Team:New York City/Attributions

Attributions

Our project would have been impossible without help from the following individuals and organizations.

A huge thank you to our three research supervisors, Russell Hanson, Jason Fuller and Andrew Cheng, for providing guidance throughout the complicated and challenging laboratory experiments. We would also like to thank the wonderful staff of the Genetics Department of Mount Sinai Hospital for giving us an opportunity to conduct experiments.

We are also appreciative of our project supervisors Frank Muradov and Suny Oh and their mentorship and motivation throughout the project.

We are grateful to Amar Seoparson, an alumnus from NYU and the Bronx High School of Science, for helping us with integrating our website and transferring content into the Wiki.

We are grateful to Columbia University Synthetic Biology Initiative and Jason Mohabir, a student at Columbia University, for providing us space to present our project and for their valuable feedback.

We appreciate the academic discounts offered by IDT (Integrated DNA Technologies) for G-blocks and NEB for Assembly kit.

We sincerely appreciate the following non-profit research organizations for their informational and community support throughout our endeavor.

We are grateful to Dr. George Yohrling, PhD, Senior Director, Mission and Scientific Affairs and Dr. Leora Fox, PhD, Manager, Research and Mission Programs at Huntington’s Disease Society of America for giving us their feedback about our iGEM research and sharing the most recent developments around Huntington’s Disease nationwide.

We are thankful to Ellen Jorgensen, Ph.D., Co-Founder of Biotech Without Borders, a community lab in Brooklyn NY and entire staff of Biotech Without Borders for allowing us to use her wonderful lab to continue our iGEM research.

We are also grateful to our respective high schools for their community and informational support, and for providing us with academic support.