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Attributions

iGEM competition takes a lot of effort and hardwork to participate in. According to these circumstances, our team is sure that without some people Vilnius iGEM team would have been impossible. In a week or two here you will see is a list of the people that we are very grateful to.

Project support and advices for team establishment were received from many people, including academic society and political figures.

We are giving our sincere thank you to prof. Eugenijus Butkus (a prorector of Vilnius University), the dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences prof. Osvaldas Rukšėnas and a vice dean assoc. prof. Jurga Turcinavičienė, the founder of “We love Lithuania” campaign Simonas Rudaminas, “Enterprise Lithuania” and, of course, the principal investigator prof. Virginijus Šikšnys. Even Gediminas Miškinis, a chancellor of the Ministry of Economy, expressed a great support for us and gave some advices.

For every kind of advices we are saying a Thank You to a mathematician Irus Grinis, the bioinformatics team at the Institute of Biotechnology (dr. Visvaldas Kairys and dr. Darius Kazlauskas). The great project manager at the Enterprise Lithuania – Raminta Kaleinikaitė and a trainee Sonata Brokevičiūtė. We would be still searching a place to live and some other headaches will still be, if not Romena Savickienė. With a help of her, the embassy of Lithuania in the USA (Justina Krutulytė) and the worldwide society of lithuanians (Dalia Shilas and Dalia Henke) we found home to live during the conference. Big thanks also go to "Baltic Clippers" tourism and travel company and especially Tatjana Pavlova, who helped us to catch the best flight offers. We want to thank Association of Lithuanian Natural Sciences Olympiad, together with Vilius Malūnavičius and Rūta Leinartaitė for helping us out with the technical paperwork.

To achieve the required funds would be even much harder without Enterprise Lithuania advices and financial support from our prime sponsors “Thermofisher Scientific” in a friendly communication of dr. Egidijus Jaseliūnas, as well as “Neurotechnology” with a well-organized sponsorship by Algimantas Malickas and Irmantas Naujikas. Moreover, we were not only generally supported by Vilnius University. They also helped us at the very beginning to pay the team registration fee.

Not only huge companies can help you with the fundraising – the greatest and the warmest person we met is Alina Bezuglova and her teammate Aurelija Degulytė. Our first meeting would have been impossible without a help from Vytautas Bivainis and Vytautas Kalinauskas. Some insights were shared by Rūta Kruliauskaitė, who did a probably the most succeeded crowdfunding campaign for her studies at New York City.

During the hard days in the lab we are grateful for having an opportunity to seek for advices from our P.I. prof. Virginijus Šikšnys, prof. Rolandas Meškys, dr. Giedrius Gasiūnas, PhD. Justas Lazutka, dr. Tomas Šinkūnas and PhD. Inga Songailienė. The InterLab Measurement project would have been be much harder without the advices from prof. Edita Sužiedėlienė and Julita Armalytė. Big thanks go to PhD. Inga Songailienė and PhD. Justas Lazutka for sharing laboratory techniques such as Western blot. Interested topics were presented by PhD. Aleksandr Osipenko, PhD. Robertas Galinis and dr. Giedrius Gasiūnas to our team and our guests from danish SDU team. For the quick help with some kit’s and primers we are more than thankful for “Linea libera” with Sigitas Burinskas in front of it, and Lina Piesnienė, who helped with primers from “Nanodiagnostika”.

How to rule the world of society and make us a well-known project? Please seek for an advice at “OMConsulting” and our the best advisor Milda Gaulienė and for the first business card we got – thank you Orijana Mašalė (the owner of "OMConsulting"). All the publications and all the requests for financial support would have been less successful without your help. We are also excited to have "OMConsulting" nearby when the heavy weight of a presentation at Giant Jamboree was placed on Ingrida's and Mykolas's shoulders. After the sneaky preview of presentations we could join a huge events at our friends “LITEXPO” place and in the pleasure of that we can collaborate with the “Baltic Innovative Technology Institute”. Also, the press of Vilnius University was much more than friendly to us, so thank you, Agnė Grinevičiūtė.

To paint the face of our team, after all the team members opinions and some designs by Danielius, we are thankful for the greatest camera-man Evaldas Valaitis (and all the editing work), PhD. Linas Tamošaitis, for our the best painter Monika Jasnauskaitė and Paulius Mielinis for taking the good quality pictures.