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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Prof. Ariel Kushmaro Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

Guidance and instruction in Rhodococcus ruber cultivation

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Prof.Alex Sivan, Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

Providing the Rhodococcus ruber

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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.

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Prof. Dan Tawfik, Dr. Halim Jubran, Department of Bimolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science

Providing us with the P.putida KT 2440

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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

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Dr. Ella Mizrahi-Aviv, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

Administration and finance

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Ms. Korin Pery, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

Laboratory equipment

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Dr. Mark Karpasas, Ilse Katz Institute for nanoscale science and technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Mass spectrometry

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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.

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Fox School of Business, M.B.A Team: Amy Krauss, Christy Sheehan, Catherine Maloney, Pamela Mokodefo.

Assistance with the Business plan

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Michael J. Rivera, Ph.D., M.B.A., Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Temple University Fox School of Business.

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Former and current iGEM teams

UC Davis iGEM 2012 team

pelB-LC-Cutinase fusion protein( BBa_K936013)

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TU Darmstadt iGEM 2012 team

Terephthalate metabolic pathway

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Technion iGEM 2016 team

Designing a receptor for Terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol for chemotaxis mechanism

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BGU iGEM 2013 team

Mentoring and the Bacterial self-destruct mechnism

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BGU iGEM 2014 team

Mentoring

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BGU iGEM 2015 team

Mentoring

General support

President - Prof. Rivka Carmi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva Israel

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Rector- Prof.Zvi HaCohen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

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Prof. Jerry Eichler, Department of Life Sciences Chairperson Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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Prof. Smadar Cohen Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

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Dr. Efrat Foti, Head of the research support laboratories, Ilse Katz Institute for nanoscale science and technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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Dr. Emil Ruvinov, Post-doctoral Associate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

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Osnat Eitan, Director of Publications & Media Relations in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

Advertising and video

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Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University

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Faculty of Engineering, Ben-Gurion University

Organizations

The Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology

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Be'er-Sheva Municipality

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Aviv Plastics Ltd.

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Inno-Negev

Plastic Artists

Washed Ashore organization

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Jane Perkins

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Pascale Marthine Tayou

Sponsors