Team:UIUC Illinois/Attributions

Attributions

The work on our project was primarily done by our team of ten undergraduates; however, it would never have been possible without our numerous sources of external help.

Advisors

We would like to thank all of our advisors for their endless support in not only scientific knowledge and logistic experience, but also in a great amount of personal time and effort. All of the graduate research student advisors provided direction in protocol design and supervised our lab technique.

Dr. Yong-Su Jin, Associate Professor (Dept. FSHN, UIUC)/ Affiliated Faculty (IGB), oversaw the entirety of the project and provided us precious resources to achieve success.

Todd Freestone, Graduate Research Student (Zhao Lab)

Stephan Lane, Graduate Research Student (Jin Lab)

Jess Beaudoin, Laboratory Manager, organized equipment purchases and oversaw activities to ensure lab safety.

Michelle Goettge, Graduate Research Student (Metcalf Lab)

Erik Andersen, Graduate Research Student (Zhao Lab)

Zach Costliow, Graduate Research Student (Degnan Lab)

Timothy Turner, Graduate Research Student (Jin Lab)

Zhao Lab

We would like to express gratitude and acknowledge attributions to the Zhao lab, for allowing us to use their lab space, and providing help with lab equipment.

Dr. Huimin Zhao, Centennial Endowed Chair Professor (Dept. CHBE, UIUC)

Ran Chao, Graduate Research Student

Mohammad (Sam) Hamedi Rad, Graduate Research Student

Eva Garcia-Ruiz, Postdoctoral Fellow

Synthetic Biology Group, RLE at MIT

We would like to extend the deepest gratitude to Lu lab. Not only did they create the idea used for our project, but they offered us the E. coli strains used in our part development.

Dr. Timothy Lu, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Ky Lowenhaupt, Lab Manager

Fahim Farzadfard, Graduate Research Student


Sponsors

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Department of Bioengineering

Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center

SnapGene

Integrated DNA Technologies

Finally, we would like to thank everyone who helped the UIUC_Illinois IGEM team. This summer was full of synthetic biology experience and collaboration with leaders of the field.