Acknowledgement

This is the first time for City University of Hong Kong to participate in the iGEM competition. Therefore any form of assistance meant a lot for the team. Hereby, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the following parties for their generous support!

Financial support

Office of Provost, College of Science and Engineering, Dept. of Biology and Chemistry and Dept. of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, for funding registration and travel expenses.

Dr. Richard Y C KONG, for purchasing and providing all the materials and equipment for the entire project.

Material sponsorship

Invitrogen, for providing two Pure Link(R) Quick Plasmid Miniprep Kits for free.

New England Biolabs, for providing one BioBrick Assembly Kit for free.

Integrated DNA Technologies, for taking 25% off for one Oligo purchase.

Technical support

Dr. Richard Y C KONG, Dr David S. K. Chiu, Dr Terrence C. K. Lau,for guiding the team throughout the whole project.

Mr. LEUNG Tin Lung and Mr. CHEUNG Kwok Ming, for providing the team with useful and invaluable background knowledge in molecular biology.

Mr. Ying Kwong Ho and Miss So Pui Yu, for monitoring and technical advice on the experimental procedures.

Miss Alice K.Y. Chan, for her assistance in the use of GC-MS.

Professor CHAN Ting Fung (CUHK), for the introductory talk on iGEM and details about the iGEM competition.

Dr. Zhu Yuan (Dept. of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong), for helping and supervising our team on simulation for the collaboration with CUHK iGEM team.

Ms. Yu Wai Ping ( Strewards MKMCF Ma Ko Pan Memorial College), for helping our team organize the talk on human practice in her college.