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	ATTRIBUTIONS

We would like to thank all these amazing people for helping us on our project and getting this far to make it to Boston!

Project Support

Project Conceptualisation

Our advisors Kyle and Jonny came up with the project idea. One of our team members, Brandon, redirected the project from detecting siderophores to detecting lipocalin.

Kyle Buchan (advisor)
Jonny Coates (advisor)
Brandon Ford (student)

Project Design (Science)

Kyle and Jonny designed the science behind our project. Nick designed the iron experiments and Felix designed the transformation experiments. Both Felix and Magda designed the genetics experiments. Brandon designed and ordered the constructs. Magda, Brandon, Jamie and Oana did the cloning experiments. The Cas plates were done by Magda and Brandon. Jake and Jamie did the iron measurements.

Kyle Buchan (advisor)
Jonny Coates (advisor)
Nick Moody (advisor)
Dr. Felix Weihs (advisor)
Magda Dabrowska (student)
Brandon Ford (student)
Jamie Grimshaw (student)
Oana Pelea (student)
Jake Edmans (student)

Lab Supervision

Our advisors supervised us in the lab.

Jonny Coates (advisor)
Nick Moody (advisor)
Dimitrios Michailidis (advisor)
John Howard (advisor)
Dr. Felix Weihs (advisor)
Kyle Buchan (advisor)
Guilherme Kundlatsch (advisor)
Carlos Luna (advisor)
Dr. Dorian Florescu (advisor)

Lab Space & Consumables

Our advisor Dimitrios managed to procure part of the Perak Teaching Laboratories as our lab space after contacting Professor Goldman, Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Sheffield. The Perak Teaching Laboratories and Professor Simon Foster Lab have provided us with equipment and lab consumables to conduct our experiments. The lab technicians Mel, Anne, Tom, Hannah and Josh helped us with using the equipment. Dr. Mark Thomas' Lab provided advice and a supply of siderophore null bacterial strains for our experiments. The Centre for Chemical Instrumentation and Analytical Services (CCIAS) in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Sheffield provided us with the equipment to make our ICP-AES Measurements.

Dimitrios Michailidis (advisor)
Professor Alastair Goldman
Perak Teaching Laboratories
Professor Simon Foster Lab
Dr. Melanie Stapleton
Anne Holland
Tom Hill
Hannah Kelly
Josh Hooker
Dr. Mark Thomas’ Lab
University of Sheffield, Department of Chemistry - Centre for Chemical Instrumentation and Analytical Services (CCIAS)

Human Practices

Hannah and Wesley did most of the work for Human Practices, with help from James Gratton and Oana Pelea. Our advisor Dimitrios advised us on the direction that Human Practices should take. The rest are a list of people and organisations that we have interviewed as part of our Humans Practices. They include economics, politics and microbiology lecturers from the University of Sheffield as well as patients and panels from the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.

Hannah Macfarlane (student)
Wesley Ho (student)
James Gratton (student)
Oana Pelea (student)
Dimitrios Michailidis (advisor)
Professor Andrew Rycroft
Dr. Sarah Thompson
Dr. Simon Rushton
David Oglesby
Dr. Rodrigo Moreno-Serra
Jolian McHardy
Arne Risa Hole
Professor Aki Tsuchiya
Paul Slater
The Research Advisory Panel for Infectious Diseases(RAPID)
Dr. Dave Partridge
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Professor Milton Wainwright

Device

James Gratton designed and built the electronic device. Saylee and Wai Ching designed, built and tested the microfluidics chips. The Insigneo Institute for in silico medicine allowed us access to the Cellular Mechanics and Microfluidics Lab and provided us with materials and equipment for making the microfluidics chips. Dr. Cecile Perrault gave us permission to use her lab and advised us on the initial ideas for the microfluidics design. Luke Boldock taught us how to manufacture microfluidics chips. Both he and Claudia Wittkowske advised us on the design of the microfluidics chips. Dr Sean R Anderson advised us on the design of the fluorometer and a larger mixing device. Dr. David Chau advised us on the freeze-drying of our bacterial cells. Martyn Aspinall helped with laser cutting a prototype of the device.

