Team:Hong Kong HKU/Attributions

Attributions

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all people who supported us throughout the project, for making ETHERNO possible, and bringing us an unforgetable learning experience.

Team PIs

Dr. TANNER, Julian Alexander

    Assistant Dean (Biomedical Sciences Curriculum), Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
    Associate Director (Teaching and Learning), School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

  • HKU iGEM 2018 Primary PI
  • Advised us on DNA nanostructure project design and provided us invaluable guidance and resources throughout the project. HKU iGEM 2018 would not have been possible without the foundation laid by Dr. Tanner.


Professor WONG, Alice Sze Tsai

    Associate Dean, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong

  • HKU iGEM 2018 Secondary PI
  • Advised us on cancer cell culture project design and provided us generous amount of MCF-7 cell line culture resources, enabling us to demonstrate our nanostructure's function.



Team Advisors

    Mr. SHIU, Simon Chi-Chin - PhD candidate, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
  • As a DNA nanotechnology researcher under the tutelage of Dr. Tanner, Simon guided us from nanostructure design to characterization. He helped to acquire the transmission electron microscopic images in this project. He also helped us to develop skills of data analysis and presentation.

    • Mr. SHUKLA, Yash Sanjaykumar - HKU iGEM 2017 team leader
  • Shared with us his previous iGEM experience and helped us with troubleshooting.

HKU School of Biomedical Sciences

    Dr. WONG, Brian Choi Wah - Principal Lecturer, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
  • Generously lent us a DNA model for display at the 51st Joint School Science Exhibition.

    • Ms. CHAN, Ling Chim (Jess) - Senior Technical Officer
  • Provided laboratory technical support and assisted with material preparation throughout the project.

HKU School of Biological Sciences

    Dr. SIT, Wai Hung - Senior Technical Officer
  • Provided us lab space, materials and technical training of MCF-7 cell line culture. Advised us on MTT cytotoxicity assay.

    • Dr. TO, Kit Yan (Sally) - Postdoctoral fellow
  • Advised on MCF-7 cell line fluorescence microscopy and provided technical support.

    • Ms. MAK, Sin Chi (Abby) - Technical Officer
  • Provided us MCF-7 cell line culture technical support and assisted with material preparation.

Special acknowledgement

    Voigt Lab, Synthetic Biology Center, MIT
  • Provided us plasmids pHIV_pTp66p51, pMLRT, pO_72, pO_4 and pO_205 so we could experiment with in-vivo ssDNA synthsis.

    • HK_HCY_LFC team
  • Collaborator (mentee) of HKU iGEM 2018. Please refer to Collaboration for details of how we supported each other

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