Team:Oxford/Sponsors
Sponsors
Our sincerest thanks to everyone who helped to fund our project. Without their support none of what we have achieved would have been possible.
Oxford Biochemistry Department
The Oxford Biochemistry department funded our project and provided us with lab space in which to work and many of the everyday reagents that we required. Money for the project was also provided by the Oxford Department of Engineering, the Department of Physics and the Department of Zoology for which we are very thankful.
Vice Chancellor
The Oxford Vice Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson kindly provided us a significant amount of money from the Vice Chancellors fund that primarily went towards funding our accommodation and living expenses throughout the summer.
Oxford Colleges
Many Oxford colleges assisted in the project through grants to individual team members or provided discounted accommodation throughout the summer.
Oxford Alumni
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is one of the seven research councils with a proven track record and strong vision to develop, strengthen and support the UK’s bioscience base including an annual investment of £260M in research at UK universities. Together with the Wellcome trust and the SEC, the BBSRC funded 50% of the stipends of ten team members at a rate of £180 per week for a 10 week period throughout the project. This money was essential to the continuation of the iGEM project at Oxford.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
The EPSRC is the main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences, investing more than £800 million a year in a broad range of subjects - from mathematics to materials science, and from information technology to structural engineering. The organisation provided one of our team members, Iain Dunn, a grant to be which used to fund our DNA sequencing and the specialist reagents for our copper assay and chitosan beads.
Society for Experimental Biology
The Society for Experimental Biology is an organisation that aims to "promote the art and science of experimental biology in all its branches". In does this through the organisation of scientific conferences across Europe and the publishing of research journals. Together with the Wellcome trust and the BBSRC, the society funded 50% of the stipends of ten team members at a rate of £180 per week for a 10 week period throughout the project. This money was essential to the continuation of the iGEM project at Oxford.
Biochemical Society
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Society for General Microbiology
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Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome trust is a global charitable foundation that funds over 14,000 people in more than 70 countries in areas of science, population health, medical innovation, the humanities and social sciences and public engagement. Together with the SEC and the BBSRC, the society funded 50% of the stipends of ten team members at a rate of £180 per week for a 10 week period throughout the project. This money was essential to the continuation of the iGEM project at Oxford.
Gilson
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Microscope services
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IDT
IDT synthesised all our DNA parts for us and were very quick and helpful in answer all our questions about DNA synthesis.
Snapgene
Snapgene allows iGEM teams free access to their software we found invaluable in assembling, our parts in silico and well as explaining them to others.
New England Biolabs
New England Biolabs kindly provided the restriction, polymerase and ligase enzymes and buffers that we needed to assemble of DNA parts.
Crowdfunders
We raised money through crowdfunding which we used to buy our jumpers for the Jamboree and much needed food and refreshment as the wiki freeze loomed.
