First, we would like to thank every person involved in making out project this year a success. As a first year team without proper resources, all the help and mentorship we have received shaped us in a way that we did not think possible. Thank you to our team, mentors, advisors, and our student leaders. Below, we have listed what each team member has dont to contribute to our project, and all of the additional mentors and sponsorships we have received.
Chris Kuffner served as our mentor for the 2022 iGEM season. He guided us through this entire season and taught us the basics of iGEM. He helped us with our modeling and overall project data curation. We are extremely grateful for his support this season, and our weekly meeting that helped us make sure that we were on the correct path for success.
Michael Magaraci gave us immense feedback on our modeling section. He gave us advice on how we would plan to implement our project in wet lab, and taught us how to perform a gene transferring experiment. He taught us the basics of modeling, and helped us continue with our investigation.
Lizbeth Banuelos served as our advisor for the 2022 iGEM season. She helped us coordinate with the school and fix any financial issues that arised. She also helped us coordinate with iGEM HQ in dealing with any issues we faced this season. Thank you so much, Mrs. Banuelos!
We would like to thank the RBHS Foundation, including Mich Jacoby and Denise Davis for providing support in coordinating with us on our finances and providing us with necessary financial support. They helped us coordinate with companies. We would also like to thank RBHS ASB for maintaining our financial account and allowing for our logistics to run smoothly.
We would like to thank Qualcomm San Diego for providing financial support to our team. They matched our donations, and helped us cover our 2022 registration fee.
We would like to thank Matlab for providing us with the necessary resources to pursue all aspects of our project. We were able to effectively model our proteins and perform calculation necessary on this software.
Srika Popuri served as the President and one of the student leaders for the 2022 RBHS iGEM team. She was involved with all aspects of modeling, analysis of literature and past iGEM teams, conceptualization of our project idea, performing calculations, collecting data, fundraising, background research, data curation, designing the wiki, recruitment, and overall project administration. She also communicated with other high school teams and coordinated meetings with the team and our mentor.
Riya Athalye served as the Co-Vice President and one of the student leaders for the 2022 RBHS iGEM team. She was involved with all aspects of modeling, analysis of literature and past iGEM teams, conceptualization of our project idea, performing calculations, collecting data, fundraising, background research, and data curation. She designed our team logo and flyers to aid in recruitment, and coordinated with the president to plan meetings and coordinate logistics for the competition season.
Sarika Patil served as the Co-Vice President and one of the student leaders for the 2022 RBHS iGEM team. She was involved with all aspects of modeling and matlab coding, analysis of literature and past iGEM teams, conceptualization of our project idea, collecting data, fundraising, background research, and data curation. She coordinated with the president to plan meetings and coordinate logistics for the competition season.
Keerthi Ponnapureddy was involved analysis of literature and past iGEM teams, conceptualization of our project idea, collecting data, and data curation. She was involved with ensuring our project was in compliance with the safety guidelines or requirements of iGEM, our school, and government. She was also involved with doing write-ups for the wiki.
Joyce Kwack was involved analysis of literature and past iGEM teams, conceptualization of our project idea, collecting data, and data curation. She was involved with the modeling group of our team and helped to find constants for our equations and was involved in doing write-ups for the wiki.
Ila Gowda was involved analysis of literature and all aspects of our project visualization. She was recorded and edited out project promotion video, and our final presentation video. She created slide shows to explain our project in a visual manner.
Meghna Rath was involved analysis of literature and was a part of our wiki page group. She worked with our president to code the wiki and input all our research into the wiki in a stylistic and clear manner.