Team:BGU ISRAEL/Attributions
Attributions
Making our project, we have come to meet many wonderful people, labs, and organizations from Israel and around the world that assisted us throughout our work in all of its aspects. We would like to thank them for their advice, support and guidance teaching and allowing us to fulfill our ambitions.
Research
Prof. Amir Aharoni and Daniel Dovrat, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Assistance with designing inserts for ethylene glycol and terephthalate, providing a program for kinetic calculations
Prof. Lital Alfonta, Yonatan Chemla, Orr Schlesinger and Dror Aizik Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Project instruction, guidance with terephthalate protocol, Biofuel cells, help with presentation and general help
Dr. Shimon Bershtein, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Assistance with P.putida resistances and genetic engineering.
Dr. Ramon Birnbaum, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel.
Project instruction and lab equipment.
Dr. Idit Dahan, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Project instruction, protein separation and overall lab work
Prof. Itzhak Fishov, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Phase microscopy of Rhodococcus ruber samples and guidance in the in the microbiology aspect of the project.
Dr. Eyal Gur, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,Be'er-Sheva, Israel.
Assistance with Kinetic calculations and providing a biological hood.
Prof. Ariel Kushmaro Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Guidance and instruction in Rhodococcus ruber cultivation
Prof.Alex Sivan, Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Providing the Rhodococcus ruber
Dr. Sarel-Jacob Fleishman, Department of Bimolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science
Providing the PROOS algorithm for creating the LC-Cutinase variants and helping synthesize them.
Prof. Dan Tawfik, Dr. Halim Jubran, Department of Bimolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science
Providing us with the P.putida KT 2440
Prof. Victor deLorenzo, Molecular Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid Spain.
Providing us with the pSEVA plasmids and information regarding genetic engineering of P.putida KT 2440
Administration and Laboratory equipment
Prof. Ohad Medalia, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Laboratory equipment
Dr. Ella Mizrahi-Aviv, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Administration and finance
Ms. Korin Pery, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Laboratory equipment
Dr. Mark Karpasas, Ilse Katz Institute for nanoscale science and technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Mass spectrometry
Dr. Einat Nativ-Roth, Ilse Katz Institute for nanoscale science and technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Scanning electron microscope (SEM)
Entrepreneurship
Mr. Yossi Shavit, Project Manager at the Bengis Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
Fox School of Business, M.B.A Team: Amy Krauss, Christy Sheehan, Catherine Maloney, Pamela Mokodefo.
Assistance with the Business plan
Michael J. Rivera, Ph.D., M.B.A., Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Temple University Fox School of Business.
Former and current iGEM teams
UC Davis iGEM 2012 team
pelB-LC-Cutinase fusion protein( BBa_K936013)
TU Darmstadt iGEM 2012 team
Terephthalate metabolic pathway
Technion iGEM 2016 team
Designing a receptor for Terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol for chemotaxis mechanism
BGU iGEM 2013 team
Mentoring and the Bacterial self-destruct mechnism
BGU iGEM 2014 team
Mentoring
BGU iGEM 2015 team
Mentoring
General support
President - Prof. Rivka Carmi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva Israel
Rector- Prof.Zvi HaCohen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Prof. Jerry Eichler, Department of Life Sciences Chairperson Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Prof. Smadar Cohen Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Dr. Efrat Foti, Head of the research support laboratories, Ilse Katz Institute for nanoscale science and technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Dr. Emil Ruvinov, Post-doctoral Associate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Osnat Eitan, Director of Publications & Media Relations in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Advertising and video
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University
Faculty of Engineering, Ben-Gurion University
Organizations
The Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Be'er-Sheva Municipality
Aviv Plastics Ltd.
Inno-Negev
Plastic Artists
Washed Ashore organization
Jane Perkins
Pascale Marthine Tayou
Sponsors
Address:
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ben Gurion 1, Beer Sheva 8410501, Israel
Mail: igembgu2016@gmail.com
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