From 2014.igem.org
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:
The College of Life Sciences including the Department of Molecular and Microbiology, the Department of Neuroscience, as well as the College of Chemical Engineering for helping to fund our project
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 streptococcus thermophilus LMD-s sample we obtained the CRISPR from
Metabolism
Dr. Stephen Lory from Harvard University for providing us with pseudomonas aeruginosa strain
Dr. Herb E. Schellhorn at McCaster University for providing denitrifying E. coli
Volker Morath for sending erythromycin plasmids
Wiki support
A huge thank you to Jordan Berg and Jared McOmber for helping the rest of the computer-illiterate team to make our wiki work
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