Team:HKUST-Hong Kong/contribution.html

iGEM 2011 HKUST team is composed of 29 undergraduate members, 10 advisors, and 3 instructors. Together, we have gone through successes, setbacks, and precious moments as a team to beget the E. trojan.

The project, starting from the proposal of its topic to its implementation and finalization, is carried out independently by the team members. Our instructors and advisors, however, have provided us with great technical support and invaluable experience sharing. Without them, there is no way the project could reach its current state. Right now, we have submitted eight BioBrick parts, one of which has been characterized and also a new plasmid vector. All of them were designed and constructed through a great collaborative effort by our team members.

Laboratory work apart, our Human Practice Group also held a "Synthetic Biology Workshop" in September and conducted a “Synthetic Biology Survey” for the general public in Hong Kong (mostly alumni and students of HKUST). The questionnaire was disseminated from August to October this year. The lab tour in the workshop was coordinated by our instructor Dr. Jessica TANG. The survey was originated from IDC and Biofaction in Austria [kindly provided by Markus Schmidt, Lei Pei and Wolfgang Kerbe] and was further modified by our human practice team members.

Supports from external parties on data evaluation are documented in details on our Acknowledgements page.

Our members' detailed work distribution is listed as follows:
Project: E. trojan

Project Proposal:
Nathaniel, Trevor, Theodore

Project Documentation:
Trevor, Theodore, Nathaniel, Shirley, Vege, Cynthia, Michael, Kelly, Steven, Claire, Wendy, Jeff

Lab Work:
1 Strain Construction
Trevor, Nathaniel, Shirley, Vege, Cynthia Chen, Wayne, Michael, Kelly, Jinny, Bonita, Kwan, Max, Vincent

2 Culture Test
Theodore, Nathaniel, Steven, Claire, Wendy Xu, Yellow, Julia, Peter, Alfie, Susanna, Billy

3 Construction and characterization of BioBricks
Nathaniel, Trevor, Theodore, Shirley, Vege, Jinny, Kelly, Michael, Bonita, Wendy Xu, Steven, Claire.

Human Practice:

1 Synthetic Biology Workshop

Organizers:
Wendy Xu, Theodore, Steven, Claire, Michael, Jeff, Shirley, Max, Kwan, Ting

Card Game-The Life of E.coli Designer:
Steven, Jeff, Theodore, Shirley.

Video on game rule:
Shirley, Audrey

“Be a Plasmid Engineer” Designer:
Claire, Michael

Helpers:
Wendy Xu,Theodore, Steven, Claire, Michael, Jeff, Shirley, Max, Kwan, Ting, Yimo, Julie, Joyce, Vege, Wendy Lu.

Institutional facilitation:
Prof. King Lau Chow ( team instructor), Dr. Jessica Ce Mun Tang( team instructor), Ms Kit Ng( team instructor)

2 Synthetic Biology Survey

Modification:
Shirley, Steven, Wendy

Data analysis:
Shirley, Jeff, Steven, Wendy Xu, Claire, Cynthia Chen

Report:
Shirley

Original design of the survey before adaptation:
Markus Schmidt, Lei Pei and Wolfgang Kerbe of IDC and Biofaction, Austria

Others:

1 Secretary of general meeting:
Claire, Shirley

2 Wiki:

a. Design and construction of Wiki
Ting, Jeff, Jack

b. Editing of wiki
Ting, Jeff, Jack, Jinny, Nathaniel, Trevor, Theodore, Steven, Claire, Wendy Xu, Kelly, Shirley

3 Poster
Vege

4 T-shirt and Mascot
Susanna, Vege, Yellow, Alfie, Max

5 Modeling:
Cynthia Wang, Nathaniel

Home

Our Project

Overview | Data Page

Experiments and Results

Strain Construction | Culture Test | Modeling

Miscellaneous

Notebook

iGEM Resources

Acknowledgements

The Team

iGEM Member List | Contributions

Achievements

Medal Requirements | BioSafety

BioBricks

Master List & Characterization Data

Human Practice

Workshop | Survey