Integrated Human Practices

This page contains all the external contacts who have helped shaped our project. For every entry, copy this template and fill out the TODOs.

Name

  • person of contact: TODO
  • institution type: TODO
  • iHP interview notes: TODO
  • relationship to team: TODO
  • tasks: TODO

[TODO: few sentences on what they have helped us with]

Software

Dr. Jon Corbett

  • person of contact: Narjis
  • institution type: Academic
  • iHP interview notes: 04/03/2024
  • relationship to team: Collaborator, External Advisor
  • tasks: Conceptualization

Provided context for our DNA storage platform (indigenous history) and offered technical advice for dealing with high rates of deletion

rmehri01

  • person of contact: Lucy
  • institution type: Industry
  • relationship to team: External Advisor
  • tasks: Wiki Coding, Conceptualization

Helped set up Codespaces for team to develop without needing to set up a local environment, as well as set of Replit. Ideation of algorithms for software and development stack.

Microfluidics

Dr. Albert Folch

  • person of contact: Piyush
  • institution type: Academic
  • relationship to team: External Advisor
  • tasks: Conceptualization

Helped dry lab with initial planning related to do SPS with microfluidics.

Dr. Karen Cheung, Professor at UBC SBME

  • person of contact: Piyush
  • institution type: Academic
  • iHP interview notes: 28/03/2024
  • relationship to team: External Advisor
  • tasks: Conceptualization

Helping develop and refine microfluidic chips, primarily will be focusing on PCR chip.

Wet Lab

Name

  • person of contact: TODO
  • institution type: TODO
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  • relationship to team: TODO
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Ethics

Dr. Holly Longstaff

  • person of contact: Yejin
  • institution type: Industry
  • iHP interview notes: 07/03/2024
  • relationship to team: External Advisor
  • tasks: Conceptualization

Helped give insight on the direction of the project related to health care data systems

Kenny Hammond

  • person of contact: Jessica
  • institution type: Industry
  • iHP interview notes: 11/03/2024
  • relationship to team: External Advisor
  • tasks: Conceptualization

Helped give insight on the direction of the project related to health care data systems

Project Development

Dr. Nozomu Yachie, Professor at UBC SBME, Director of Research

  • person of contact: Chae
  • institution type: Academic
  • iHP interview notes: 22/03/2024
  • relationship to team: External Advisor
  • tasks: Conceptualization

Provided technical advice during project conceptualization regarding the rationale behind using TdT-based enzymatic DNA synthesis, suggested using NGS to verify ssDNA elongation and strategic experimental design to overcome the long turnaround time between NGS sequencing runs, and suggested various encoding/decoding algorithms.

Eric Ma

  • person of contact: Chae/Narjis
  • iHP interview notes: 19/01/2024
  • institution type: Industry
  • relationship to team: Sponsor

Helping us pay for hosting of our domain, and gave general advice for managing a successful iGEM team