Team:UNC-Chapel Hill/Attributions

ATTRIBUTIONS

General Support

We would like to thank our advisors and mentors, Shawn Gomez, Victor Tse Bryan Johnson, and Erin Borchardt, for first providing the opportunity to participate in iGEM. Each contributed to introducing us to iGEM and providing us a structured environment to get the team going.

Project support and advice

The aforementioned advisors also contributed to our brainstorming process. They also helped us trouble shoot problems in lab. For example, helping us come up with a new protocol for assembling our parts together.

Fundraising help and advice

The aforementioned advisors also contributed to our fundraising efforts by (bake sales and in recruiting donations).

Lab support

The aforementioned advisors helped trouble shoot problems in lab. Also, a special thanks to Dr. Shawn Gomez and the whole Biomedical Engineering department at Chapel Hill for providing our team with our own lab space in MacNider Hall at UNC.

Also would like to thank IDT for synthesizing and sequencing our DNA.

Presentation coaching

The aforementioned advisors also helped us prepare for our presentation by watching and critiquing our power point.

Human Practices support

We would like to thank Al Stanback Middle School for allowing us to have a lesson on various science topics.

We would also like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Zhang for donating a video camera so that we could record our protocol videos.

Additional Thanks and Acknowledgements

Lastly, we would like to thank Dan Boughton for managing our finances and to our biggest financial sponsor, Monsanto.