Team:British Columbia/Sponsors

UBC iGEM 2015

 

Attributions

 

Modelling

Kevin Ng, Jacqueline Siu, Jacky Chan, and Mike VanInsberghe

Growth

Jewel Ocampo, Darren Christy, Yuqing Du, Jeanne Chan, Kateryna Ievdokymenko, and Meghan Verstraete

Special thanks to the Fernandez lab for the PBBR1MCS-2 plasmid, the Davies lab for the RP1 plasmid, the Beatty lab for the PIND4 plasmid, the Smit lab for the PBBR3, PBBR4, PKT210, and PRK293 plasmids, and the Hanckock lab for the PBBR1MCS-3, PBBR1MCS-5, and PBSP11Sk- plasmids. Also a very special thanks to Waldan Kwong for generously providing S.alvi and G.apicola.

Screening

Jewel Ocampo, Vivian Li, Darren Christy, and Kateryna Ievdokymenko

Special thanks to the Hallam lab for technical help.

Imidacloprid modification

Nicolas Echeverria, Rohan Chandrasekhar, James Round, Meghan Verstraete, Mike VanInsberghe, and Elesha Hoffarth

Special thanks to Maxim Kolesnikov for assisting in HPLC experiments.

6-CNA degradation

Ishpreet Dhillon, Mila Sempere, James Round, and Mike VanInsberghe.

Policy and practices

Mila Sempere, Kevin Ng, Jewel Ocampo, Vivian Li, Yuqing Du, Jeffrey Pea, Ishpreet Dhillon, Jeanne Chan, and Joe Ho.

Special thanks to Dr. Conor Douglas for advising our policy and practices team, Science World and UBC Farm for providing a venue for our outreach activities, and Heather Amos from UBC news for writing a story for further public outreach. More special thanks to our interviewees: Paul Thiel from Bayer, Tracy Jones from SaskCanola, Kate Harland, Dr. David Charest, and Dr. Ivana Cecic from Genome BC, Dr. Leonard Foster from UBC, Dr. Mark Winston from SFU, Melissa Cartwright from Mellifera bees, Hank Markgraf from BC Tree Fruits, and Waldan Kwong from Yale University.

Fundraising

Rohan Chandrasekhar, Nicolas Echeverria, and Raphael Roccor

Wiki and arts

Yuqing Du, Vivian Li, Jeanne Chan, and James Round

A very special thanks to the Hallam, Murphy, and Eltis labs and Dr.Oliver for providing us with equipment and guidance.