Team:Toulouse/Acknowledgements/Attributions

Our team is proud to say that we almost did all the work by ourselves: finding sponsors, making communication tools about our project, finding the protocols to use and test them. However, we needed occasional assistance during our project, therefore we required help from different people: scientists, administrators, specialists and even layperson. We would like to warmly thank all these persons for their contribution and their support. Our project could move forward because they offered their help.

Ulule: a crowdfunding website to help us finding funds

Ulule is the first European crowdfunding website. We have posted our SubtiTree project on this site to collect funds for paying the Giant Jamboree fee. The collect was successful: we had 53 supporters and 1,787€ collected!

We warmly thank all the supporters, it was very encouraging to see that people have mobilized for us! We would like to thank:

Debra Baker, François Barbeau, Valérie Chataigner, Brune Couffignal, Serge Couffignal, Jacques de Grenier, Guillaume Debar, Colas Decloitre, Coline Delabre, Charlene Douard, Laurence Fournié, Rose Fournié, Chrystelle Gaucher, Nicolas Gilet, Aurélie Gosseau, Sarah Guiziou, Carole Jouve, Damien Kanitzer, Pierre Lagoutte, Anne-Marie Lang, Myriam Le Nours, Julie Mabille, Mylène Manière, Eddy Manière, Stéphanie Marty, Nathan Mirassou, Pierre Mirassou, Sophie Molina, Raymond Molina, Eric Molina, Ngoc Thu Hang Pham, Bruno Paci, Frédéric Paletou, Nicolas Perez, Jean Perron, Pierre Pettera, Lucas Picault, Nathalie Pineau, Elodie Prattico, Florence Rigaud, Marianne et Dominique Serres, Gilles Truan, Clémence Witzmann.

Scientists

iGEM instructors

First of all, we warmly thank our amazing instructor: Gilles Truan. He was with us from the beginning to the end and even more! He is the master of cloning. He is the captain of PCR. Moreover, he knows how to grill sausages better than anyone! We kindly thank all the other instructors that helped us when we were lost with the scientific part or stressed by the lack of money. We especially thank Brice Enjalbert, Florence Bordes, Kaymeuang Cam, Philippe Soucaille, Stéphane Guillouet, Isabelle Meynial-Salles and Alain Marty. Your advice and encouragements were very precious to us, and you deserve these thanks for all the energy you spent answering our questions (and we know that we are very energy-consuming!). To finish, a special thanks to Claude Maranges, who helped us a lot with the sponsoring aspect and all the administrative problems that we encountered. Indeed, if you had an administrative issue, he is able to solve it in less than 2 minutes (5 minutes during the holidays)! He knows how to make everything all right in record time.

Bacillus subtilis specialists

Even if Bacillus subtilis is a gram-positive bacterium model, none of our instructors worked on it. It is why we asked other people's help when we had questions about B. subtilis. We would like to thank Nathalie Campo for her advice about B. subtilis culture, her encouragements and her kindness. Her friend Thierry Doan helped us too: he brilliantly answered our questions about B. subtilis. We also thank Sarah Guiziou, ex-iGEMer, for her advice and her protocols

Fungi specialists

We are grateful to Christophe Roux who gave us two non-pathogenic strains of fungi: Aspergillus brasiliensis and Chaetomium globusum. We used them to test our SubtiTree system.

Other iGEM teams

Since several parts that we wanted to use were not in the iGEM kit plates, we asked iGEM teams to send us some parts: - Thanks to the iGEM Warsaw team, especially Radoslaw Stachowiak, for sending us the biobricks BBa_K780000, BBa_K780001,BBa_K780002 and BBa_K780003. - Thanks to the iGEM Utah State team, especially Charles Miller, for sending us the biobrick BBa_K1162001. - Thanks to the iGEM Munich team, especially Jara Radek, for sending us the biobrick BBa_K823021,BBa_K823022 and BBa_K823023.

Lab support

Thanks to Sylvie Cancel and Yves Dutruy, lab technicians, for helping us when we did not know where to find Yeast Extract or how to use the new refrigerated centrifuge. They were with us as soon as we began the manipulations and they answer to all our questions.
To finish, thanks to Fabien Albert, storeman of the LISBP, for his sympathy and his availability.