Member’s Attributions

All the data presented on this wiki was measured, collected, and analyzed by the team members. All the plasmids directly involved in the data presented on this wiki were constructed by the team members. The idea conceiving, content planning, execution, and result analysis of human practice were all done by the team members. The following is the detailed attribution:

LI Cheng is the team leader of Peking iGEM 2016. He participated in conceiving the project, took charge of troubleshooting, and managed the experiments, guaranteeing the normal operation of the lab.
YANG Xiaoyu was committed to ameliorate the paired dCas9 (PC) reporter system, namely, to enhance the sensitivity and robustness. Early in the project, he was also responsible for information gathering, experiment design, and lab management
BAI Ke was in charge of Human Practice and also worked in the wet lab to construct and prepare plasmids for gRNA in vitro transcription.
DONG Yiming was responsible for designing and manufacturing the portable electronic device that convert optical signal into analogue electrical signal.
LI Yuexuan worked as the financial manager of the team. She was also responsible for plasmid construction and submission.
YANG Changru was in charge of building M.tuberculosis-sensing system using Molecule Beacon. He was also engaged in the protein purification of dCas9 fusion proteins.
ZHAO Shijun was in charge of measuring the luminescence intensity of PC reporter system. She analyzed the entire experimental data.
LV Nayun helped to complete the plasmid construction of sgRNA and was in part responsible for human practice.
WANG Dingyu was in charge of the construction of CRISPR gRNA as well as RNA scaffold in the beginning. Later she was working on the purification of dCas9 fusion protein.
LI Jiamian took the task of cloning dCas9-luciferase. She was also responsible for the testing of PC reporter system.
WEI Jingyi participated in plasmid construction, protein purification, and wiki building. She was also the designer of our PowerPoint slides.
WANG Yuqing was in charge of Modeling. His main task was to computationally search for the suitable guide sequences. Also, he was the lab manager for the normal operation of our lab.
TENG Huaiyuanwas in charge of Modeling. His main task was to computationally search for the suitable guide sequences. Also, he was the lab manager for the normal operation of our lab.

Acknowledgement

We'd like to thank all those who have helped us over the summer, without whose sincere support The Uranium Reaper Project goals would have not been achieved.

General support

Prof. OUYANG Qi, Prof. LOU Chunbo, Dr. ZHANG Haoqian and other teachers helped us during our brainstorming and gave us useful suggestions.
Prof. OUYANG Qi and Prof. LIU Chunli kindly provided the laboratory to us for experiments.

Materials support

Dr. ZHANG Wenbing provided us with the plasmid of 3B(Tri-SpyCatcher within 15X linker).
Prof. ZHOU Lu provided us with Uranyl-binding Protein, also called SUP.
Prof. LIU Chunliallowed us to use his lab to do experiments on uranyl ion. The uranyl nitrate solution and Arsenazo III was provided by Prof. LIU.
Prof. LOU Chunbo provided us with the strain B.Subtilis and mSA, heavy metal ions binding proteins: lead-binding protein, mercury-binding protein and cadmium-binding protein.
Dr. DU Pei provided the beads to us and gave us experimental guidance.
BIT-China gave us the important Interlab kit.

Experiment equipment support

Prof. OUYANG Qi lent the Akta Pure to us for all proteins purification.
Prof. CHANG Zengyi and Dr. WANG Qingsong provided us with Scanner and helped with the setup and scan of gels.
Prof. LIU Chunli provided us with Geiger counter to test the radiation level in and around our lab.
Core Facilities, School of Life Sciences, Peking University,assisted us with ITC.
the State Key Laboratory of environmental simulation and pollution control provided the Aurora M90 mass spectrograph.

Theoretical guidance

ZHANG Yihao and WANG Yu,The wiki designers of Peking iGEM 2015,gave us many suggestions about wiki building.
Dr. YU Daqi of Prof. OUYANG Qi’s lab helped us a lot in experimental operating and data analysis.
Prof. ZHANG Wenbing, Prof. LOU Chunbo and Dr. YU Daqi kindly helped our team with modeling of the project.
Prof. OUYANG Qi, Prof. LOU Chunbo, Dr. ZHANG Haoqian and ZHANG Yihao,the instructors, coached us for the presentation.
Prof. LAI Luhua and Prof. RAO Yi participated in our presentation rehearsal and gave suggestions for revisions.

Synthetic biology course

From March to June, an introductory course of synthetic biology was hold by College of Life Sciences, Peking University.During the course, the teachers, also the instructors gave us kind guidance and judged our project design. In late June, we started in the lab to start our project.

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