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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, Sam, et al. who helped our team survive in the Coleman/Holmes/Newsome communal lab space

Our research was impossible without:

• Elissa Liew, who isolated and characterised the DCA degrading Xanthobacter EL4
• Jake Munro, who isolated and cloned the dhlB and dhlA genes from Xanthobacter EL4.
• Deborah Rich, who confirmed these could be expressed as expected in E. coli.

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

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

With thanks to: