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Attributions
University of York Support
The University of York iGEM team would like to thank and acknowledge the support of the university, as follows:
- The York Annual Fund, the Rapid Response Fund, the Internship Bureau and the Department of Biology for their financial support;
- The teaching labs of the Department of Biology, for providing the space for us to work in over the summer and in September. We thank Jennifer Lee, Nikki Begg and Nicola Charltonfor assistance and guidance with our laboratory work;
- Phil Roberts for advice on graphic design and poster creation;
- Hilary Jones for help with student recruitment and Lorna Warnock for financial advice;
- The Department of Biology as a whole for providing materials and facilities for us.
Instructor Support
All research work was performed by the undergraduate students on our team. Our instructors contributed support and ideas to the students and facilitated a safe and efficient laboratory environment. Special thanks to Dr James Chong, Dr Gavin Thomas, Prof Maggie Smith and Dr James Edwards, whose experience in bacterial work proved very useful for us. We are grateful to them for support in obtaining sponsorship, for helping us obtain all materials needed, for providing chemicals and for technical guidance and scientific advice throughout the project.
Support from Colleagues
We thank our colleague Bruna Cama, for designing and drawing our logo and the iGEM York comic story;
We are very grateful to Oswin Wan for designing our website and to Mantas Markevicius and Paulius Imbrasas for coding the website.
We thank Jamie Birch for technical advice and troubleshooting support.
Support from Additional Professors and University Staff
We would like to acknowledge other professors in the Department of Biology including Dr Sean Sweeney, Dr Setareh Chong, Dr Thorunn Helgason, Dr James Moir, Prof Peter McGlynn, and Dr Jamie Wood from the Department of Biology for interest in our project and advice along the way. Dr Maria Chechik for providing the DNA of Shewanella oneidensis and Dr Marjan van der Woude for the DNA of Salmonella enterica.
Additionally we would like to thank Dr Martin Bees and Viktor Chechik from the Chemistry Department for advice with designing the microbial fuel cell and Sindhu Krishna for providing the gold solution necessary for supplying our system with gold ions.
Outside of University Research and Technical Support
We would like to thank and acknowledge the support of various individuals from other Universities. This includes Dr Chris French (University of Edinburgh) for supplying the DNA for genes encoding the MTR complex; Swati Sureka (Cornell iGEM team 2012) for offering to provide a S. oneidensis strain; Prof Paolo Magni from Universita di Pavia, for offering to provide BioBrick BBa_K300000; Jon Veal (NanoSight) for kindly lending us the equipment required to characterise our gold nano particles; Peter Hong (Waterloo Igem TEAM 2012) for kindly providing parts BBa_K241001 - K241004 and unsubmitted part phiC31 attB CT; Edward Perello (AutoClone) for allowing us to use the beta version of their software.
Outside of University Additional Support
We would like to thank the Microryza team for advice on obtaining funding; Catherine Brophy (STEM) and St Lawrence School for helping us prepare our outreach event and hosting us; St Anne’s Church in York for allowing us to organise an outreach event; Jordan Yaron and Paula Salgado for promotion on social media; Matt Ravenhall for his help with press releases.