Team:ArtCenter MDP/Attributions

From 2014.igem.org

thank you

Big thank you to everyone who contributed to the project! We really appreciate your time, support, over the summer. Thank you Media Design Practices and Art Center College of Design for project funding, studio space, and roof access!

contributors

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Christina Agapakis: Critique, concept reviews, research, support contacts

Jasmin Blasco: Research, brainstorming, concept development, pH testing

Ian Besler: Brainstorming, concept development, pH testing

Aaron Fooshee: Brainstorming, pH testing

Marcus Guttenplan: Brainstorming, concept development, documentation, further concept development and iterations, wiki design, graphics, writing, photo shoots, algae sample collection

Ben Hooker: Critique, concept reviews, research

Kristina Ortega: Research, brainstorming, concept development, running simulations, documentation, further concept development and iterations, graphics, writing, pool ph testing events, photo shoots, concept branding

Jenny Rodenhouse: Research, brainstorming, concept development, running simulations, documentation, scheduling, further concept development and iterations, wiki design, graphics, algae sample collection

Cory Tobin: Advised on sequencing, provided team a synthetic biology 101 course

Kevin Wingate: iGEM main contact, scheduling, funding

Dave Wernick: Advised on future genetically altered biofuel production and lab processes

Xiaochen Yang: brainstorming, concept development, pH testing

Sorry if we forgot something, everyone contributed a lot!

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2. Bernstein, Rachel. "Biotech Offers Promise for Producing Fuel." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 04 Aug. 2010. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. http://articles.latimes.com/print/2010/aug/04/science/la-sci-biofuels-20100805.

3. Craig Venter Creates Synthetic Life Form. Dir. Ian Sample. Craig Venter Creates Synthetic Life Form. The Guardian, 20 May 2010. Web. 11 June 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/may/20/craig-venter-synthetic-life-form.

4. Dicker, Ron. "Now We Know How Many Swimming Pools There Are In L.A." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 19 Dec. 2013. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/19/swimming-pools-la-los-angeles_n_4386306.html.

5. Drew Endy and Stefan Sagmeister, “On Design,” In Science is Culture, ed. Adam Bly, Harper Collins, 2010.

6. Drinkwater, Kelly, Todd Kuiken, Ph.D., Shlomiya Lightfoot, Julie McNamara, and Kenneth Oye, Ph.D. "Creating Research Agenda for Ecological Implications of Synthetic Biology. "Synthetic Biology Project 7 (2014): 1-36. www.synbioproject.org. MIT, 1 May 2014. Web. 03 Aug. 2014. http://web.mit.edu/cis/Publications/SYNBIO_res_agenda.pdf.

7. Emma Marris, Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World, Bloomsbury 2011.

8. Evelyn Fox Keller, Introduction to The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture. Duke University Press 2010.

9. "Experiments in Sound, Soil and Microbial Fuel Cells." Interview by Régine Debatty. We Make Money Not Art. N.p., 20 June 2013. Web. 13 June 2014. http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2013/06/bacteria-battery.php#.VDhJhOeFUz1.

10. "Fueling The Future." Fast Company. N.p., 01 Feb. 2008. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. http://www.fastcompany.com/641142/fueling-future.

11. "Gore Laboratory for Ecological Systems Biology." Gore Laboratory for Ecological Systems Biology. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. http://gorelab.homestead.com/index.html.

12. J. Craig Venter Institute, Press Release “First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacterial Cell.” May 2010.

13. "Jonathan Trent: Energy from Floating Algae Pods." YouTube. TED Talks, 28 Sept. 2012. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-HE4Hfa-OY&feature=youtube_gdata_player.

14. Koert Van Mensvoort, “Real Nature is not Green.” Next Nature Blog, 2006.

15. Lacey, Stephen. "Researchers Genetically Engineer Algae to Increase Oil Yields by Up to 50%: Should We Be Concerned?" Climate Progress. N.p., 28 Nov. 2011. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/11/28/374605/genetically-engineer-algae-to-increase-oil-yields.

16. Langton, Christopher G. Artificial Life: An Overview. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1995. Print.

17. Maron, Dina F. "The Race to Make Fuel Out of Algae Poses Risks as Well as Benefits." The New York Times. The New York Times, 22 July 2010. Web. 19 Sept. 2014.http://www.nytimes. com/cwire/2010/07/22/22climatewire-the-race-to-make-fuel-out-of-algae-poses-ris-80037.html?pagewanted=all.html.
18. McBride Robert C., Lopez Salvador, Meenach Chris, Burnett Mike, Lee Philip A., Nohilly Fiona, and Behnke Craig. Industrial Biotechnology. June 2014, 10(3): 221-227.

19. "Microalgae Cultivation." Wageningen UR. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Facilities/AlgaePARC/Themes/Microalgae-cultivation.html.

20. Morelle, Rebecca. "Bacteria 'can Produce Diesel Fuel'" BBC News. BBC, 22 Apr. 2013. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-22253746.

21. Nature Editorial, “The Unnatural Order of Things,” from the special issue of Nature Nanotechnology on DNA Origami, April 2009.

22. Oron Catts and Gary Cass, “Labs Shut Open: A Biotech Hands-on Workshop for Artists” in Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip, eds. MIT Press, 2008.

23. Pollack, Andrew. "Exploring Algae as Fuel." The New York Times. The New York Times, 25 July 2010. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/business/energy-environment/26algae.html?_r=0.

24. Ray, Thomas S. "An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology: Zen and the Art of Creating Life." Artificial Life 1.1_2 (1993): 179-209. http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu. MIT Press, 21 Oct. 1993. Web. 12 June 2014.

25. Sheehan, John, Terri Dunahay, and John Benemann. A Look Back at the U.S. Department of Energy's Aquatic Species Program: Biodiesel from Algae: Close-out Report. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1998. Web. 07 July 2014. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/fy98/24190.pdf.

26. "Swimming Pool Service Technician Study Guide." Swimming Pool Service Technician's Study Guide (2012): 1-47. Department of Public Health. Los Angeles County, 1 Sept. 2012. Web. 15 Aug. 2014. http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/eh/docs/ep_rw_techstudy.pdf.

27. TED Blog, “De-extinction to save a species: Stewart Brand.”

28. Varnelis, Kazys. The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles. Barcelona: Actar, 2008. Print.