Team:TEC-Costa Rica/Attributions

Team
Attributions

We truly appreciate all the support and advice we received from all the people involved in our project. Below we give special attributions to the ones who guided and assisted us through these months.

David helped us ordering most of our supplies and working on administrative affairs. Also, he reviewed most of our protocols and provided advice on our laboratory techniques. He was extremely helpful in our human practice as a mentor in SynBioThon 2016 and gave us some contacts and advice for fundraising.

Ceballos provided some great advice on designing experiments and on our laboratory techniques. He assisted us in the design of our genetic constructs and provided us with pcr primers and TEV protease. Also, he helped us in our human practice by being a mentor and a judge in SynBioThon 2016.

Silvia offered guidance on our protein procedures and provided us with a protein extraction protocol and some colonies of E.coli BL21. Also, she helped us with our human practice by being a mentor in SynBioThon 2016.

Miguel Rojas as the director of the Biotechnology Investigation Center allowed us to use the laboratories for the development of the project. Also, he provided presentation coaching and contacts for fundraising.

Carlos as the director of the Biology Department of our university he supported our human practice and helped us with administrative procedures.

Garro provided some advice and contacts for fundraising.

Osvaldo from Speratum assisted us with the BioTek Synergy H1 Multi-Mode Reader and helped us in SynBioThon 2016 by being a mentor.

Román from CENAT facilitated us a supercomputer for protein modeling.

Marcela, from La Feria Producciones, recorded and edited our video of our human practice SynBioThon 2016.

Orozco took some incredible pictures of our human practice SynBioThon 2016.

They guided us in our brainstorming.

They assisted us in our human practice as mentors in SynBioThon 2016.

They assisted us in our human practice as judges in SynBioThon 2016.

They assisted us in our human practice as presenters in SynBioThon 2016.

They, from MagGENta BioLabs, helped us in our human practice by sharing their experience of entrepeneurs in SynBioThon 2016.

They helped us divulgate the project and find contacts for fundraising.

Cibus 3.0 (startup) supplied us with iGEM backbones minipreps.

Special thanks to all the people that participated in our human practices for making them possible!