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MIT: From: Mounica Paturu <mounica@MIT.EDU> Date: August 8, 2013, 7:52:46 AM PDT To: "Kmunnelly@gen9bio.com" <Kmunnelly@gen9bio.com> Subject: 2013 MIT iGEM Team
Hello Mr. Munnelly,
I hope your summer has been well! I wanted to ask if Gen9 would be interested in sponsoring the 2013 MIT iGEM Team. We’re a group of Undergraduate students that are working in the MIT Synthetic Biology Center in the Weiss Lab. We’re representing MIT in the iGEM competition, the premier student global synthetic biology event, and we’ll be competing with over 253 teams from Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the US to win gold. The iGEM Jamboree is the largest annual gathering of synthetic biologists and an opportunity for your company to build visibility in the new field of Synthetic Biology by sponsoring the MIT iGEM team.
This year we’re working on engineering cellular transportation via exosomes. In brief, the goals of our project include transporting microRNA and a series of proteins through exosomes to induce an effect in the receiver cells – whether that is fluorescence, proliferation, or differentiation. In the future, we hope to progress the project past iGEM and continue developing cellular transportation through exosomes to be tailored to drug delivery and other medical applications.
I have attached an official letter from MIT Professor Weiss requesting sponsorship and a booklet we have put together describing the advantages of becoming a sponsor, our previous sponsors, our past gold medal successes, a more detailed project description, and the success of our alumni, the majority who go on to work for companies such as yours.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l04a77wl4o50dh7/2013%20-%20MIT%20iGEM%20Sponsor%20Book%2C%20v9.docx
If there is an alternative contact person in your company who oversees sponsorship matters, please let me know so I can talk to them directly about this opportunity to support our successful MIT team.
Thank you for your time and we look forward to connecting with you! Best, Mounica Paturu Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘16 Department of Biology Gen9: From: Andrew Bond <abond@gen9bio.com> Subject: Re: 2013 MIT iGEM Team Date: August 8, 2013 3:20:59 PM EDT To: mounica@mit.edu
Hello Mounica,
Kevin Munnelly forwarded your email to me. We are interested in sponsoring your team, if that means supplying synthesized genes at no cost. If that is how you would ,like us to help please let me know.
I have a few questions assuming we sponsor by providing free gene synthesis services: (1) How many genes? (2) What size? (3) When would you need them? (4) When would you send in sequences? (5) Will the sequences be within our design guidelines? (6) Do you need them cloned into expression vectors?
Best regards,
Andrew -- Andrew Bond, PhD | Director of Marketing and Customer Support Gen9, Inc. p - 617.500.7782 c - 508.341.7586
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MIT: From: Mounica Paturu [mailto:mounica@MIT.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 1:55 PM To: URSIN, VIRGINIA [AG/2551] Subject: 2013 MIT iGEM Team
Hello Dr. Ursin,
I’m a student on the 2013 MIT iGEM Team and I wanted to follow up with you on Monsanto’s continued sponsorship of our iGEM team. As you already know, we’re a group of Undergraduate students that are working in the MIT Synthetic Biology Center in the Weiss Lab. We’re representing MIT in the iGEM competition, the premier student global synthetic biology event, and we’ll be competing with over 253 teams from Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the US to win gold. The iGEM Jamboree is the largest annual gathering of synthetic biologists and an opportunity for your company to build visibility in the new field of Synthetic Biology by sponsoring the MIT iGEM team.
This year we’re working on engineering cellular transportation via exosomes. In brief, the goals of our project include transporting microRNA and a series of proteins through exosomes to induce an effect in the receiver cells – whether that is fluorescence, proliferation, or differentiation. In the future, we hope to progress the project past iGEM and continue developing cellular transportation through exosomes to be tailored to drug delivery and other medical applications.
I have attached an official letter from MIT Professor Weiss requesting sponsorship and a booklet we have put together describing the advantages of becoming a sponsor, our previous sponsors, our past gold medal successes, a more detailed project description, and the success of our alumni, the majority who go on to work for companies such as yours.
If there is an alternative contact person in your company who oversees sponsorship matters, please let me know so I can talk to them directly about this opportunity to support our consistently successful MIT team.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l04a77wl4o50dh7/2013%20-%20MIT%20iGEM%20Sponsor%20Book%2C%20v9.docx
Thank you for your time and we look forward to connecting with you!
Best, Mounica Paturu Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘16 Department of Biology
Monsanto: From: "URSIN, VIRGINIA (AG/2551)" <virginia.ursin@monsanto.com> Subject: RE: 2013 MIT iGEM Team Date: August 7, 2013 4:54:41 PM EDT To: Mounica Paturu <mounica@mit.edu> Cc: "WEBER, MICHELLE J (AG/1005)" <michelle.j.weber@monsanto.com>
Dear Mounica, Thank you for your note. We would be happy to support the MIT iGEM team again this year, for the same amount as last year. Michelle Weber, copied on this email, will assist in processing the payment for $1000. Please send the invoice to her. We are happy to continue our sponsorship of this amazing program! Please let me know how we can stay engaged in this year’s competition! Regards,
Ginni
Virginia Ursin PhD. Technology Prospecting Lead Science Fellow Monsanto Research 62 Maritime Drive Mystic CT 06379 (860) 572-5212 (Office)
From: "GILBERTSON, LARRY A [AG/2076]" <larry.a.gilbertson@monsanto.com> Subject: FW: 2013 MIT iGEM Team Date: February 12, 2014 10:49:49 AM EST To: "mounica@MIT.EDU" <mounica@mit.edu> Hi Mounica, How’s it going? I’m the site lead here at the Monsanto lab in Cambridge. We were happy to help fund the work on your iGEM team. I know you and the team are probably very busy, but I just wanted to check in to see how the project is going. I hope things are going well. If you would be interested in chatting with any of our scientists here and/or coming for a visit (we’re in Kendall Square) please let me know. Regards Larry Gilbertson Monsanto Company
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