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Team

We are a small, student-led team of 6 core members. Therefore, we each had to take responsibility for multiple and varied roles. Although this inevitably meant the workload for each team member was demanding, it also meant that we developed a deeper understanding of our project and were able to communicate our work better. Below we have included the main roles of each team member, however this is not exhaustive and we all engaged in numerous tasks for the benefit of the project.

Instructors & Management

We were guided by a team of passionate instructors of whom we are so grateful for and learnt a lot from.
From the start, our instructors encouraged us to be bold and ambitious, and provided us with a supportive environment in which we could share ideas and knowledge. We are grateful to all instructors for their support and advice throughout the iGEM process.
Many of our wonderful instructors are members of the Cambridge University SynBioSoc Committee to whom we owe a lot of gratitude; the SynBioSoc Committee was fundamental in the organisation of the relaunch of iGEM as an opportunity here at Cambridge and in acquiring the funding required for us to participate in the competition.

Thank you Camillo Moschner for help with organising project ideation and planning sessions, for wet and dry lab training sessions, for ongoing wet lab and dry lab support and for managing the team finances and purchases.

Thank you Alberto Echevarría Poza for help with project ideation and planning.

Thank you Charlie Wedd for your workshop on effective altruism.

Thank you Chris Micklem for help with project ideation and planning, for helping us to navigate iGEM and for assisting with our visit to the Perse School.

Thank you Emma Jones for help with project ideation and planning and for wet-lab training sessions.

Thank you Georgeos Hardo for help with project ideation and planning and for modelling assistance, and wet lab and dry lab support.

Thank you Ignacy Bonter for assisting with the plate reader and for trouble shooting our StayGold GFP characterization.

Thank you Jarrod Shilts for help with project ideation and planning and for helping us to navigate iGEM.

Thank you Kavi Shah for help with project ideation and planning and for wet and dry lab training sessions.

Thank you Sean Thompson for helping us with project ideation and planning and for teaching us about aspects of control theory.

Thank you Steph Avraamides for help with project ideation and planning.

Principal Instructor

Thank you to Dr Jenny Molloy for assisting us with acquiring lab space, for safety training and supporting us with safety considerations and for ongoing project advice and guidance.

Thank you to Dr Somenath Bakshi for allowing us use of microscopes and mother machine in his lab for some of our experiments.

Lab Space

Thank you to all the Biomakespace committee, and other lab users, for being very helpful and accomodating while we have been working in the labs.

Academics

Thank you to all the academics who took the time to talk to us about their research in the context of our project; Dr Stephanie Aoki, Dr Corentin Briat, Dr Fulvio Forni, Dr Timothy Frei, Dr Ania-Ariadna Baetica, Dr Noah Olsman, Dr Lucia Marucci and Mr Davide Salzano. We are very grateful for these discussions and acknowledge the crucial role they played in the human practice aspect of our project. We also acknowledge the role that their own research played in providing a wealth of knowledge for which we took inspiration from and a platform on which we could design our project.

Industry Experts

Thank you to all the industry experts who took the time to talk to us about their work and their company in the context of our project; Dr Michael Miller at Codexis, Dr Charlie Cotton and Dr Pierre Salvy at Cambrium, and Dr Carlos Acevedo-Rocha at Biosyntia. We are very grateful for these discussions and acknowledge the crucial role they played in the human practice aspect of our project.

Sponsor Visit

Thank you to Evonetix for inviting us to visit your labs, for teaching us about your novel technologies and for explaining to us your fantastic research.

Thank you to bit.bio for inviting us to visit your labs, taking an interest in our project and for teaching us about your cutting-edge research.

Student Funding

Thank you to Murray Edwards College, Cambridge and the Posen Fund for supporting Joni with summer accomodation costs.
Thank you to Queens College, Cambridge for supporting Charlie with summer accomodation and jamboree travel costs.
Thank you Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge for supporting Sharon by giving 50% off summer accommodation, and to the Caius Medical Association for Summer studentship awarded to Sharon.
Thank you St Catharine's College, Cambridge for supporting Anthony with full summer accommodation costs. Anthony would also like to thank Dr Sergei Taraskin, Professor Harald Wydra, and Professor David Aldridge for their kind pastoral support.

Past Members

Thank you Kelly Li for your role in the initial project ideation, project planning and team organisation.

Thank you Ali Ahmed for your role in the initial project ideation, project planning and participation in initial project training sessions.

Others

Thank you to FedEx for delivering our distribution kit where UPS failed to do so.

Anthony would like say special thanks to all his close friends - Difei Chen, Hangzhi Wang, King Lam, Qisheng Zhu and Zetai Xu, for such a wonderful summer outside of iGEM.

Sponsors

Thank you again to our wonderful sponsors. Check out our dedicated Sponsor Page to learn more!

Finally, we would like to thank our friends, family and loved ones. Thank you for listening to us talk constantly about iGEM, putting up with us working all hours of the day and night, supporting us through times of stress, and sharing our joy in this incredible experience!