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Attributions

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Attributions

The lab work throughout the summer was done by the students compromising the iGEM team 2015, however the iGEM team received support from numerous individuals without whom the work would never have successfully been completed. Our team is grateful for the support we received from our instructors and their colleagues which helped us achieve some of goals set at the start of the summer

Instructor Name: Dr. Paul Young

Biochemistry Department, UCC

Instructor Name: Professor Tommie McCarthy

Biochemistry Department, UCC

Team Member Name: Leanne O’Sullivan

  • Researched pathogens that could be detected by the Basehunter System
  • Construction of the various detectors
  • Testing detector sensitivity
  • Primer and oligo design
  • Animation

Team Member Name: Amy Keane

  • Researched pathogens that could be detected by the Basehunter System
  • Testing detector specificity
  • Oligo design
  • Collaboration work

Team Member Name: Aoife O’Brien-Horgan

  • Wiki construction
  • Assist in laboratory work
  • Image design
  • Jumper and shirt design

Team Member Name: Brandon Malone

  • Improving the colour readout of the system
  • Involved in cloning and assembling the detector plus fluorescent proteins
  • Carried out the Interlab Study
  • Research into,design and construction of the mycobacterium detector
  • Research into experiments that would help in determining the mechanisms behind the detector system and carrying out some of these experiments.
  • Experiments in determining whether the detector could be used in a real world application

Team Member Name: Donnchadh O'Sullivan

  • Policies & practice work in Malawi
  • Collaboration work
  • IndieBio outreach

Team Member Name: Timothy O’Flynn

  • Team mentoring & advice

Team Member Name: Shama Chilakwad

  • Team mentoring & advice

Team Member Name: Russel Banta

  • Team mentoring & advice

Acknowledgements:

  • Prof. David Sheehan Head of School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork- Allowing the iGEM team to work in the school of Biochemistry labs throughout the summer.
  • College of medicine & Health- Supported our team financially.
  • College of science, Engineering and food science- supported our team financially.
  • Noreen Casey and Jenny Duane, Technical staff in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork. - Provided training in biochemistry and molecular biology techniques throughout the summer.
  • Eli Lilly.- Generously provided financial support to our team.
  • Janssen- Generously provided financial support to our team.
  • Dr. Justin McCarthy, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork - Advice on fundraising (among other things)
  • Dr. Brigid Lucey, Senior Lecturer in Department of Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology, chair of the research committee for the Academy of Clinical Science and
  • Laboratory Medicine (ACSLM) - advice on the development of the system for clinical use.
  • Daniel James, Genetics program, University College Cork. - Optimization experiments for SeeDNA.
  • Srijita Banerjee (UCC visiting student)- Doing experimentation on using digested genomic DNA as target for Sry Detector.
  • Christopher Harrington, Harrington Construction Ltd. - generously providing funding for travel.