Attributions

Our team wishes to express its gratitude to all the people and organizations that invested their time and dedication into this project. Every contribution was instrumental in bringing Project CBDynamics to fruition. Without your support, none of this would have been possible!

PI's

Primary PI: Professor André Moreni Lopes, PhD., who has greatly supported us since the beginning of our project throughout the year. He played a crucial role in connecting with the university's finance department, which was a big help in getting our team to the iGEM competition and the Grand Jamboree.

Secondary PI: Professor Fernando Segato, PhD, who has supported us throughout this journey, since the beginning of our project and helped us in different areas, such as modeling and synthetic biology itself. Our project owes a great debt to his mentorship, which has been instrumental in driving our project's advancement.

Instructor

Julia Rodrigues Ortega, who assisted us with her knowledge in laboratory experiments.

Júlio César dos Santos, PhD., who contributed provided great assistance in our bioreactor project.

Advisors

Jean Lucas Ribeiro for his creative insights to Human Practices and general support through the two years of the project.

Pedro Ribeiro Faria for his immense support in the fields of modeling and laboratory experiments.

Fundraising and Marketing

We would like to express our deepest appreciation to Professors André Moreni Lopes, PhD., and Fernando Segato, PhD., our Principal Investigators, and Talita Martins Lacerda, PhD, for their invaluable guidance, organizational methods, and extensive list of contacts, which greatly contributed to our connection with the university's finance department. We also extend our sincere gratitude to Professor Durval Rodrigues Junior, PhD., Director of EEL, and Professor Silvio Silvério da Silva, PhD., Vice-Director, whose support was pivotal in obtaining financial assistance, enabling our participation in the iGEM competition. Additionally, we wish to thank to the Biotechnology Department (DEBIQ) and the Materials Engineering Department (DEMAR), specially Professors Adriane Maria Ferreira Milagres, PhD., the department chief of DEBIQ, and Fábio Herbst Florenzano, PhD., the department chief of DEMAR, for their crucial role in funding our participation at the Grand Jamboree.

We extend our gratitude to those who generously contributed financially by purchasing our raffle tickets.

Thanks to BioLinker and Mona Oliveira for the assistance in the development and revision of our proposed business model.

We express our sincere appreciation to Promega Corporation for awarding the Promega iGEM Grant Sponsorship and providing products that have significantly supported our team's efforts.

We would also like to express our gratitude to Letícia Rigoni Bertolino for her design and conceptualization of our project's logo and visual identity.

Human Practices

We would like to thank our co-leaders Marina Querino Andraus and Larissa Miyuki Katsumata for the coordination and all the work related to Human Practices.

Thanks to Caminho Azul Association and Prof. José Otávio Pompeu for inviting our team to present the CBDynamics project in the official podcast of the 3rd Congress on Autism Spectrum Disorder, in order to disseminate our project and spread the information about CBD, and for displaying our project in the poster session.

Thanks to SynBioBR and SENAI Institute of Innovation for having us at the 1st Brazilian Congress of Synthetic Biology and for the opportunity to present our work to the Brazilian synthetic biology community.

Thanks to the Lorena Technical High School (COTEL) for the opportunity to participate and present at the 11th Science and Culture Week.

Thanks to iGEM Tec CEM, for organizing and inviting us to present at the event iGEM LATAM MeetUp.

Thanks to the Luso-Brazilian Association of Cannabis Nursing (ALBECAN) and the Santa Erva Association for the collaboration of our human practices team.

Thanks to Idoso Amigo organization and Aline Albres for the collaboration in SciElderly project.

Thanks to the Criança Feliz Project (PCF) for the collaboration in ImagineNation project.

Thanks to the Marie Curie organization for the collaboration in IncluSciOn project.

Thanks to the Mother Mazzarello Oratory and Gilmar Benzema for the collaboration in GenCanAdventure.

Thanks to Paulo Aguiar Muniz, from SynBioBR, and Ana Clara Andraus Barros, for helping to assemble and review the public policy participation documents.

Thanks to Professor Eduardo Rezende Triboni, Karine dos Santos Pimentel, Salvador Sánchez Muñoz, Kelvin Thiago Pereira de Oliveira and Pedro de Mendonça Notari, for the support in elaboration and design of the adaptable laboratory apparatus.

Thanks to Ruana Sertão, Kauane Morena and Gabriela Brito Alves, for their feedback and suggestions in the elaboration of the chemical components labels in QRevolution.

Thanks to Mamutes na Ciência and Rebeca Bacani for having us in their amazing podcast MamuCast.

Thanks to Professor Jeronimo Neto, who helped us devise our video in LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language) for the National LIBRAS' Day.

Thanks to Iranildes Oliveira Nascimento de Araujo, Lilian Moas and Rosangela Pires de Almeida Apóstolo Calumbi for kindly translate our presentation video into LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language).

Thanks to the iGEM teams SDU-Denmark, ASIJ-Tokyo, Thessaloniki, TUDelft, UMaryland, Rochester, Toulouse INSA-UPS, JU-Krakow, REC-CHENNAI, CCU Taiwan and Calgary for the data to the collaboration in the women participation at iGEM.

Modeling and Laboratory

Once again, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to our Instructor, Julia Rodrigues Ortega and Professor Júlio César dos Santos, PhD., and our Advisors, Jean Lucas Ribeiro and Pedro Ribeiro Faria, for their valuable insights and guidance throughout the project. We also want to thank to Bianca Henriques de Oliveira and Maryana Bizarria da Silva, our co-leaders of the modeling area, as well as to Manuela Bernardes de Oliveira and Larissa Miyuki Katsumata, from the laboratory team, for their coordination and dedicated efforts.

Thanks to Larissa de Souza Kawanisi for all the help in kinetic modeling.

Wiki

Thanks to our members Luisa Kuymjian Belentani, team marketing leader, Edison Henrique Pimentel Serapião Batalha and Thiago Gugliotta Kimaid for coordinating the wiki elaboration and coding.

Also, thanks to Mateus Vallim Martins, who kindly contributed by conducting a training session for team members on programming and GitLab.

Synthetic Biology Club

We would like to thank our Synthetic Biology Club (CBSin) for all the support and to all the members that helped us finance and disseminate the project.

Special Thanks

We want to thank Clara Beatriz Alves, Henrique Barbi Araujo, Jamily Miiler Butske, Maria Luiza Santino, Serena Angelina Vieira and Julia Kaori Yoneya for following up our team by doing people management monitoring.

We thank, too, Jhonatan Eduardo Garcia Arruda and Pedro Baccarin Correia for their help in the areas of Human Practices and Wet-Lab, respectively.

And a special thanks to all the members, instructor and advisors of Project CBDynamics 2023 that couldn’t continue to work in the project this year:

Ana Luiza da Rocha Fortes Saraiva, Giovanni Henrique Silva, Ana Paula Contelli Xavier, Beatriz Costa Santos, Bruno Monari Nicanor, Camila Klein Fenner, Giovani Garcia de Gaspari Valdejão, Gustavo Cabral Ferraz Santos, Luca Garufe Strefezzi, Lucas Henrique Cardia, Luíza Fonseca Pinheiro, Maria Gabriela Sampaio de Lacerda Leite Araújo, Pedro Baccarin Correia, Vinícius Gusmão de Albuquerque, Vinicius Teixeira Lopes e William Augusto Ribeiro de Almeida Pereira.