Breanna Stillo	Matlab code
	Transfection protocol