The 2014 BYU Provo iGEM team is made up of 11 students.

All were involved in planning, organization, and the implementation of our research for our project.

We would like to thank the following groups and individuals...

General Support:

Dr. Julianne Grose for offering mentoring, advice, and making iGEM possible for us

Desi DeMille, who helped us with day-to-day lab questions and techniques, as well as keeping track of our work

Skip Price, for bringing his technical expertise and knowledge to the team

Project Support:

For helping fund our project:

Brigham Young University Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology

Brigham Young University Department of Neuroscience

Brigham Young University Department of Chemical Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology

The BYU Center for Teaching and Learning which provided a generous grant to help cover our lab expenses

Auxotrophy:

Dr. Bill McCleary for advice on optimizing the SOE-ing PCR for serine auxotrophy

Biofilm:

Ananda Shankar Bhattacharjee with the Goel Lab at the University of Utah, who provided us with the N. multiformis chassis for our project

The Silver Creek Water Reclamation Facility for providing us with samples of their biofilm, as well as demonstrating the process of water reclamation

CRISPR:

Rodolphe Barrangou Lab at the Universite Catholique De Louvain, which provided us with S. thermophilus LMD-s sample from which we obtained the CRISPR

Metabolism:

Dr. Stephen Lory from Harvard University for providing us with P. aeruginosa PAO1 stock

Dr. Herb E. Schellhorn at McCaster University for providing denitrifying E. coli

Volker Morath for sending erythromycin plasmids when we were in desperate need

Wiki support:

A huge thank you to Jordan Berg, Jared McOmber, and Cameron Sargent for helping the rest of the computer-illiterate team to make our wiki work!