Team:Brasil-USP/Attributions

Attributions

Team

University of São Paulo

    Our team would like to thank the support of IFSC/USP (Institute of Physics of São Carlos / University of São Paulo) to our project. In addition to providing us the necessary infrastructure for the accomplishment of the project and a great faculty available to our academic counseling, the institute helped us financially - paying for the team registration fee at iGEM 2015, as well as the participation of one of the members at the convention in Boston. A special thank to Prof. Dr. Tito José Bonagamba, the director of the IFSC/USP.
    Additionally, we are grateful for the support of the pro-rectors of graduation and research, Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Hernandes and Prof. Dr. José Eduardo Krieger. Thank you for believing in our team and for supporting the development of innovative projects in Brazil.
    All the experiments were performed on the following laboratories of the University of São Paulo, campus São Carlos:

Laboratory - Supervisor Experiment
Molecular Biophysics Group
Prof. Dr. Ana Paula Ulian Araujo
Experiments of molecular biology
Crystallography Group
Prof. Dr. Richard Charles Garratt and Prof. Dr. Otavio Thiemann
Experiments of molecular biology
Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology Group
Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto
Experiments of flow cytometry and fluorometry
Optics Group
Prof. Dr. Cristina Kurachi
Use of equipment

     Our team sincerely appreciates the availability of the space, equipments, instruments, and reagents that were offered to us to make the experiments possible.

Advisor and Instructor Support

    All research was led by the student members of Brasil-USP 2015 iGEM team. Nevertheless, we had the constant support from our advisor Prof. Dr. Ana Paula Ulian Araújo. We thank her for having intensively participated on the development of the project, attending meetings and providing us her time, despite her busy schedule. She has been crucial to refining our project ideas and solving general issues.
    We also thank our advisor Dr. Juliana Cancino who was essential for the performance of the Flow Cytometry experiments.

Additional Professors and University Staffs

    We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Antônio Burtoloso for discussing and analysing the feasibility of the chemical reactions we proposed to transform the product ODTD into a fuel. His expertise in organic synthesis helped us through challenging steps and guided us to plan and conduct the experiments in a safe and efficient manner. He also offered his laboratory and tools so that the experiments of the ODTD to final product transformation could be performed promptly.
    We thank Prof. Dr. Adriano Delfi Andricopulo for providing funds to buy essential enzymes for our experiments.
   We are also very grateful to USP Innovation Agency for all the explanation about intellectual property formalities and our guidance on entrepreneurship subjects.
  Our team would like to thank very much Mauricio Schiabel, a employee at USP who has assisted us with the financial bureaucracy.

External Support

    We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Dieter Jendrossek from the University Stuttgart (Germany) for having kindly donated us the plasmids with the cloned roxA and lcp sequences , and receiving one of our members at his office in Germany.It is really satisfactory to know that Science has no boundaries, and aid may come from anywhere in the world.

Figure 2: Bruno Ono, a member of our team, and Prof. Dr. Dieter Jendrossek

    In addition, we thank Prof. Dr. Denise Bevilaqua from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP), campus Araraquara for also having kindly donated us strains of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, and for having patiently explained the specific conditions to cultivate them. Such bacteria would be used for the experiments of rubber devulcanization.
    Thank Prof. Dr. Teresa Cristina Zangirolami from Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), campus São Carlos for helping us with the bioreactor informations, as well as bioprocesses and separation procedures. There information were very important to guide us through the scaled up processes.
    We also thank Braskem for helping our team with intellectual property and giving us entrepreneurship advices, but specially Mateus Schreiner Garcez Lopes for opening the gates of the company and believing in us.
    In the Woman in Science survey, we counted with the essential support of Prof. Dr. Marcia Barbosa from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Besides her research in the anomalies the water, she also investigates about gender equality in brazilian science. She is vice-president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Working Group on Women in Physics. In 2013, Marcia was named in L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards Laureate for Latin America. Thank you very much for the participation and for discussing questions that could improve our survey and interviews.
    We sincerely thank everyone who helped in some way our project to be concretized!

People
From
Main Help
Dr. Tito José Bonagamba
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), Institute of Physics
Funding
Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Hernandes
University of São Paulo, (campus São Paulo)
Funding
Prof. Dr. José Eduardo Krieger
University of São Paulo (campus São Paulo)
Funding
Prof. Dr. Antônio Carlos Bender Burtoloso
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), Institute of Chemistry, Organic Synthesis Group
ODTD into final product Transformation
Prof. Dr. Dieter Jendrossek
University Stuttgart, Departament of Microbiology, Germany
Advices and donated us plasmids with the cloned roxA and lcp sequences
Dr. Frank Nelson Crespilho
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), Institute of Chemistry, Bioelectrochemistry and Interfaces Group
Help on finding sponsors
Dr. Richard C. Garratt
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), Institute of Physics, Crystallography Group
Advices about the possibility to create a chimeric protein
Dr. Ricardo De Marco
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), Institute of Physics, Molecular Biophysics Group
Advices about the possibility to create a chimeric protein
Dr. Adriano Delfi Andricopulo
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), Institute of Physics, Crystallography Group
Help on buying enzymes
Prof. Dr. Carla Cristina Schmitt Calheiro
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), Institute of Chemistry, Photochemistry Group
Help with organic chemistry concepts
Mateus Schreiner Garcez Lopes
Braskem, São Paulo
Help with intellectual property, funding and entrepreneurship advices
Otto Heringer
University of São Paulo (campus São Paulo)
Invitation to StartedUSP event and help with funding and contacts
João Vitor Molino
University of São Paulo (campus São Paulo)
Help on DNA sequence alignment test and a 3d model for Camera support.
Prof. Dr. Otavio Thiemann
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), Institute of Physics, Crystallography Group
Provide his laboratory for the performance of experiments
Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), Institute of Physics, Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology Group
Provided his laboratory for performing of experiments
Prof. Dr. Cristina Kurachi
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), Institute of Physics, Crystallography Group
Provided her laboratory for performing of experiments
Dr. Juliana Cancino
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), São Carlos Institute of Physics, Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology Group
Help on the performance of flow cytometry experiments
Prof. Dr. Denise Bevilaqua
State University of São Paulo (UNESP, campus Araraquara)
Donated us strains of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
Prof. Dr. Marcia Barbosa
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Women in Science Survey
PyLadies Group
São Carlos, Brazil
Women in Science Survey
Nathalia Tomazio
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), São Carlos Institute of Physics
Women in Science Survey
Hilde Buzzá
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), São Carlos Institute of Physics
Women in Science Survey
Krissia Zawadzki
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), São Carlos Institute of Physics
Women in Science Survey
Letícia Zago
University of São Paulo (campus São Carlos), São Carlos Institute of Physics
Women in Science Survey


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