Team:EPF Lausanne/Attributions
From 2014.igem.org
Acknowledgements
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General support
Mrs Marie-France Radigois helped us with the administrative part of the project.
Mr André Pexieder is letting us use his beloved lab for our project.
Mrs Celia Lutherbacher helped us with the documentation.
Laboratory techniques
Mr Arne Seitz and Mr José Artacho taught us how to use the microscopes at EPFL's Bioimaging and Optics Facility
Mr Marc Chambon taught us how to use the plate readers at EPFL's Biomolecular Screening Facility.
Mr Julien Dorsaz and Mr Kaspar Suter trained us on the different clean room processes we needed to know to make the masks and wafers for our microfluidic chips. You can find more information on EPFL's center of micronanotechnology here.
Ms Luisa Spisak from EPFL 2013 team helped us starting the project by showing us basic lab techniques.
Collaboration
Professor Stephen Michnick and Jacqueline Kowarzyk sent us their split IFP plasmids, which we extensively used to test CpxR dimerization.
Professor Waldor sent us his renilla luciferase plasmids with CheY/CheZ, which helped us test the luminescence.
Human practices support
Mr Yann Heurtaux, Mr Clément Epié, and Mr Nicolas Loubet, are co-founders of biohackerspaces in France and Switzerland. They sought us out and came to visit, leading to presentations about iGEM and our project at the Hackuarium in Lausanne.
Mr Fabien Goubet is a journalist for "Le Temps" newspaper. He came to visit us at EPFL and wrote an article about our project.
Mr Yves Deluz, general director of the highschools from Canton de Vaud, sent us 4 classes of high school students for a day of discovery of synthetic biology at EPFL.
Mrs Françoise Bezençon, Mr Fabio Moriggia, Mr Jean-Pierre Lardet and Mr Nabil Mastour, highschool biology teachers, collaborated with us and came with their students for the visit at EPFL.