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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/Team-Member |class=advisors|picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/igemewiki%20team%20photos/advisors/d.jpg" height="130" width="168"/></html>|name=William Graham Richards|position= C.B.E., Senior Researcher in Molecular CAD|description= '''Professor William Graham Richards, C.B.E., M.A., D.Phil, D.Sc, C.Chem, FRSC''' was Head of Chemistry (1997-2006) at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and the author of 300 scientific articles and 15 books. He is a council member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of The Royal Institution. He applied computational techniques to solving quantum mechanical problems in theoretical chemistry at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford and became one of the pioneers in the field of computer-aided molecular design for industry, particularly in pharmaceuticals. His work has been recognised by awards including the Mullard Award of The Royal Society, Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize, the Italgas Prize and the 2004 Award of the American Chemical Society for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research. He is a council member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the Royal Institution.He was one of the co-founders (with Tony Marchington) of Oxford Molecular Ltd. which was worth £450 million at its peak but which was eventually sold for £70million. He also helped set up Isis Innovation, Oxford's technology transfer company that has brought around 60 spin-out companies into existence, generating tens of millions of pounds of income for the university. He instigated a screensaver project which exploited idle time on over three million personal computers in over 200 countries to screen 3.5 billion compounds against protein targets. This led to the formation of the spin-out company Inhibox Ltd. where Professor Richards now conducts his research. He donated his shares in the company to a cancer research charity in 2002. He is a non-executive director of IP Group plc.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/Team-Advisor |class=advisors|picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/igemewiki%20team%20photos/advisors/d.jpg" height="130" width="168"/></html>|name=William Graham Richards|position= C.B.E., Senior Researcher in Molecular CAD|description= '''Professor William Graham Richards, C.B.E., M.A., D.Phil, D.Sc, C.Chem, FRSC''' was Head of Chemistry (1997-2006) at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and the author of 300 scientific articles and 15 books. He is a council member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of The Royal Institution. He applied computational techniques to solving quantum mechanical problems in theoretical chemistry at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford and became one of the pioneers in the field of computer-aided molecular design for industry, particularly in pharmaceuticals. His work has been recognised by awards including the Mullard Award of The Royal Society, Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize, the Italgas Prize and the 2004 Award of the American Chemical Society for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research. He is a council member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the Royal Institution.He was one of the co-founders (with Tony Marchington) of Oxford Molecular Ltd. which was worth £450 million at its peak but which was eventually sold for £70million. He also helped set up Isis Innovation, Oxford's technology transfer company that has brought around 60 spin-out companies into existence, generating tens of millions of pounds of income for the university. He instigated a screensaver project which exploited idle time on over three million personal computers in over 200 countries to screen 3.5 billion compounds against protein targets. This led to the formation of the spin-out company Inhibox Ltd. where Professor Richards now conducts his research. He donated his shares in the company to a cancer research charity in 2002. He is a non-executive director of IP Group plc.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/Team-Member |class=advisors|picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/igemewiki%20team%20photos/advisors/e.jpg" height="130" width="168"/></html>|name=Saul Purton|position=Senior Lecturer and Group Leader of UCL Algal Research|description= '''Dr.Saul Purton''' is the supervisor of the research that sparked the creation of CUO. A central focus throughout his research career has been the chloroplast organelle of plants and algae.  He has explored questions regarding its evolution; its biology (mainly photosynthesis, but more recently other metabolic processes such as fatty acid and isoprenoid biosynthesis), its molecular biology (the evolutionary forces that have shaped the chloroplast genome, and how the nucleus coordinates the expression of chloroplast genes), and its genetic engineering and biotechnological exploitation.  Almost all of this research has involved the green alga Chlamydomonas as a model system.  Indeed, his research is underpinned by the many genetic engineering tools his lab has developed (and are continuing to develop) for Chlamydomonas.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/Team-Advisor |class=advisors|picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/igemewiki%20team%20photos/advisors/e.jpg" height="130" width="168"/></html>|name=Saul Purton|position=Senior Lecturer and Group Leader of UCL Algal Research|description= '''Dr.Saul Purton''' is the supervisor of the research that sparked the creation of CUO. A central focus throughout his research career has been the chloroplast organelle of plants and algae.  He has explored questions regarding its evolution; its biology (mainly photosynthesis, but more recently other metabolic processes such as fatty acid and isoprenoid biosynthesis), its molecular biology (the evolutionary forces that have shaped the chloroplast genome, and how the nucleus coordinates the expression of chloroplast genes), and its genetic engineering and biotechnological exploitation.  