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Thank you so much for all of the help you provided to our 2016 iGEM project this year. As a recap, Cornell iGEM is an undergraduate synthetic biology project team composed of 25 undergraduates from all years and majors. We compete in the International Genetically Engineered Machines Giant Jamboree in the fall.
This past October, we were nominated for the Best Integrated Practices award, which is given to the top 5 out of 300 teams at the competition! The Integrated Practices award is given to a team which best analyzes their community impact and incorporates feedback into their project. This is a huge honor, and we could not have done it without your support.
We dove into combating mastitis in an innovative way 7 months ago, and it is because of your help that our bacteriocins treatment, milking shell, and app evolved to where it is today. At competition, judges, members of other teams, and representatives from startup companies all praised our approach. We hope that through our project, more awareness about the dairy industry and synthetic biology have been raised.
We thank you for all the financial support! If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at cornelligem@gmail.com. You can also take a look at our project wiki here: http://2016.igem.org/Team:Cornell_NY/ and learn more about the Cornell iGEM team here: https://igem.engineering.cornell.edu.
Happy New Year!
Cornell iGEM
Hi! Our team is super excited to announce our Wiki for our 2016 iGEM competition after a lot of hard work! We present to you: Legendairy!
Check out our wiki!
http://2016.igem.org/Team:Cornell_NY/defaulthome
None of this would have been possible without your support! Thank you!
We have less than an hour until the end of the campaign and we wanted to thank everyone who helped us reach our goal! We wouldn’t have made it without your support! Check back often for updates on our project!
Thank you for sticking with us this far! We deeply appreciate all the support we’ve received! We are wrapping thing up for the summer and getting ready for the school year. Our team can’t wait for the competition season to showcase our project!
We have less than a week of our summer left and our team is trying to get a lot of the things done before school starts!
We are almost at 40% of our goal but we only have 9 days left! We really need your help to make our project successful! Please continue supporting us and spreading the word about Cornell iGEM’s crowdfunding campaign!
Thank you to everyone who donated so far! We had a quick start and have reached nearly a third of our target. However, we still have a long way to go and need any support that you can give.
In the past few weeks the Wet Lab subteam has been finishing our genetic cloning and have started to move on to protein testing.
CS/ECE has finished designing our app which will make mastitis treatment easier for farmers and has begun development.
Policy and Practices wrapped up another successful summer of involvement with the YOURS program. We have been mentoring students all summer and last week we took them to a dairy farm to show where our mastitis project will be implemented. We have also been visiting many other farms to get more feedback on our product and gain a better understanding of the dairy industry.
Product Development has been continuing to design the device we would be using to prevent mastitis. We have been sketching modules, finalizing features, and making silicone molds.
Our team is hard at work on our project and believe it will be successful. We have gained a lot of experience as students Any support you can give our crowdfunding campaign will allow us to do more for our project and learn more in the process.
A donation of $10 would allow us to purchase basic lab supplies including pipette tips, test tubes, and petri dishes that we use on the daily. Each and every contribution helps and is greatly appreciated!
A donation of $25 allows us to purchase a pack of 25 centrifuge tubes. We use these tubes every day in our wetlab, and they are absolutely essential to our work!
A donation of $50 allows us to purchase the enzymes and other such lab reagents needed for synthetic biology research. All our reactions require enzymes, so they are very important!
Each donation of $100 allows us to synthesize an additional type of bacteriocins used in our research. With every additional bacteriocin we are able to afford, our results will be able to more concretely determine the most effective treatment against mastitis, which would benefit the entire dairy community.
With a donation of $250, we would be able to purchase DNA sequencing tests, synthesize genes, and obtain vector plasmids necessary for the molecular cloning techniques used in synthetic biology.
With a donation of $500, we would be able to fund all of our outreach costs for the entire year. We are involved in several programs to expose youth in and around Ithaca to science and engineering. We believe that it is very important to invest in future scientists!
A donation of $1000 would cover all of our projected non-reusable laboratory equipment for the duration of the entire project as well as into the future. This is an absolutely essential cost of our work, and the ability to cover these costs allow us to dedicate even more funds to wetlab, drylab, and outreach work. By donating $1000, you are contributing to all aspects of the team and allowing us to achieve and exceed our project goals.