James Gratton (student)
Wai Ching Lin (student)
Saylee Jangam (student)
Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine: Cellular Mechanics and Microfluidics Lab
Dr. Cecile Perrault
Luke Boldock
Claudia Wittkowske
Dr. Sean R Anderson
Dr. David Chau
Martyn Aspinall

Modelling

Our advisors Guilherme and Carlos lead modelling and guided us on the objectives of modelling. Wai Ching did most of the modelling, with help from Jamie. The rest of the people listed below have provided general advice with regard to modelling, specifically with regards to modelling the binding reactions.

Carlos Luna (advisor)
Guilherme Kundlatsch (advisor)
Wai Ching Lin (student)
Jamie Grimshaw (student)
Dr. Jeremy Craven
Professor Visakan Kadirkamanathan (supervisor)
Professor Daniel Coca (supervisor)

Wiki

James, our engineer, coded most of the wiki with the guidance of our advisor Carlos. He also designed the artwork for the wiki, with some help from Brandon. All of our team members contributed to the content of the wiki and our advisors Kyle, Jonny, Nick, Dimitrios, John and Felix helped with proofreading and editing the wiki.

James Gratton (student)
Carlos Luna (advisor)
Kyle Buchan (advisor)
Jonny Coates (advisor)
Nick Moody (advisor)
Dimitrios Michailidis (advisor)
John Howard (advisor)
Dr. Felix Weihs (advisor)

Presentation

Brandon, Jamie, James, Wesley and Hannah created our presentation slides. Brandon and Jamie wrote most of the script, with input from Wesley, Hannah and James. Our advisors Kyle, Nick, Jonny, Felix, Dimitrios and John edited our presentation and coached us on our presentation skills. Wesley, Jamie and James presented our project at the Giant Jamboree.

Brandon Ford (student)
Jamie Grimshaw (student)
James Gratton (student)
Wesley Ho (student)
Hannah Macfarlane (student)
Kyle Buchan (advisor)
Nick Moody (advisor)
Jonny Coates (advisor)
Dr. Felix Weihs (advisor)
Dimitrios Michailidis (advisor)
John Howard (advisor)

Poster

Our advisors helped us by coming up with the structure of the poster and reviewing the poster. Our team members Oana, Magda, Wai Ching, Jake, Hannah and Wesley wrote the content of the poster. James did the poster design and Magda and Wai Ching edited the poster.

Jonny Coates (advisor)
John Howard (advisor)
Oana Pelea (student)
Magda Dabrowska (student)
Wai Ching Lin (student)
Jake Edmans (student)
Hannah Macfarlane (student)
Wesley Ho (student)

Organising & Fundraising

Our advisors Dimitrios, Kyle, John, Jonny, Felix and Nick raised the funds for our project. Professor Visakan Kadirkamanthan helped us gain funding support from the engineering faculty and provided funding. Professor Danial Coca helped with the recruitment of engineering students and provided funding. Professor David Hornby gave advice on fundraising, helped with recruiting biology students and provided funding for lab consumables. The rest have supported us in setting up our project and raising funds.

Dimitrios Michailidis (advisor)
Kyle Buchan (advisor)
John Howard (advisor)
Jonny Coates (advisor)
Dr. Felix Weihs (advisor)
Nick Moody (advisor)
Professor Visakan Kadirkamanathan (supervisor)
Professor Daniel Coca (supervisor)
Professor David Hornby (supervisor)
Andrew Landels
Dr. Graham Stafford
Dr. Molyneux-Hodgson

Finance Support

The following people helped us with financial procedures.

James Bollington
Jenny Miller
Rachel Hammond
Sandrine Soubes

Outreach

Wesley and Hannah designed our plans for outreach. The entire team also helped out at iGEM Edu Day and other outreach events. Saylee did most of the marketing for our project, setting up our social media pages. We would also like to thank the following people for liaising with colleges and helping with the organisation of iGEM Edu Day and other outreach events that we did.

Wesley Ho (student)
Hannah Macfarlane (student)
Saylee Jangam (student)
Michael Goodreault
Seetal Jassal
Gemma Greenup

General Support

We would like to thank the following people for helping us by providing general advice on our project.