Almost all of this research has involved the green alga Chlamydomonas as a model system.  Indeed, his research is underpinned by the many genetic engineering tools his lab has developed (and are continuing to develop) for Chlamydomonas.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/Team-Member |class=advisors|picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/igemewiki%20team%20photos/advisors/a.jpg" height="130" width="168"/></html>|name=Andrew C.R. Martin|position=Senior Lecturer and Bioinformatician in Structural & Molecular Biology|description='''Dr. Martin''' is best known for his work on analysis and modelling of antibodies and analysis of the effects of mutations on protein structure and function. His group is analysing antibody sequence and structure with a view to understanding how the immune system tailors binding to a given antigen and how antibodies can be humanised or sythesised. Other work in the group has looked at improving sequence alignment for protein modelling and creating automated pipelines for protein sequence annotation. Apart from in depth knowledge regarding bioinformatics software and database development, he also has a vast experience in commercializing his works.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/Team-Advisor |class=advisors|picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/igemewiki%20team%20photos/advisors/a.jpg" height="130" width="168"/></html>|name=Andrew C.R. Martin|position=Senior Lecturer and Bioinformatician in Structural & Molecular Biology|description='''Dr. Martin''' is best known for his work on analysis and modelling of antibodies and analysis of the effects of mutations on protein structure and function. His group is analysing antibody sequence and structure with a view to understanding how the immune system tailors binding to a given antigen and how antibodies can be humanised or sythesised. Other work in the group has looked at improving sequence alignment for protein modelling and creating automated pipelines for protein sequence annotation. Apart from in depth knowledge regarding bioinformatics software and database development, he also has a vast experience in commercializing his works.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/Team-Member |class=advisors|picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/igemewiki%20team%20photos/advisors/b.jpg" height="130" width="168"/></html>|name=Simcha Jong|position=Assistant Professor in Management Science and Innovation|description='''Simcha''''s research focuses on '''business development and product innovation in knowledge-intensive sectors''', particularly in the life sciences sector. His research engages with traditions in the sociology of organizations and knowledge literature as well as traditions in the management literature focusing on the management of technology, strategy, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, and innovation policy.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/Team-Advisor |class=advisors|picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/igemewiki%20team%20photos/advisors/b.jpg" height="130" width="168"/></html>|name=Simcha Jong|position=Assistant Professor in Management Science and Innovation|description='''Simcha''''s research focuses on '''business development and product innovation in knowledge-intensive sectors''', particularly in the life sciences sector. His research engages with traditions in the sociology of organizations and knowledge literature as well as traditions in the management literature focusing on the management of technology, strategy, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, and innovation policy.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/Team-Member |class=advisors|picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/igemewiki%20team%20photos/advisors/c.jpg" height="130" width="168"/></html>|name=Henry Taunt|position=PhD Candidate of Therapeutic Proteins in Algal Chloroplast|description='''Henry''' is the alpha beta user and the instructor of the first ever research that triggers the emergence of CUO. His PhD is focused on utilizing <html><em>C. reinhardtii</em></html> as an expression platform for therapeutic proteins.  In particular, he is investigating a potential novel class of antibiotics known as bacteriophage endolysins.  These are lytic enzymes from bacterial specific viruses that enable the viral particles to escape the bacterial cell at the end of their life cycle.  This is done by breaking apart the peptidoglycan cell wall.  He has cloned the gene that encodes one of these enzymes into the <html><em>C. reinhardtii</em></html> chloroplast, and shown that the enzyme produced is able to specifically attack a penicillin-resistant human pathogen.  At present, he is attempting to purify and characterize this lysin, as well as beginning investigations into two more lysins specific to human pathogens.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/Team-Advisor |class=advisors|picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/igemewiki%20team%20photos/advisors/c.jpg" height="130" width="168"/></html>|name=Henry Taunt|position=PhD Candidate of Therapeutic Proteins in Algal Chloroplast|description='''Henry''' is the alpha beta user and the instructor of the first ever research that triggers the emergence of CUO. His PhD is focused on utilizing <html><em>C. reinhardtii</em></html> as an expression platform for therapeutic proteins.  In particular, he is investigating a potential novel class of antibiotics known as bacteriophage endolysins.  These are lytic enzymes from bacterial specific viruses that enable the viral particles to escape the bacterial cell at the end of their life cycle.  This is done by breaking apart the peptidoglycan cell wall.  He has cloned the gene that encodes one of these enzymes into the <html><em>C. reinhardtii</em></html> chloroplast, and shown that the enzyme produced is able to specifically attack a penicillin-resistant human pathogen.  