Attributions

Adam
Johansson
Holopainen

Adam is our design guy! He managed the production of our promotional video together with Sumant and Daniela, and was responsible for creating the cool assets and several of the animations in our videos, as well as illustrations on our team clothing and social media posts. Outside of his expertise with the drawing pad, he spent a lot of the summer participating in the wetlab effort, being involved with minipreps, colony PCR, and a few of our successful clonings.

Aishwarya
Sajimon

Aishwarya was part of both the drylab and wetlab endeavours throughout and acted as a bridge between both when needed. Being a valuable member of wetlab, throughout summer, she picked up various tasks in the bacterial lab and actively participated in cloning and site-directed mutagenesis experiments (SDMs). She also contributed to primer design and optimization of PCR protocols for SDMs during the troubleshooting phases. As part of drylab she was involved in the various in-silico modelling efforts

Amela
Peco

Amela has carried our human practices to success: she has written a children’s book, prepared classroom activities and interviewed many experts throughout the project. She has also been adopted into the wetlab crew during the summer and she became a workhorse creating mutants and midi-prepping during her free time. With her young age, we don’t expect anything else from her other than becoming a great iGEM leader in the future.

Barathram
Swaminathan

Barathram is our lab guru. He’s been involved in pretty much every step from the project conceptualization and development to the validation studies at the end, with every step in between. His knowledge, experience and quick skills in wet lab were crucial during our troubleshooting phases, which would have ended up a lot more painful without Barath.

Daniela
Weh

Daniela was our event manager for SiC, the wetlab taskmaster and a media person. She took up the monumental responsibility of the mutant production part in our project in its entirety and pulled it off. She co-ordinated the “big team” to produce the mutants at breakneck speeds and her long portfolio of other iGEM obligations. For the media team, she contributed with texts, postings and especially with directing the promotion video production alongside Adam and Sumant. Together with Pragha and Sumant, she came up with the idea of organising the first Swedish iGEM conference - short “SIC” - and created the foundation on which subsequent iGEM teams can build up a new tradition.

Evgenia
Paraskevi
Ntaouka

Or Zenia, has been instrumental in bringing several ideas of our wet lab to fruition. She has been involved in helping with the cell culture part of our project apart from offering her never-ending but crucial observations and opinions which shaped the project. She has been a part of other wetlab tasks such as cloning, creating mutants and prepping for the steps in between. In addition, she got involved in media work with promoting our project to the general public through our social media accounts.

Joël
Tekoniemi

Joël is one of the two team leaders with a focus on leading wet lab and human practices as well as co-leading the finance subteam. He has an eye for optimization - relentlessly searching for ways to optimise the experiments and to extract every ounce out of them. He was involved in planning and executing some of our experiments, ordering materials and reaching out to sponsors. He also performed interviews and went to school visits and headed our partnership with UZurich.

Karolina
Gustavsson

Karolina was part of Drylab and has mainly focused on immunogenicity modelling using both linear and discontinuous epitopes. Besides the immunogenicity modelling she also did a bunch of smaller things like modelling thermodynamics between IF and cubilin with Mutabind2.

Keerthi
Anand
Raghavender

Keerthi is another cornerstone of wetlab, who was indispensable with her experience in cell culture part of wet lab. Apart from leading the team for setting up the transfection, western blotting, flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy experiments, she solely led the cell culture faction for the entirety of its execution. She managed to reiterate the protocols until she and the instructors were satisfied. With parallel tasking master thesis and iGEM, she really made bought the vision of the project (Antibodies binding and B12 binding) successful in all her attempts.

Lumeng
Li

As one of the two team leaders, Lumeng mainly led the media and drylab teams as well as co-leads the finance team. Her involvement in the successful grant application was a solid foundation for the smooth progress of the team's project at KI. In addition to funding, she has been instrumental in getting the KI lab up and running. Her good communication with the PI, instructor, advisors, doctors, investors, and sponsors was key to our project's continued improvement with external voices. In research, she has worked on the application of fluorescence detection (also conducted Interlab using plate reader), specialised in image analysis and participated in the development of HEK cell experiments using fluorescence microscopy.

Malcolm
Halvarson

Malcolm was primarily a part of the wetlab team, helping to produce the mutants by setting up PCRs, making cultures and running endless minipreps. In addition, he helped develop ideas in the HP team.

Mariia
Minaeva

With her expertise in Bioinformatics, Mariia has been the pillar of the dry lab team. Not only has she created the script to generate our mutant proteins, she also successfully designed all the primers needed for the site-directed mutagenesis. As co-creator of the ProMutor software, she also mastered the proteins structures prediction, the docking study, and actively participated in every media task.

Praghadhesh
Thiagarajan

Pragha has been the solid link between the Wetlab and Finance team, but focusing a lot on both. Having a firm hand on the ever-increasing expenditures of the wet lab team, he was pivotal in navigating the corporate trenches getting us better deals at every turn. Thanks to him we have obtained grants and sponsors and he has made a substantial amount of mutants and cultures as well. You can often find him typing emails to prospective companies, drafting proposals and as well as organising fikas.

Raphaël
Mauron

Raphaël is our wiki manager, coder, designer,.. Well, without him the wiki would not have existed. Raphaël was part of both wet lab and dry lab team until the wiki marathon began. Despite supporting the wet lab work with his expertise in designing plasmids and inspiring the whole team with his amazing project proposal, he successfully used JavaScript to bring to life our ProMutor software. He also mastered web design and development for both our first official iGEM Stockholm webpage and Wikipage. You won’t believe it when we tell you that he is doing these things for the first time!

Shuanghao
Tang

Primarily a finance team member who has been the point of contact with banks in order to sort out internal fund transfers. Apart from that, she is involved in budgeting, finding external collaborations and sponsors, as well as pitching the product to different incubators. She has assisted the team with various grant applications, which served as a primary source of funding for the project.

Sumant
Salphale

A primary media guy, Sumant managed all of our social media channels and contributed to their content with stunning views from his drone! By listening to so many native speakers in different languages while recording and editing the 11 voice overs of our video, he must be a language expert by now. His ability of fast-understanding made him an amazing mate in the lab. His acumen and sincerity shines through even in wet lab experiments where he was responsible for getting us that perfect cloning result. He was the guy everyone called when the autoclave gave us problems. He also got dragged into almedalen and to perform interviews which earned him a role as honorary member of human practices.

Tingting
Zhou

Tingting Zhou is a member of the finance team and human practices team. As a finance team member, she has co-ordinated with KI Board and KI Innovation for grants. Besides, she contacted some early-stage Venture Capitals for advices of potential business model. Being a part of the human practices team, she is always thrilling to get more feedback about our project from society. For this, she interviewed doctors and consulting companies to understand the current incidence, risks, diagnosis and treatment of PA in clinical trial, and checked the regulation of the application of drugs and food.