Brena Thays Amorim Menezes actively participated in the Interlabs experiments. She has also worked in analysis, conceptualization, background research, public engagement, and writing.
Brenda Cristina de Souza worked on different fronts such as analysis, investigation, maintenance, public engagement, background research, and writing of our wiki.
Christiane de Paula Ribeiro Silva Campos worked mainly in the educational and public engagement. She also contributed to research and writing.
Eduardo Menoti Silva played a role in the analysis and conceptualization of the project, as well as in the investigation, communication and social media, public engagement, background research, and writing.
João Eduardo Levandoski was primarily responsible for mathematical modeling. He also worked on codon optimization, writing, hardware designing and building. Software developing/implementing was also mainly developed by him.
Larissa Fernandes Monteiro was present in the analysis and conceptualization of the project, in addition to providing important collaborations in the investigation and maintenance of the laboratory, fundraising, background research, curatorship, project administration, and writing. As one of the team leaders, was also the main responsible for performing activities to ensure compliance with the general safety guidelines of iGEM and our university.
Marina F. Maximo performed laboratory work, such as mainly bacterial cellulose purification and metabolite quantification. She also acted in background research and writing.
Michele De Vuono Geismar Petineli played an essential role in laboratory, maintenance and safety protocols, as well as project analysis and conceptualization. She worked in public engagement, educational area, fundraising and research, project management and writing of our wiki. As one of our team leaders, was one of the main responsibles for the Visualization and Lab Maintenance during the development of our project.
Ninon M. Flores Barrios played a role in analysis and conceptualization, as well as laboratory research, and engaged in collaborating with other teams. She also participated in background research, writing of our wiki and entrepreneurship model.
Katherine B. Marchesan was actively involved in the Interlabs experiment, transforming plasmids and minipreps, graphic design (illustrations for games and Wiki), as well as creating models, and performing 3D printing of molds for the growth of cellulose blankets in defined formats.
Gabriel Silva Pires was responsible for Wiki design and construction. He was also present in the writing and investigation.
Yugo Mafra Kuno actively participated in building the Wiki page. Created and modeled the game on the project. He also contributed to research and writing.
Luiza Zucchi Hesketh actively participated in the public engagement, communication, writing, background research on the early stages of the project and entrepreneurship model.
Elizabeth Bilsland is a pivotal member of our team. As a PI, she provided laboratory training to team members, helped to secure sponsorship, dealt with red-tape involved in the import of iGEM parts and IDT custom DNA, performed E. coli transformations, minipreps and cloning, registered new parts, and helped with writing. Designed experiments, conceptualized the Bacterial Cellulose game, and provided overall support for the team. In addition, she was the main responsible for the data curation in our project so that it can be used in the future by other iGEM teams or members of the synthetic biology community.
Lucas Miguel de Carvalho acted as team advisor in the validation of the genome-scale metabolic model and provide support in the dry lab experiments.
Prof. Hernane Barud and BioPolMat (UNIARA), Biosmart Nanotechnology LLC, and HB Biotec consortium: provided Komagataeibacter AF1 strain and training on cultivation and BC production, in addition to valuable insights on how we could develop our project. We would also like to thank Dr. Marina de Lima Fontes, researcher and collaborator of BioPolMat (UNIARA), Biosmart Nanotechnology LLC, and HB Biotec consortium. She has an extensive background with production and manipulation of BC and provided training on Komagataeibacter cultivation and BC production.
Members of the Synbio club: participated in outreach activities with the iGEM team.
Prof. Hernandes Carvalho´s team: cultivated fibroblast on Bacterial cellulose.
Prof. Carmen Versissima´s team: cultivated mellanoma cells on Bacterial Cellulose.
Prof. Marcelo Brocchi´s team: granted us permission to use his electroporator.
Prof. André Damasio, Fernanda Lopes de Figueiredo and Laboratory of Enzymology and Molecular Biology (LEBIMO): helpful insights, discussions and helped with carbohydrate quantification.
Laboratory of Genomics and Bioenergy (LGE): supplied equipment for electroporation and glucose measurement.
Fellipe da Silveira Bezerra de Mello acted as team consultant in key stages of Cellulopolis. Provided lab and project support in the wet and dry lab experiments.
We thank the former members for being there and helping in their own way to build the project we have today, especially for the key role in the early stages of the team in raising funds so that we could participate in the competition.
Júlia Oliveira
Gustavo Seguchi
Esther Palmeira
Silas Pontes de Almeida
Giovana Motta
Gratiluz!