Team:Linkoping Sweden/Attributions
Attributions
The people and companies mentioned below have, in different ways, been able to provide different qualities or sponsorships for students of the Liu iGEM team 2016 in their work during this year’s project. A special thank you is required for all the help and support, making this project possible at all.
Our advisor Agnes Ekberger, participated in the last year’s team, has shared her experience in what iGEM is all about.
Johan Edqvist was a great inspiration for our project idea. He has given us the equipment and protocols for algae cultivation and also our algae.
Our Principal Investigators Lars-Göran Mårtensson and Per Hammarström have supported the team with great knowledge and advice when it comes to laboratory work and administration work.
Linköping University of Technology has helped the team with the registration fee, equipment, laboratory and other facilities.
North Eastern iGEM team 2015 has helped us by sharing their protocols.
Nulink helped the team to reach out to business through their communications channels such as website and social media.
Patrik Lundström has supported the team with guidence when it comes to laboratory equipment.
Robert Forchheimer was hosting the traditional kick-off. Professor Forchheimer interviewed when we desired to learn more about LiU iGEM since he is the founder and also an inspiring person. He has through the whole project showed a great interest and been enthusiastic about iGEM and our work.
Our instructors Sandra Lilja and Deborah Traujtmann helped us with guidance in connection with the start-up of the lab and the project planning, registration of teams and team members to iGEM. They also have provied aid and support throughout the entire project and helped us with regisstration of the team.
The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has provided with financial support.
Victoria Ovmark is a graphic designer that helped us design the image of a circuit for the production and consumption of biodiesel produced by algae.
A course in syntetic biology
The department of physics, chemistry and biology (IFM) at Linkoping University teach a course in synthetic biology. By having the iGEM project partly as a course, the participating students can apply for financial support in order to manage to work with the project during the summer. Student that only participates in the project are welcome aswell.
During the course, the iGEM team had access to some equipment and chemicals that were needed during the project. We were given a quick guide with equipment that we hadn’t used before aswell. We also had a runthrough of saftey protocols aswell as a walkthrough on a risk analysis system called Klara.
Even though it is a course, the students have planed and organized the project and laboratory work all by them selves, which is some of the critera for the course. The course is divided into two examination parts, 9 and 6 credits. The first part refers primarily to laboratory work and modeling, the second part relates mainly to the presentation and documentation. The maxium credits you could get was 15.
The course and the brainstorming started in march 2016. We started to work on the project at the same time. The laboratory part started in june 2016 It ended october 19th 2016.
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