Research Project
Executive Board
- President: Ashley Jones
- Wet Lab Leaders: Andy Qiao, Happy Yao
- Vice President Robert Kaptur
Wet Lab
- Leads: Ashley Jones, Andy Qiao, Happy Yao, Robert Kaptur, Kishan Patel
- Supporting: Giselle Russi, Shelby Cherkas, Ashley Browne, Jacqueline Reed, Athanacia Varelas
Computational
- Modeling: Jihyeon Je, Andy Qiao
- Supporting: Ashley Jones, Happy Yao, Shelby Cherkas
Engagement
Educational Outreach
- Leads: Kishan Patel
- TriGEM:
- Organizers: Kishan Patel, Jessica Shah, Ashley Jones
- Registered Attendees (Name/Affiliations): Daniel Xie (Duke), Jacqueline Reed (Duke), Dahlia Halabi (Duke), Corrine Drabenstott (UNC), Robert Kaptur (Duke), One Chowdhury (Duke), Giselle Russi (Duke), Andy Qiao (Duke), Molly Carson (Duke), Happy Yao (Duke), Neha Suresh (NCSU), Seeva Lakshmi Cherukuri (NCSU), Ramachandran Sekanipuram Srikanthan (NCSU), Vaidhya Subramanian Sridharan (NCSU), Nikhil Krishnadas (NCSU), Arusha Amur (NCSU), An Le (Duke), Daniel Xie (Duke), Harshitha Venugopal Lavanya (Duke), Zach Pracher (Duke), Casey Syal (Duke), Joshua Lopez (UNC), Annie Sheeder (Duke), Jason McBane (Duke), Giuliana Mesarick (Duke), Aditya Raj (Duke), Shivam Jain (Duke), Ashi Jain (Duke), Rachel Luner (Duke), Zhamilya Karashukeyeva (Duke), Sean Gao (Duke), Ashley Browne (Duke), Vinicius Xie Fu (Duke), Rachel Luner (Duke)
- Guest Speakers: Dr. Cameron Kim (Duke), Dr. Pranam Chatterjee (Duke)
- Social Media: Kishan Patel, Ashley Jones, Giselle Russi
Integrated Human Practices and Interviews
- Members: Athanacia Varelas, Ashley Jones, Giselle Russi, Dahlia Halabi
- Stakeholders: Dr. Katherine Peters, Dr. Sara Katsanis, Dr. Henry Friedman
Advertising and Promotion
Wiki
- Website: Jessica Shah, Isabella Wang
- Writing: All Duke iGEM Members
- Graphic Design: Isabella Wang, Ashley Jones, Jessica Shah, Casey Syal
Graphics were created using Canva and Biorender
Promotional Video
- Editing and Producing: Jessica Shah
- Participants: Ashley Jones, Happy Yao, Kishan Patel, Giselle Russi, Dahlia Halabi
Staff and Advisors
Lab Staff
Maggie Mbugua, Matt Brown, Dr. Liz Feeney, Dr. Christine Mulvey
Duke iGEM could not exist without the incredibly supportive Duke BME Teaching Lab Staff. We are so grateful for the work they do to maintain a safe and productive lab space and for the educational opportunities they provide our team members. We sincerely appreciate their commitment to teaching and training the next generation of scientists.
Advisors
- Faculty Lead: Dr. Cameron Kim
- Graduate Student Mentor: Harshitha Venugopal Lavanya
Duke iGEM emphasizes undergraduate student leadership in the project, but there are times when instruction or troubleshooting is needed. This would not be possible without our advisors throughout the process. We would like to thank our faculty and graduate mentors for their patience and hard work.
Sources of Support
Educational Support
Duke iGEM is registered as one of the Bass Connection project teams and receives funding through this appointment. Members of Duke iGEM can decide to enroll in a semester-long course to receive credit for their work on this collaborative, student-run research opportunity. The faculty lead, Dr. Cameron Kim, leads this course and is responsible for organizing its structure and assigning grades. This provides students the opportunity to experience different instruction modes and grow outside of the traditional classroom setting.
Funding Support
Lord-Alstadt Foundation of North Carolina, Bass Connections at Duke University, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Undergraduate Research Funding
Duke iGEM is incredibly grateful to our donors that allow us to partake in such cutting-edge research. Without their generosity, we would not have the flexibility to pursue our intellectual curiosity to the fullest extent and our members’ lab experiences would be hindered. We are so grateful that our donors believed in our research and were willing to support our endeavor to create a better drug screening system for glioma therapeutics.
Collaboration and Partnership
TriGEM 2022
We collaborated with the following iGEM teams in the TriGEM event that we organized:
- University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC) iGEM
- North Carolina State University (NCSU) iGEM