Transbiome

Transbiome Team
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Finished 16 / 05 / 2021
Funded!
Received
£ 7,346
Minimum
£ 3,506
Optimum
£ 7,162
214 Co-financiers
Channel

  • Contributing £ 4

    Be acknowledged as a supporter

    Get the warm fuzzy feeling of doing something good! You will optionally be named in the acknowledgements of all publications coming out of our study.

    > 09 Co-financiers

  • Contributing £ 8

    Be well-informed (digital only)

    We will email you a report of what we have learned from this study as soon as we have results!

    ALSO:

    • Be acknowledged as a supporter (optional acknowledgement in publications)
    > 49 Co-financiers

  • Contributing £ 12

    Get a sticker!

    Get a sticker that you can use to show your support of the Transbiome study!

    ALSO:

    • Be acknowledged as a supporter (optional acknowledgement in publications)
    • Be well-informed (a detailed report of the study's results)
    > 40 Co-financiers

  • Contributing £ 25

    Get a pin!

    Get an enamel pin you can put on your backpack, jacket or anywhere else to show your support!

    ALSO:

    • Get a sticker! (a transbiome sticker)
    • Be acknowledged as a supporter (optional acknowledgement in publications)
    • Be well-informed (a detailed report of the study's results)
    > 38 Co-financiers

  • Contributing £ 33

    An ebook of poetry (digital only)

    Our study initiator, Clara Lehenaff, wrote a book of poems (in French) relating to being trans. You will receive a PDF copy of it.

    ALSO:

    • Be acknowledged as a supporter (optional acknowledgement in publications)
    • Be well-informed (a detailed report of the study's results)
    > 08 Co-financiers

  • Contributing £ 50

    Join a webinar about the study (digital only)

    We will invite you to a two hour webinar in which we will present the current state of the study, what we learned from it and the outlook for future research. After our presentation, we'll have a group discussion where you will have a chance to chat with others, ask questions about the study, and give input for what further research could be done.

    ALSO:

    • Be acknowledged as a supporter (optional acknowledgement in publications)
    • Be well-informed (a detailed report of the study's results)
    • An ebook of poetry (a collection of french poems about transidentity)
    > 23 Co-financiers

  • Contributing £ 75

    A physical book of poetry

    Our study initiator, Clara Lehenaff, wrote a book of poems (in French) relating to being trans. You will receive a signed hardcopy version of it.

    ALSO:

    • Get a pin! (a transbiome pin)
    • Get a sticker! (a transbiome sticker)
    • Be acknowledged as a supporter (optional acknowledgement in publications)
    • Be well-informed (a detailed report of the study's results)
    • Join a webinar about the study (a two-hour webinar about the study, followed by a group discussion)
    > 17 Co-financiers

  • Contributing £ 191

    Participate in Ally Skills Training

    Our friends of Open Life Science are organizing an Ally Skills Training on Friday, 11 June 2021 from 15:00 – 18:00 CEST. This rewards gives you one of the free spots to learn and train how you can use your societal advantages to support others in your workplace and communities.

    ALSO:

    • Be acknowledged as a supporter (optional acknowledgement in publications)
    • Be well-informed (a deailed report of the study's results)
    • An ebook of poetry (a collection of french poems about transidentity)
    > 00 Co-financiers

  • Contributing £ 208

    (e-)meet the team

    You get to spend an hour with our team, the ideal chance to learn how the study is progressing, what the current results are and ask any science questions you might have. This will most likely be done virtually via your favorite online video conferencing system. If you happen to be in the Paris region and the COVID-19 situation is such that it allows group meetings it can also happen in person!

    We will also mail you the sticker, the pin and a physical copy of the book (see above)

    ALSO:

    • Get a pin! (a transbiome pin)
    • Get a sticker! (a transbiome sticker)
    • Be acknowledged as a supporter (optional acknowledgement in publications)
    • Be well-informed (a detailed report of the study's results)
    • Join a webinar about the study (a two-hour webinar about the study, followed by a group discussion)
    • A physical book of poetry (a collection of french poems about transidentity)
    > 02 Co-financiers
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Thank you all so much! Now it's for the optimum!

05 | 03 | 2021

Thank you! 💖

We are just astonished and amazed by all the support we have been getting from you! 😍 Thanks to over 100 contributors we made it to our minimum funding goal in just a bit over a week! 🎉 We wanted to thank you all so much for your contributions – financial, moral and by spreading the words with your friends and networks – without all of your support this would not have been possible! 👏🏳️‍🌈

What now? 🤔

Reaching the minimum funding goal already allows us to go ahead with this study on the smallest possible level: Right now we can start working with 20 participants as we can now afford to process this number of samples.

But, while looking at 20 different neo-vaginal samples isn't bad for pilot study like ours, we hope to be able to work with even more participants: First of all, this would allow us to get a more diverse sample – something that's particularly important because of the large number of different techniques used for gender-affirmation surgeries. Secondly, the community feedback has shown us that there's a real interest and need to go into more detail. Indeed, in the last week alone nearly 30 people reached out to work with us!

Help us get to the optimum 📈🙏

We already got the ethical approval and basic materials that are needed to scale up our study to up to 50 participants. But as processing the microbial samples for each participant isn't cheap, we need your help: The sample processing step includes a) extracting the microbial DNA b) preparing it for sequencing and c) the actual sequencing step. The cost for this processing is around 140€ per participant.

Please, continue to spread the word and contribute to our work – so that we can collectively make an even bigger impact! 💪🏳️‍🌈💪

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