Student Team

Name	Part Design	Experimental Design	Wet Lab Work	Sponsorship Outreach	Educational Outreach	Human Practices	Wiki and Graphic Design	Modeling	Video Work	Wiki
Matthew Feng	X	X	X
Keenan Fronhofer			X		X	X*				X
Alice Lam			X				X		X*
Amanda Mei	X	X	X	X*						X
Safiyyah Ogundipe			X			X		X*		X
Ally Vernich	X*	X	X*

All members contributed to each of the parts of the project. However those that made significant contributions to that part are marked with an 'X' while those that took on a leading role to that part of are indicated with a '*'.

Mentor & Advisor Team

Josh Abramson

Josh helped to supervise the team and provide mentorship during project ideation and direction in modeling.

Ilya Andreev

Ilya helped to supervise the team and provide feedback on experimental design, especially when it came to working with S. cerevisiae. He taught the team how to culture and transform yeast during the team’s bootcamp sessions.

Justin Buck, Ph.D.

Justin is the team’s day-to-day lab supervisor. He provided advice during project ideation and in outreach to corporate sources of funding.

Gael Chambonnier, Ph.D.

Gael helped to supervise the team and provide feedback on experimental and plasmid design as well as on. He taught the team how to perform cloning experiments during the team’s bootcamp sessions and assisted in troubleshooting any cloning experiments.

Ellie Feng

Ellie, as a member of the 2021 iGEM team, helped to coordinate team formation and continued to support the team by providing advice on part design, experimental design and techniques, and provided much support in the wet lab.

Angela Gao

Angela, as a member of the 2021 iGEM team, helped to coordinate team formation and continued to support the team by providing advice on part design, especially, as well as experimental design and techniques.

Andy Tu, Ph.D.

Ang (Andy) advised the team during project ideation and during experimental design stages. He also provided help with general troubleshooting.

Georg Wachter, Ph.D.

Georg helped provide initial guidance on plasmid and gBlock design, and taught the team how to utilize Benchling to design our parts.

Jared Zheng

Jared, as a member of the 2021 iGEM team, helped to coordinate team formation and continued to support the team by providing advice on modeling and wiki design.

Corporate Sponsors

Plasmidsaurus

For providing us free full-plasmid sequencing.

IDT

For providing free synthesized parts.

Genscript

For providing analysis software.

Twist

For providing free synthesized parts.

New England Biolabs

For providing free reagents.

Other Mentors & Advisors, Support

John Essigmann, Ph.D.

For providing us with advice with regards to human practices and in experimental design.

Stephen Sonis, DMD, DMSc

For providing us with advice regarding the science behind our therapeutic as an expert in oral mucositis.

Zijay Tang, Ph.D.

For advising us on the technological platform, SynSCOBY, that we planned to use, and providing us with a yeast cloning toolkit to use for our experiments.

Ron Weiss, Ph.D.

For providing advice on the direction of the project.

MIT Department of Biological Engineering & Huang-Hobbs BioMakerspace

For providing the lab space and basic lab reagents for many of our experiments.

MIT BE Communications Lab

For helping us prepare our project pitch and give advice on the direction of the project.

MIT Institutional Research

For helping us prepare us for interviewing volunteer oral mucositis patients.