Team:Pitt/Attributions

2015 Pitt iGEM Acknowledgements

All laboratory experiments, data collection, and analysis was carried out by undergraduate student team members.

Dr. Jason Lohmueller

  • Provided the team with project support and advice
  • Taught the majority of the lab techniques used during the course of the competition, as well as provided advice on the remaining techniques
  • Helped bring iGEM to Pitt!
The Pitt 2015 iGEM team would like to extend special thanks to Dr. Jason Lohmueller for his continuous help regarding all aspects of the project!

Dr. Alex Deiters

  • Provided advice at all stages of the project
  • Contributed useful feedback and critique of data collection
  • Aided with obtaining supplies and chemicals from commercial sources
  • Supplied numerous chemicals and supplies on short notice

Dr. Hanna Salman

  • Generously provided lab space
  • Provided supplies and chemicals
  • Aided with lab equipment usage

Dr. Sanjeev Shroff

  • Gathered funding from various university sources
  • Took care of logistics of forming a university team
  • Provided generous funding from the Bioengineering Department at the Swanson School of Engineering

DNA donations

  • Dr. Cheryl Telmer
  • The iGEM repository
  • Integrated DNA Technologies
  • Special thanks to Keith Pardee and the Collins Lab at MIT for supplying many plasmids from the paper which inspired our work!

Thanks and acknowledgements for all other people involved in helping make a successful iGEM team!

  • Ms. Alicia Kemp
  • Dr. Cheryl Telmer
  • Brian Lupish
  • Tatyana Yatsenko

Generous funding from

  • University of Pittsburgh's Office of the Provost
  • The Swanson School of Engineering
  • The Department of Bioengineering
  • The Department of the Biological Sciences
  • The Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
  • The Department of Chemistry
  • The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering