Transbiome

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Finished 16 / 05 / 2021
Funded!
Received
$ 9,549
Minimum
$ 4,558
Optimum
$ 9,310
214 Backers
  • Contributing $ 5

    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 Backers
  • Contributing $ 11

    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 Backers
  • Contributing $ 16

    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 Backers
  • Contributing $ 32

    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 Backers
  • Contributing $ 43

    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 Backers
  • Contributing $ 65

    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 Backers
  • Contributing $ 97

    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 Backers
  • Contributing $ 249

    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 Backers
  • Contributing $ 270

    (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 Backers

30 more hours to go!

14 | 05 | 2021

We have made it to our optimum funding goal with just 30 hours left in the campaign. This would have not been possible without all of your amazing support 🎉 Over 200 of you have contributed to the campaign and we can't express enough how grateful we are for each contribution and all the moral support we have gotten from you. 🙏 And we want to invite you to help us do a last push to distribute the Transbiome crowdfunding campaign and the study itself. 📣

Why another last-minute push?

While we have reached our optimum funding goal, it turns out that we were a bit too optimistic when planning the budget: We had calculated our initial budget with the assumption that every microbiome sampling kit we send out would result in a sample being returned to us. But of course that's not actually the case for a variety of reasons. For example, some folks get sick and had antibiotics treatments against infections and can participate; the post sometimes misplaces letters and sometimes people just don't find the time to send back their samples.

This means we need to order more sampling kits to actually get to the 50 samples we had planned. Given the current return rate, we are ordering another 50 sampling kits for around 540 € to make it to the goal of 50 actually collected samples.

So please, help us spread the world during this last day! 📣📣📣

Where is Transbiome right now?

  • 50 trans women have already registered their interest in participating in our study ✍️
  • We have already sent out 45 sampling kits to participants 📤
  • 23 of these samples have already been collecteed and arrived back at our office 📥
  • 13 samples have already arrived at the sequencing facility, so very soon we should get the first microbiome data 🧬

What are the next steps for Transbiome?

  • We are ordering more sample collection kits 📦
  • We are still looking for more participants to achieve the limit of 50 collected samples 🕵️‍♀️
  • As soon as the additional collection kits arrive we will send them out! 📤
  • And of course, as soon as the campaign ends and we have the final numbers we will prepare shipping out all the swag (stickers, pins, books)! 📦

Once again: Thank you so much for all of your help and support during the last weeks! 💖

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