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From 2013.igem.org

Attributions

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The ASU iGEM 2013 project idea, research, and development is the work of ASU iGEM members alone and wet lab research itself was conducted only by the eight students on the team and a high school student volunteer.

Acknowledgements

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We would like to thank the following individuals:

• Dr. Karmella Haynes for providing us guidance and support throughout the whole iGEM process. She generously opened her lab for the iGEM team at the end of the summer and provided access to various equipments such as a thermocycler and centrifuge.
• Dr. David Nielsen for serving as one of the team mentors. Dr. Neilsen gave us feedback on our initial project ideas.
• Dr. Hugh Mason for serving as one of the team mentors and providing us with a dedicated lab space for the summer.
• Dr. Karen Anderson for being a dedicated mentor, giving us a crash course in immunology during our meetings, and for providing lab space for dendritic cell experimentation.
• Dr. Gary Tahmahkera for helping us adjust to the new lab space and providing guidance while using larger equipment.
• Kylie Standage-Beier for providing us with continuous feedback on our projects and helping troubleshoot our experiments. He also generously donated cells, few DNA samples and few reagents.
• Brian Thompson for providing us with feedback on initial project ideas.
• Madeline Sands for providing us with human practices feedback.
• Ting Li for training us on dendritic cell testing.
• Framarz Alam for being a great high school student volunteer and serving as a dedicated research assistant during the summer.
• Malhar Patel for being a great high school student volunteer and serving as a dedicated research assistant during the summer.

In terms of materials, we would like to thank:

• The University of Pennsylvania for providing us with a culture of E. coli Nissle 1917.
• University of Glasgow for providing us with a culture of E. coli Nissle 1917 in Mutaflor tablets.

In terms of funding, we would like to thank:

• Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University
• School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University