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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 |
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| 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 miRNA and Treatment (?) 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 | Was not the messiah |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Jonathan Babb | Mentor, provided guidance in planning research and experiments |
| Katie Bodner | Mentor, training in laboratory techniques |
| Kelly Brock | |
| Kristjan Eerik Kaseniit | Mentor |
| Taught Matlab, Genious | |
| Ky Lowenhaupt | Helped us with western blots |
| Kyle Lathem | Mentor, training in laboratory techniques |
| Natalie Kuldell | |
| Richard Nelson Hall | Mentor, training in laboratory techniques - especially tissue culture |
| Ron Weiss | ***PI*** |
| 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 | |
| Sebastien Uzel | |
| Steven Keating | Mentor, taught Matlab |
| Tasuku Kitada | |
| Timothy Lu | |
| Velia Siciliano | Advice in basic design techniques for the tango system |
| Breanna Stillo | Matlab code |
| Transfection protocol |
