Attributions

Project advisors

Thank you to our wonderful supervisors and advisors Andrea Clausen Lind and Cecilia Trivellin for assisting, proofreading and answering all our questions regardless of how trivial or reasonable they were, or how many times we had already asked about the same thing. Your support, ideas and advice have been invaluable to us and our project. Thank you for believing in us even when nothing seemed to go the way we planned!

Modeling

We have three people in particular to thank for assisting us with our software and modeling project. Thank you to Angelo Limeta for giving us inspiration, tips and support for modeling and software development. Thank you Johan Larsbrink for assisting us with Alpha fold so we could visualise our proteins and improve our designs.

Also thank you to our partners iGEM UTokyo for testing our model and web application and providing valuable feedback.

Outreach and engagement

We have a few people to thank for enabling us to spread our passion for synthetic biology to the world.

Thank you!

Nathalie Scheers for allowing us to come to your class and talk about synthetic biology and the possibilities of iGEM.

Kennet Sundberg for giving us the opportunity to participate with a booth on Vetenskapsfestivalen

Rebecka Svanberg at Sommarforskarskolan for letting us hold workshops about synthetic biology to inspire youths.

Carl Johan Franzén and Karl de Fine Licht for inviting us to discuss biosaftey and ethics of synthetic biology with your master students.

UNILausanne team that restlessly worked with us to manage the Transcriptome blog and write articles about science for the public.

Susanne Ottosson for inviting us to speak to your highschool students in the medical biology and microbiology class.

All teams that have translated and helpsued us on different levels with the blog!

Wet lab

Thank you to the lab team at SysBio and IndBio at Chalmers University for welcoming us, a horde of loud and inexperienced but ambitious students, into your precious lab and letting us borrow your space and equipment and giving us tips when we struggled. We could not have wished for a better work environment!

Also, thank you to Amanda Sörensen Ristinmaa and Veronica Gast for giving feedback on our initial protein designs helping us develop better systems. Thank you Christos Skretas for giving us the dCas9 gene and the backbone of our gRNA-plasmids.

Human Practices

We primarily have two people whose advice has been invaluable to improve our project.

Thank you

Principal Scientist Sarah Nogaro at FINDdx for discussing our project design and implementation.
Managing director Russel Glanz at ICT for answering our questions about point of care tests and product design and what requirements our product must fulfil to have an impact.

Team attributions

Alvin Ånestrand

has been in charge of modelling our project and developing the linker optimization tool PLOP as well as helping out with the wiki source code. He has been responsible for the partnership with UTokyo. Alvin has also been part of the human practices and funding teams, and an actor in the promotion video.

Matilda Öjmertz

is one of two team leaders. She has been responsible for project administration, holding meetings, keeping track of deadlines and also helped out with anything and everything that needed to be done as well as acted in the promotion video. Beside her team leading role, she has been an important part of the wet lab team and single handedly conducted the “improvement of a part”-experiments.

Marcus Adner

has primarily been active in the wetlab team counting for many hours overtime and ensuring steady progress in the experiments. Marcus also made sure everyone worked according to safety protocol and assisted with troubleshooting and problem solving.

Emy Saetre

has been responsible for social media, communication and publishing. She has also been illustrating pictures for the wiki page and the presentation as well as for media. Emy has been responsible for the blog and the collaboration with iGEM UNIL and been a part of the wet lab team.

Emil Löfgren

has been responsible for the development of the wiki, dividing and managing the work as well as coding and designing all the pages. He has been an integral part of the wet lab team and the funding team. Emil is also one of our speakers, excellently presenting our project to the world and the judges.

Lucas Toftås

has been part of the wet lab team and had some extra responsibility over especially documentation in the notebook and fulfilling the medal criteria. Lucas has also assisted with other things such as writing safety protocols, troubleshooting and brainstorming.

Anders Källberg

is part of the wet lab and dry lab teams and he is the leader of the cell free project. He has been responsible for structuring the work and has made significant contributions to the design of the cell free system. Anders also assisted the outreach team and he laid the groundwork of formulating the mathematical model.

Jonatan Eklöv

is one of two team leaders and has primarily been responsible for meetings, human practices and dry lab. He has also contributed a lot with graphic design for logos and presentations as well as for the wiki. Jonatan has been part of developing models of the project to improve our designs.

August Qvist

is part of the wetlab team and the leader of the cell based project. He has been responsible for project management and keeping track of our progress. August has also been responsible for registering our parts to the gene registry and recording our experiments in the notebook.

Linus Storm

has been part of the wet lab team as well as helped with funding. He has also been responsible for note-taking during all meetings and played a part in the promotion video. Linus has also helped with editing, translating and managing the transcriptome blog.

Jonatan Bertolozzi

has played one of the major roles in developing and designing the wiki and getting everything to function and look according to our wishes. He has also assisted with outreach as well as funding.

Robin Rydberg

Has contributed with ideas and put energy into research during the first phase of the project. He also recorded and edited the promotional video. Unfortunetaly he was not able to participate in the project during the summer.

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