Team:TU Delft-Leiden/Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

For the completion of this project have contributed many people. With this occasion, our iGEM team would like to address our sincere appreciations to all the people that manifested support and guidance during the development of our project:

Our advisors

• Dr. Anne Meyer
• Dr. Timon Idema
• ing. Esengül Yildirim
• Jorine Eeftens MSc.
• Dominik Schmieden MSc.

Academic instructors

• Dr. Dennis Claessen
• Dr. Manuel Mazo
• Calin Plesa MSc.

For their constructive feedback and their continuous mentorship and patience

Department of biotechnology

Our iGEM team is kindly hosted inside the department of biotechnology. Also, several members of this department helped in reaching the end goal of our project.

• Prof.dr. Gijs Kuenen for providing us with the theoretical aspects of carbon metabolism
• Prof.dr. Fred Hagen for guiding us in setting up the potentiostat
• Dr. Linda Otten for her help and training on the plate reader machine
• Mrs. Elena Kulevic for helping us with taking care of the administrative procedures for funding and creating invoices
• Dr. Rosario Medici for her valuable advice concerning the plate reader machine and for the advice regarding paper microfluidics

Bionanoscience department

• Mr. Daniel Lam provided us with microscope training and helped us manipulating the FACS machine
• Núria Taberner Carretero for tutoring us on how to use the Confocal Microscope and advising on the sample preparation
• Nadine Bongaerts, master student and former iGEM team member, for providing us tips and tricks on how to conduct our fundraising and PR campaign to gain media attention
• Maithili Krishnan, master student and former iGEM team member for providing the team with the mKate2 gene, as well as for helping us to find samples from last year that were requested by other iGEM teams
• Bharath Kumar, former iGEM team member for helping us to find samples from last year that were requested by other iGEM teams.
• Victor Marin Lizarraga for teaching us how to make microfluidic devices, helping us out with equipment and making some microfluidics masters for us
• Dr. Yaron Caspi for helpful discussions about microfluidics
• Sriram Krishnan for providing some microfluidics masters, instructing us how to use them and helping out when problems came up
• Ilja Westerlaken for helping us using the plate reader
• Michela de Martino for helping us with the widefield fluorescence microscope
• Marc Zuiddam for the production of golden electrodes on a silicone wafer that were to be used for curli resistance measurements
• Erwin van Rijn for providing help with the FACS machine.
• Sriram Tiruvadi Krishnan for supplying molds for the Mother Machine device, and advice in fabricating and using the Mother Machine
• Victor Marin Lizarraga for help and advice in designing and fabricating microfluidic devices
• ing. Roel Mattern for a fascinating tour of the Kavli nanolab cleanroom, and the kind donation of SU-8 photoresist, used in the paper microfluidics

ChemE department

• Prof. Dr. Ernst J. R. Sudhölter

3mE

• Mr. Jos van Driel, tehnical specialist helped us with setting the device for the curli resistance measurements and borrowed us a desktop that accepts the PXI system

Leiden University

• Dr. Sylvestre Bonnet, assistant professor (tenure track) for giving us knowledge on metals and diversity of aspects of redox reactions

Rotterdam University

• Dr. Ing. E. Kamst

Experts

• Mr. Jos van Winsen, chairman of the Safety committee of Applied Sciences Faculty of Delft University of Technology for raising awareness among students on the possible risks that the project could represent and for making sure that the proper health measurements would be undertaken.
• Dr Maarten van Brussel of DropSens For kindly loaning the DropSens potentiostat, and the generous donation of screen printed electrodes.
• Jack Taylor of Chemviron for the kind donation of carbon cloth, used in the bioreactor

External laboratories

• Dr. Caroline Ajo-Franklin and Dr. Behzad Rad from Ajo-Franklin Research Group, part of the Molecular Foundry (Berkeley Lab) for providing us with essential DNA material for the constructs of the EET module.
• Prof. Shimshon Belkin and Dr. Sharon Yagur-Kroll of the Institute of Life Sciences of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for providing us with essential DNA material for the constructs of the Landmine Detection module.
• Dr. Matthew Chapman from the Chapman Lab at the University of Michigan for providing us with the ΔCsgB strain.

TU Delft Valorisation Centre

• Susanne Sleenhoff -Project coördinator DIG-it for inviting us to the TU Delft Research Exhibition.
• Stephan Timmers for designing a cartoon with our project for DIG-IT event

Policy&Practices

All stakeholders and everyone that helped us see our project from different perspectives.

• Mr. van der Burg, BioDetection Systems.
• Mr. Horst Lenz, Kampfmittelräumdienst Rheinland-Pfalz.
• Luitenant Kolonel Bergman, EODD.
• Suzanne Oosterwijk, PAX.
• Korienke Smit, Jaco Westra, and all attendants of the meeting, RIVM.
• Mr. Justin Brady, NPA.
• Prof.dr. ir. Ibo van de Poel

Our sponsors

For their financial support