Team:LASATX/Attributions




Instructors, Advisors, and Assistants

Andrew Ellington

University of Texas at Austin: Biochemistry Professor and Principal Investigator at Ellington Lab

Dr. Andrew Ellington has been an invaluable supporter of our team, by providing us his laboratory and resources to make this entire project even possible. Dr. Ellington provided the team of high schoolers an opportunity to gain hands-on, laboratory experience and provided excellent counseling and guidance in the design of the project and the analysis of the data. He also has generously funded the majority of this project and helped point the team to the right people to talk to. Working in the Ellington lab was an opportunity the team greatly appreciated and was fortunate enough to have.

Dennis Mishler

University of Texas at Austin: Barrick Lab Research Educator

Dr. Dennis Mishler, from the UT iGem team, has provided much guidance to this team by meeting with students every week and checking the progress of the project. He helped the team troubleshoot many details of the project and helped the team analyze the collected data. The LASATX team also gained an opportunity to help and collaborate with the UT iGem team and learn new techniques to apply to their own project. Dr. Mishler and his team also guided the LASATX team in presentation techniques, effective methods of conveying information to judges, and Human Practices.

Joseph Oleniczak

LASA High School Biotechnology Teacher

Our teacher sponsor who gave advice in project design and allowed us to use his room for in-school meetings.

Michelle Byrom

University of Texas at Austin: Ellington Lab Research Assistant and Moral Support

Michelle provided general lab assistance, as she was always present to be our first go-to whenever we needed help in the lab.

Ella Watkins

University of Texas at Austin: Ellington Lab Undergraduate Research Assistant and Moral Support

Ella also provided general lab assistance, including creating a lab training day for new members to learn lab practices. She has helped us through the iGEM process as well.

Drew Tack

University of Texas at Austin: Ellington Lab Graduate Research Assistant

Drew has assisted in troubleshooting problems, especially in the CO experiment, Gibson assemblies, and PCR portions of the project.

Arti Pothukuchy

University of Texas at Austin: Ellington Lab Research Assistant

Arti has provided general lab assistance and guidance.

Jimmy Gollihar

University of Texas at Austin: Ellington Lab Graduate Research Assistant

Jimmy has helped in designing primers, adjusting protocols, and working with the Geneious program.

Ross Thyer

University of Texas at Austin: Ellington Lab Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Ross taught iGEM members the Quikchange protocols.

Andre Maranhao

University of Texas at Austin: Ellington Lab Graduate Research Assistant

Andre assisted with general lab and technical support.

Dr. Bryan W. Davies

University of Texas at Austin: Assistant Professor

Dr. Davies was the one who gave us an idea on how to construct the anaerobic chamber and advice on growing anaerobically.

Randall Hughes

The University of Texas at Austin: Laboratory Assistance

Randall helped with the synthesis of DNA sequences.

Carolyn Hargrave

The University of Texas at Austin: Laboratory Assistance

Carolyn helped with the synthesis of DNA sequences.

University of Texas at Austin iGEM Team

Gave much guidance on the iGEM process and assistance with BioBricks and parts submissions.

Lambert High School iGEM Team

Gave guidance on the iGEM process.


BioBrick Contributors

2010 METU Turkey Team

Stemmed the use of the carbon monoxide pathway for the team.

2006 MIT Team

Stemmed the use of the wintergreen pathway for the team.

Additional Funding

The Ellington Lab at the University of Texas at Austin

Provided significant amounts of funding in order for the team to be able to compete at the Jamboree.

University of Georgia

Gave funding for the team to attend the Jamboree and compete amongst internationally ranked teams.

Glenn Reynolds

Store Owner of Breed & Co

Allowed us to use his store-front for fundraising for the team.

Crestview Minimax IGA Store

Allowed us to fundraise in front of the store.

Media

Chris Cervini

Media Coverage Specialist

Helped promote the team to the local community and gain press coverage on KXAN and KUT.

Team Members

Isaree Pitaktong

Organizing and running the team, researching and brainstorming process, design phase, wet lab work, troubleshooting, documenting and editing protocols, and creating shared guide with collection of protocols

Dylan Danzeiser

Worked in the lab setting up experiments, designing fragments/the construct, sequencing, and analyzing data. Was part of project design and organization.

Kisha Patel

Performed lots of wet lab work, brainstorming for the initial project, interviewing for media purposes, troubleshooting on testing phases, and lots of testing.

Pia Sen

Worked in the lab setting up and executing experiments as well as designing different parts of the construct. Was part of project design and organization.

Sam Gunn

Worked on design and execution of project including participation in lab work. Worked on project brainstorm and organization.

James Choi

Wet lab work, brainstorm, helped with the wiki, made all banner/logos/pictures, and basically anything graphic design related.

Ella Pettichord

Worked on human practices support. Helped fundraise and promotion as well participated in lab work.

Sally Jung

Fundraising, came up with banner logo, currently helping with ideas for poster, helped with design stuff, miscellaneous lab work.

Oliver Zhao

Participated in wet lab work, helped fundraise, and was responsible for the majority of the posting and organization of content for the team wiki, excluding graphic designs.

Anna Savelyeva

Worked on fundraising and promoting the project. She also worked on some lab work and was a part of the brainstorming process to incorporate the carbon monoxide aspect in the project.

Jasmine Stone

Helped come up with the idea for the project. Also a wiki editor and did occasional lab jobs.

Caleb Ellington

Worked on the project brainstorming, design, and organization. Also worked on the wiki.

Anusha Vavilikolanu

Worked on web lab work, human practice support, promoting the project, and the wiki.

Ujwal Punyamurtula

Worked on the wiki and performed various tasks around the lab.

Sofia Valdivieso

Worked on lab jobs and executing parts of the experiment.

Travis Colbert

Worked on anything he could help with in lab and learned about biology.