Within our team, the members of the Wet-Lab subteam worked on finding existing literature on the individual components of our system and conducting experiments to validate our research findings. Senior Wet-Lab members helped to teach and guide younger members with in-lab experiments and protocols, as well as lead the literature search process. Junior Wet-Lab members worked diligently to aid in project development, complete reviews of academic papers, and conduct in-lab experiments. The Wet-Lab Co-Leads, aside from training and leading the members in their research, were the primary liaisons between the Wet-Lab members and the other subteams, assisting to integrate the work done by the Wet-Lab subteam into the overall project.
Members of Dry-Lab helped conceptualize the bacterial system, while developing kinetic simulations to predict system behavior. Members of our Human Practices team met with experts in the field of mental health to learn more about MDD and gauge if we held a valuable perspective on the condition.
We thank Dr. Jianping Xu, PhD student Kuan Zhao, and everyone at the Xu Lab for their support both in-lab and out of lab throughout our project from April to September. We want to extend a special thanks to our post-graduate advisor, Tony Chen (PhD/MD student), who was incredibly helpful in the design phase of our project as well as an invaluable source of knowledge and expertise during troubleshooting. We also thank Dr. Jane Foster, Dr. Jamal Deen, the Soleymani, Saravanamuttu, and Didar labs for giving their time for consultations and aiding us in developing and designing our system. We thank Dr. Vince Leung for his input on modelling. Finally, we thank Dr. Scott Patten, Dr. Roger McIntyre, Dr. Benoit Muslant, and Nicole Costello for sharing their expertise and consulting on Human Practices projects.