At present, he is attempting to purify and characterize this lysin, as well as beginning investigations into two more lysins specific to human pathogens.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/Team-Advisor |class=advisors|picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3703109/igeme/uditization/devaki-ramachandran.jpg" height="130" width="168" style=""/></html>|name=Devaki Ramachandran|position=Industrial Bioinformatician|description=Devaki Possesses an outstanding record for achievements and experiences in academic institutions such as the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences as well as industrial key players such as Eli Lilly, Devaki has knowledge of both the technical and commercial aspects of running such an operation and is a great boost to the team.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/timeline-item |class=attr |date=Sep-2011 |picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/Timeline/0.jpg" width="125" height="125" /></html> |title=Birth of CUO |description=Khai wrote the first ever draft of CUO, havng no idea of what the software will become one day. He made it for his third year degree research project under supervision of Dr. Saul Purton. The function of CUObeta0.1 is only limited to analyse genome of a host, an extreme tiny version of CUO compared to current one.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/timeline-item |class=attr |date=Sep-2011 |picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/Timeline/0.jpg" width="125" height="125" /></html> |title=Birth of CUO |description=Khai wrote the first ever draft of CUO, having no idea of what the software will become one day. He made it for his third year degree research project under supervision of Dr. Saul Purton. The function of CUObeta0.1 is only limited to analyse genome of a host, an extreme tiny version of CUO compared to current one.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/timeline-item |class=attr |date=Mar-2012 |picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/Timeline/1.png" width="125" height="125" /></html> |title=First Release |description=Following the completion of Khai's dissertation, CUObeta0.8 was released. A website for CUO was launched. CUO was declared open source and the first group of beta users experience CUO in first hand, fascinating!}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/timeline-item |class=attr |date=Mar-2012 |picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/Timeline/1.png" width="125" height="125" /></html> |title=First Release |description=Following the completion of the dissertation, CUObeta0.8 was released. After that, a website for CUO was launched and the programme was declared open source. Soon, the first group of beta users experienced CUO in first hand, fascinating!}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/timeline-item |class=attr |date=Jul-2012 |picture=<html><img src="http://www.csslab.cl/ejemplos/timelinr/latest/images/3.png" width="125" height="125" /></html> |title=Release of CUO beta 0.9 |description=.|participants=Khai}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/timeline-item |class=attr |date=Jul-2012 |picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/Timeline/2.jpg" width="125" height="125" /></html> |title=Team Formation |description=With release of beta0.9, CUO joined iGEME competition. The initial team was formed by Alfred, Kheng, Li Meng and Khai. Right after that, Aakansha and Anastasia joined in with advisory role followed by Farhan with editorial role and eventually Freedanz joined as CEO. The company sprouted!}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/timeline-item |class=attr |date=Aug-2012 |picture=<html><img src="http://www.csslab.cl/ejemplos/timelinr/latest/images/3.png" width="125" height="125" /></html> |title=Release of CUO 0.91 beta |description=. |participants=Khai}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/timeline-item |class=attr |date=Aug-2012 |picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/Timeline/3.jpg" width="125" height="125" /></html> |title=Production |description=The first business plan draft, elevator pitch and slide deck were completed by the crews. Beta0.91 was released, with significant improvements in UI and functions. CLCBio sponsored 5 workbench licenses to the team. Ali joined the team as core Web Developer and the wiki is in good hands ever after.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/timeline-item |class=attr |date=Sep-2012 |picture=<html><img src="http://www.csslab.cl/ejemplos/timelinr/latest/images/3.png" width="125" height="125" /></html> |title=Challenges |description=.|participants=Khai}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/timeline-item |class=attr |date=Sep-2012 |picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/Timeline/4.jpg" width="125" height="125" /></html> |title=Interaction |description=The team had carried out aggressive strategies to boost the company's outreach. Four bioinformaticians and three business crews came aboard. Company facebook page, twitter and youtube channel were launched. Visited Chris Rayner from UCL Advance and Sean Ward from Synthace, gained invaluable insight into latest business ideas and technologies.}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/timeline-item |class=attr |date=Oct-2012 |picture=<html><img src="http://www.csslab.cl/ejemplos/timelinr/latest/images/3.png" width="125" height="125" /></html> |title=Money |description=.|participants=Khai}}
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{{:Team:UCLondon/Templates/timeline-item |class=attr |date=Oct-2012 |picture=<html><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45600819/Timeline/5.png" width="125" height="125" /></html> |title=Go |description=Beta0.92 was released. CUO formed its repository on Github. Freedanz and Khai attended Playground event hosted by Index Ventures. The team received sponsorship from UCL Engineering and UCL Advance. Business plan, elevator pitch, wiki page and slide decks were finalized, packed and ready to go for the jamboree!}}

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