Team:UQ-Australia/Attributions

It should be known that although the team supervisors helped us learn the necessary laboratory skills and practices to be used in this project, all experiments and other work related to the iGEM project (including fundraising, outreach, safety analysis and modelling) were conducted by the students on the UQ Australia team.

We would like to thank the following people for their contributions during our project:

• [http://www.scmb.uq.edu.au/staff/susan-rowland Dr. Susan Rowland] from [http://www.scmb.uq.edu.au/ School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences], [http://uq.edu.au/ The University of Queensland], for sharing her bacterial expertise with us and guiding us with the project. We are also indebted to her for providing us with plasmid vectors pET16.1 and pBAD containing lacI and araC.

• [http://www.qfab.org/about/people Dr. Melissa Davis] from [http://qfab.org/ Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics], [http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/ Institute for Molecular Biosciences], [http://uq.edu.au/ The University of Queensland] for guiding us through the modeling of the system.

• Prof. Alex Ninfa from [http://www.umich.edu/ University of Michigan], for his expert knowledge on oscillatory system and his bacterial strain 3.300L*G. We also thank him for advising us on how to integrate genes into the bacterial chromosome.

• [http://www.molbio1.princeton.edu/cox/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61%3Atom-kuhlman&catid=34%3Acurrent-memebers&Itemid=53 Tom Kuhlman] from the Cox Lab at Princeton University for sharing his knowledge of bacterial chromosome integration and sending us the plasmids pTKRED, pTKIP and pTKS/CS.

• Staff and students of [http://www.uq.edu.au/study/course.html?course_code=PHYS3051 PHYS3051/PHYS7250 Fields in Physics] and [http://www.uq.edu.au/study/course.html?course_code=PHYS3900 PHYS3900/PHYS7900 Perspectives in Physics Research] by the [http://www.smp.uq.edu.au/ School of Mathematics and Physics] at [http://uq.edu.au/ The University of Queensland] for their support and encouragement with the microscopy and synchronisation modelling reviews.

• [http://www.science.uq.edu.au/james-bennett James Bennett] from [http://www.science.uq.edu.au/ Faculty of Science] at [http://uq.edu.au/ The University of Queensland] for his illuminating contribution to the microscopy modelling, which was also for [http://www.uq.edu.au/study/course.html?course_code=PHYS3900 PHYS3900/PHYS7900 Perspectives in Physics Research].

• [http://www.business.uq.edu.au/staff/staff_details?name=tkastelle&action=show_all Dr. Tim Kastelle] from [http://www.business.uq.edu.au/ UQ Business School] and Dr. Sampsung Shi and Prof. Anne Fitzgerald and her lab from [http://www.law.qut.edu.au/ Faculty of Law] from [http://www.qut.edu.au/ Queensland University of Technology] for their advice with the sharing review.

• Randy Rettberg from iGEM for his discussion on patenting and how it relates to the competition and Science in general.