Team:Tokyo Tech/Attribution and Contribution

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Tokyo_Tech

Attribution and Contribution

We could not reach this point without anyone
 
   
Attribution
   

We are proud to say that all the ideas we worked on this year were proposed by undergraduate members of our team Tokyo_Tech 2014. Moreover, the whole experimental data created by our team comes from experiments all carried out by undergraduates. The project "Bank E. coli" was proposed by Naoto Takahashi. Modeling related to this project was done by Takuya Kato and Ye Kai. We want to thank every advisers and instructors who helped us with discussing these ideas and guided us in the experiments.

   
Student team members  
 
All cloning (transformation, culture cells, mini prep):

     - Yuta Kino, Yuya Nakamura, Kohdai Hibi with helping of other team members

 
Parts construction (restriction digest, ligation):

     - Yuta Kino, Yuya Nakamura, Kohdai Hibi

 
AHL-dependent gene expression assay:

    - Shoko Suzuki, Naoto Takahashi, Keina Matsumura

 
Co-culture assay:

    - Yuya Nakamura, Gyomon Ryu

 
Improved rhl promoter assay:

    - Naoto Takahashi, Keina Matsumura, Ayaka Murase

 
Modeling (simulation of the genetic circuit):

     - Takuya Kato, Kai Ye

 
Wiki and slide design:

     - Paniti Achararit, Kai Ye, Riku Shinohara

 
Policy and Practices:

     - Miyabi Hishinuma, Ayaka Murase with helping of other team members

 
Contribution
 
General Support
 
Prof. Kiga let us use his lab for all of our experiments. He also has led many Tokyo Tech teams to the excellent results in iGEM since this competition has started.
Prof. Yamamura and Prof. Konagaya supported us in many ways to give us a better researching environment. 
Prof. Ayukawa supported us in all of our experiments throughout the preparations for iGEM.
Promega KK provided us a part of the restriction enzyme we used without any charge.
 
Instrumental Analysis Support
 
Biomaterial Analysis Center, Technical Department, checked the sequence of the plasmids which we had asked.
 
Policy and Practice Support
 
Tomoya Saito, who is working for National Institute of Public Health, gave us a lecture on dual-use technologies, and gave us useful advice about biosafety.
Hiromichi Ando arranged MUSE TALK and let us present there.
Akihiro Hiyoshi, who is the principal of Ohyamaguchi Elementary School, gave us a chance to communicate with students.
 
Presentation Adviser
 
We would like to thank all the people who came to check our presentations and gave us useful feedbacks:

Professor: Masaaki Wachi, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Masaaki Kotera, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Nobutaka Nakashima, Satoshi Nakamura, Shunichiro Ogura, Hideki Taguchi, Masahiro Takinoue, Toshiaki Fukui, Fumio Arisaka, Yasunori Tanji, Hirokazu Urabe, Hisakazu Mihara, Yasunori Aizawa, Hiroyuki Ohta, Kumiko Sogawa, Masayuki Yamamura,Takao Terano, Robert F. Whitter, Robert Cox

Veteran: Ryota Fujiwara, Toshiki Hashimoto, Taku Nakayama, Nobuaki Yasuo, Shinya Suzuki, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Sara Ogino, Shunta Suzuki