Acknowledgments

• Noreen Casey and Jenny Duane, Technical staff in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork. - Provided training in biochemistry and molecular biology techniques throughout the summer.
• Cabrillo Marine Aquarium San Pedro, CA 90731, USA - Procuring and providing us with natural hagfish slime.
• Dr. Patrick Harrison, Dept of Physiology, University College Cork - Advice on SeeDNA project.
• Dr. Justin McCarthy, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork - Advice on fundraising (among other things)
• Dr. Maryanne Donovan and Dr. Tanya Mulcahy - Assistance and advice with shooting a video pitch. .
• Prof. David Sheehan, Head of School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork. - Generous provision of lab space and technical support, as well as help with raising funds.
• Dr. Douglas Fudge, Dept of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Canada - For sharing unpublished data on attempts to produce hagfish intermediate filament genes in bacteria. Also for publishing many studies on which we have based our SeaDNA project.
• Daniel James, Genetics program, University College Cork. - Optimization experiments for SeeDNA.
• Professor Mick Morris and Doctor Eoin Flynn, Materials Department University College Cork. - Advice on polymerization of components and production of IF threads, membranes and meshes.
• Jacob Schiach, Bill Liao plus all the mentors and other teams participants in the inaugural Synbioaxlr8r program at University College Cork. - Business advice and mentorship, plus some choice euphemisms.
• Patrick Breen and Brendan O’Leary - For helping us make the videos needed to get funding and recording our business plan.
• Mary Heapes, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork. - Photography