Team:DTU-Denmark/Attributions
Attributions
It should be noted that all laboratory work and presented activities documented on this wiki were performed by our team members and the three high school students unless stated otherwise.
Initial project phase
- Previous year’s iGEM team members Anne Sophie Laerke Hansen, Kristian Barrett and Kristian Jensen joined us during our first meetings, shared their experience and advice, and helped us how to get going with our idea generation by introducing us to brainstorming techniques.
- Faculty members of DTU Systems Biology Professor Morten Sommer, Postdoc Kai Blin, Associate Professor Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen and Assistant Professor Rasmus John Normand Frandsen gave feedback on our initial ideas.
- Professor Jan Madsen from DTU Informatics for advising us early in the project phase and for attending meetings where we discussed the NRPS oligo designer tool.
- Members of Drug Resistance and Community Dynamics research group under Professor Morten Sommer. The group is working on MAGE in E. coli and we received a lot of inspiration and knowledge from the team.
- Fundraiser Johannes Lundin Brockdorff gave feedback on running versions of our fund application drafts.
- Head of Recruitment and Talent Development Malene Bonné Meyer facilitated the contact with the high school students and helped us with managing the budget.
- Anne Degen and Dr. Barbara Di Ventura from Heidelberg. Barbara was so kind to put us in contact with Anne who send us a couple of their BioBricks from 2013 including an optimized synthetic variant of their NRP tagging system.
- The Muchen 2012 team for their well-documented work through good protocols.
- Deputy Head of Department, Head of Section Jan Madsen was a part of the brainstorm session and helping with questions concerning computing possibilities. He facilitated also our collaboration with Linas Kaminskas.
Human practice and BioBrick tutorial
- Laborant Regina Schürmann kindly provided us laboratory facilities during the BioBrick workshop.
- Kristian Davidsen was a great help during the BioBrick tutorial, helping both in the lab and answering questions concerning the tutorial.
- Head of Communications Mette Haagen Marcussen introduced different communication channels and helped us to define a strategy for streamlining our outreach intiatives as well as choosing our target group.
- Assistant Professor Martin Mose Bentzen adviced in the assessment of ethics considerations in the content of our project.
- A special thanks to Pablo Cuesta who participated actively as a member of the team until August. He contributed with the initial project phase and initiated the public outreach.
Laboratory support
- Laboratory technician Marzanna Pulka-Amin introduced us to the laboratory equipment.
- DTU Metabolomics Platform Group and Associate Professor Kristian Fog Nielsen allowed us to use their equipment for detection of compounds and for providing us with a tyrocidine standard.
- PhD student Anne-Mette Meisner Hviid and PhD student Anne Egholm Pedersen were a great help during the entire lab work, by providing protocols, materials and advice.
- Postdoc Christopher Phippen taught us how to extract our compounds from cells and introducted us in using HPLC/MS and MALDI-TOF. He also ran a lot of the samples and helped with data analysis.
- PhD student Zacharias Brimnes Visby Damholt helped us in running a SDS-PAGE.
- Charlotte Andersen, Noor Alwan and Simran Sidhu from Roskilde tekniske Gymnasium who helped with a part of the outreach targeting towards highschool students.
Bioinformatics and software
- Postdoc Kai Blin helped us tremendously in improvment of our idea in the initial project phase. He suggested us to use Bacillus subtilis as a chassis and he was very helpful in answering to any question we had about NRPS modelling and antiSMASH.
- Linas Kaminskas joined the team for a period to develop a NRPS oligo designer tool for recombineering. Unfortunately, the tool did not end up functioning.
Lab-on-a-disc concept
BluSense Diagnostics provided us knowledge and tools about microfluidics and use of rotation disc technology. - Postdoc Filippo Bosco and Postdoc Rober Burger who facilitated our collaboration.
- Postdoc Marco Donolato who gave us an introduction into cell lysis on rotor discs and suggested method to detect cell lysis.
- Mattias Parmvi who incredibly helped and supervised within cell lysis assays, as well as in understanding, data analysis and discussion of plenty of results.
- Michael Creagh who introduced and explained manufacturing and a concept of microflow on discs.
Art and Design
- Mads Møller Madsen from PF foto who took pictures of our team.
- M.Sc.Eng Michael Schantz Klausen who helped with pictures for our wiki.
- Hero image source: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=31542&picture=microbiology
Sponsors
The Lundbeck Foundation is an active industrial foundation established in 1954. Its main objective is to maintain and expand the activities of the Lundbeck Group, and to provide funding for scientific research of the highest quality.
Otto Mønsted Fund's main objective is to contribute to the development of Danish trade and industry. Within this overall framework, the Board has established detailed guidelines on funding for research and educational purposes within the technical scientific and commercial disciplines.
The Novo Nordisk Foundation is an independent Danish foundation with corporate interests. The objective of the Novo Nordisk Foundation is twofold: To provide a stable basis for the commercial and research activities conducted by the companies within the Novo Group and to support scientific and humanitarian purposes.
VWR supports its customers through a combination of product choices, operational excellence and differentiated services to improve its customers' productivity from research to production. For DTU iGEM 2015 they made a difference.
Frisenette is a Danish company which manufactures and markets we filters, filtration equipment, and glass and plastic consumables for laboratories. DTU iGEM 2015 highly recommend their products.
In Vitro's biggest ambition is to contribute locally, by creating a company in development that creates jobs, and the job, the environment and good customer experience is in focus. In Vitro helped our team with consumables and we can only recommend their service.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science. Their mission is to enable their customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We are greatful for their contribution to our team.
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With a corporate slogan 'Humanizing Genomics' Macrogens vision is to become the "Leader of Asian Biotech industry" with new medicine development capabilities based on ethnic group-specific "medical treatment/gene information integrated content. Thank you Macrogen for your contribution!
SnapGene offers the fastest and easiest way to plan, visualize, and document molecular biology procedures. SnapGene has been an essential tool for the DTU iGEM 2015 team! "With the use of the SnapGene tools our work has been remarkable easier with its great features." Victor DTU iGEM 2015.
Founded in the mid-1970s as a collective of scientists committed to developing innovative products for the life sciences industry, New England Biolabs is now a recognized world leader in the discovery, development and commercialization of recombinant and native enzymes for genomic research.