Team:KU Leuven/Attributions

Attributions

On this page, we would like to thank everyone else who contributed to our project.


Wet Lab

Prof. Hideaki Mizuno

Prof. Mizuno shared his knowledge on fluorescent proteins and visualization with us. Thanks a lot!

Vincent Gielen and Sam Duwé

Vincent Gielen and Sam Duwé from Prof. Hofkens' group generously provided us with fluorescein, to generate a standard curve for the interlab measurements.

Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG)

We would like to thank the CMPG lab for their help. Prof. Jan Michiels and Valerie Defraine gave us advice with respect to the AHL detection. Prof. Christine Peeters and Stefanie Roberfroid provided us with the Chromobacterium violaceum (CV026). We also kindly received three knock-outs: Δtar, ΔcheZ and Δtsr from Natalie Verstraeten. Thanks to Prof. Jos Desair and Ami De Weerdt, we were able to do our leucine detection assay using their microplate reader.

Matthijs Cottignie

Our gratitude goes to Matthijs Cottignie for loaning his self-made device to make pictures every five minutes to visualise the motility of our cells, which made it possible to make a time-lapse video.


Dry Lab

Prof. Dirk Roose

Prof. Roose from the Department of Computer Science gave us some advice on coding and math.

Tim Odenthal

We would like to thank Prof. Herman Ramon and Tim Odenthal for their opinion and suggestions on the hybrid model.

Prof. Marc De Maeyer

Prof. Marc De Maeyer helped us to provide access to the supercomputer.

VSCentrum

We thank the Flemish supercomputing centre (VSC)for giving us access to their computing power.

ICTS KU Leuven

The team from the ICTS schooled us on how to use the supercomputing servers.

Prof. Jan Michiels

Our gratitude goes to Prof. Jan Michiels and his research group for modeling advice.

Symposium

Speakers

We would like to thank our home speakers Vera van Noort & Yves Peeters and keynote speakers Victor Dillard & Sebastian Maerkl.

Panel of debate

Thanks to Prof. Bart De Moor, Prof. Johan Robben, Dr. Stijn Bruers, Prof. Vera van Noort, Victor Dillard for giving their grounded opinions during the debate.

Piet Van der Meer

We would like to thank Piet Van der Meer for being the moderator of our debate.

Nina Stoffijn

Gratitude should be expressed for her assistance during the symposium day and for improving the survey.

Contact

Address: Celestijnenlaan 200G room 00.08 - 3001 Heverlee
Telephone: +32(0)16 32 73 19
Email: igem@chem.kuleuven.be