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From 2013.igem.org

Attributions

• Yagiz Alp Aksoy, gave some great advice and encouragement about starting a new iGEM team at Sydney University, Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University

• Dr Nick Coleman, gave a ‘provisional yes’ to supervise our team 5 minutes after hearing about iGEM for the first time, School of Molecular Bioscience, Sydney University

• Cheers to Kiri, Elissa, Mia, Alice, Jayden, Mai-Anh, et al. who helped our team survive in the Coleman/Holmes/Newsome communal lab space

Financial Support

• Professor Trevor Hambley, Dean of Science, Sydney University
• Professor Robyn Overall, Head of School of Biology, Sydney University
• Professor Iain Campbell, Head of School of Molecular Bioscience, Sydney University
• Professor Chris Murphy, Head of School of Medical Sciences, Sydney University
• Professor Derrick Armstrong, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Education, Sydney University
• Professor Jill Trewhella, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research, Sydney University

Strange Nature

• Rebecca Miller, point of contact to organise sponsorship, judging and possible publication of a winning entries, Executive Sales Manager at IDT
• Tamzin Byrne and Chris Lassig, advice on science communication, Science in Public
• Kel Hardingham, advice on reaching gifted and talented students, educational consultant and retired science teacher

Judges

Craig Cormick, author and science-communication advisor at CSIRO

Nicola Brookman-Amissah, Senior Scientific Writer at IDT

Yagiz Alp Aksoy, PhD candidate at Macquarie University

All the Other Wonderful People

• Elissa Liew isolated and characterised the DCA degrading Xanthobacter EL4
• Jake Munro isolated and cloned the dhlB and dhlA genes from Xanthobacter EL4.
• Deborah Rich confirmed the activity of these cloned genes.
• We got the genes into a pSB1C3 plasmid and expressed them using parts from the iGEM Distribution Kit.

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