Team:British Columbia/Sponsors

Attributions

The role of each team member of the 2011 UBC iGEM team is described on this page under our individual profiles on our team page. Our team has worked diligently on not only wet lab, modeling and outreach components of the project, but also on seeking out funding and other resources for our research.

We are exceedingly grateful to our faculty advisors who have provided us with valuable guidance and insight. Members of the labs of Phil Hieter, Joerg Bohlmann, Brian Ellis and Leonard Foster have also helped to mentor the team, guide them through protocols and provide important resources for our experiments.

For our wet lab work, we thank Chris Keeling who not only provided us with the original monoterpene synthase genes but has also been very dedicated in teaching us how to assay monoterpene synthesis.

In addition, we would like to acknowledge that our GC-MS data was generated by Lina Madilao from the Wine Research Centre, who was patient and kind in guiding several team members through the data analysis.

Human Practices Collaborators

Dr. Catherine Anderson from The Future Science Leaders program at Science World for allowing us to present to the bright young students and share our passion for Science with them.

We would like to thank the following distinguished experts for participating in our interview on the topic of releasing synthetic organisms into the wild:

As a distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Microbiology and Immunology department at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Julian Davies has led an amazing career and shares his experiences in biotech and vaccine research with us.

Dr. Andre Marziali's Applied Biophysics Lab performs research to develop new technologies for genomics and life sciences. The research group is engaged in a range of activities from engineering design of novel instruments for BC genomics groups, to development of automation for tissue microarray analysis, rapid genotyping, single molecule analysis methods using nanopores, and novel electrophoresis technologies.

Sponsors

 

The [http://www.msl.ubc.ca/ Michael Smith Laboratories], particularly the laboratories of Dr. Brian Ellis and Dr. Joerg Bohlmann who hosted us in their shared laboratory space for this summer.

The [http://www.bioteach.ubc.ca Education Facilities at the Michael Smith Laboratories] who provided us with our laboratory materials & supplies and who hosted a training workshop for our iGEM team.

The [http://www.chbe.ubc.ca/prospective_students/index.php UBC Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering ] who supported our team fees for the iGEM competition registration.

Support for UBC students through the [http://tlef.ubc.ca/ Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund] as well as from the [http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/home.shtml Service Canada] program.

The [http://www.botany.ubc.ca/index.php Department of Botany] and the [http://science.ubc.ca/ Office of the Dean in the Faculty of Science] who supported our travel to the iGEM Jamborees.

Dr. Antonios Makris from the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania's [http://www.maich.gr/p/programmes/np Department of Natural Products and Biotechnology] in Greece, who provided us with the IDI1 and HMG2 (K6R) metabolic genes and related genetic constructs.

Dr. Marc Fischer from the Agron National Institute of Research at the [http://www.unistra.fr/index.php?id=unistra_en University of Strasbourg], in France, who provided us with the erg20 and erg20-2 metabolic genes.

Dr. Jerry Maedel from [http://www.forestry.ubc.ca/ UBC Forestry] and Adrian Walton from the [http://www.gov.bc.ca/for/ BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations] for directing us to the sources of the MPB distribution data.