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Attributions

The beginning of our project for this year was in February, in a meeting with the members of 2017 and the presence of new students interested in integrating the 2018 team. In the following meetings we decided the project and the name: QS-Comms. In July we started the development of the project in the laboratory, whilst the development of the other areas of the project like human practices, modelling and funding begun around May.

The name, visual identity and wiki design was done by the members of team USP-Brazil. All the process was really wonderful for our personal development, we learned a lot of things about synthetic biology, programming and modelling with all the people who helped us in this journey.

QS-Comms was only possible because the help of the PI professors, the sponsors and all the people who gave us support, advice and motivation in the project development this year.

Principal Investigators (PI)

We are really grateful for all the support Prof. Gisele Monteiro and the Prof. Shaker Chuck Farah gave us. Both PIs contributed with the bureaucratic questions related to funding, laboratory space, reagents and equipments. The ideia of the project was proposed by the students and doesn’t present any connection with the research being conducted in either laboratories. Nevertheless, both professors helped us with theoretical advice about the stages of the project.

Instructor and Advisor

Both advisor and instructor had a big importance in the development of the project. Gabriel Lovate was our instructor and helped us with the design of the DNA parts and project assembly. Henrique Pellin Biasoto was our advisor and helped a great deal in the laboratory experiments, and also gave important advices about microbiology, molecular biology.

Special Thanks

We want to once again express gratitude for all the people who helped us in this wonderful journey. The QS-Comms project was only able to exist because the help of many researchers, teachers and friends who gave us advice with the project, wiki, logo, visual identity, reagents, helped us with financial support from our university and many other aspects of the project development. Special thanks to:

  • Clarisse Reche Nunes da Costa, BSc, College of Philosophy, Linguistics and Humanities, University of São Paulo
  • Prof. Ana Marcia de Sá Guimarães, Ph.D, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo
  • Prof. Astrid de Matos Peixoto Kleinert, Ph.D, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo
  • Prof. Gilberto Fernando Xavier, Ph.D, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo
  • Prof. Marillis do Valle Marques, Ph.D, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo
  • Prof. Rita de Cássia Café Ferreira, Ph.D, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo