Attributions

Our project was made possible with the help of many contributors. We thank you all for the generous support you've given us.

Team Instructor Support

• Dr. Makoto Kitabatake (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University) helped us all through our project, provided us with a laboratory, and gave us professional advice as well as training.
• Dr. Shuhei Nasuda (Department of Agriculture, Kyoto University) helped us all through our project, provided us with a laboratory, and gave us professional advices well as training.
• Dr. Qiu-Mei Zhang-Akiyama (Department of Science, Kyoto University) helped us with the usage of our laboratory and gave us valuable reagents necessary for our project.

Project Adviser Support

• Prof. Akira Nagatani (Department of Science, Kyoto University) helped us with the usage of our laboratory.
• Dr. Makoto Kashima (Department of Agriculture, Ryukoku University) helped us all through our projects, giving us valuable advice and opinions.
• Dr. Ryusuke Tadokoro (Department of Science, Kyoto University) helped us borrow a Scanning Electron Microscope and trained us on its usage.
• Prof. Shin Yonehara (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University) helped us with the usage of our laboratory.
• Prof. Teiji Sota (Department of Science, Kyoto University) helped us by undertaking disposal of our experiment wastes, sequencing our plasmids, and letting us borrow -80°C freezer.
• Dr. Tomoo Shimada (Department of Science, Kyoto University) helped us with the usage of our laboratory, and gave us valuable advice as well as training.
• Dr. Yasushi Sukegawa (Institute of Immunotherapy and Research for Cancer, Kinki University) helped our project by providing us with a background on the matter of intestinal bioelimination.
• Dr. Yoshihiko Fujita (Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University) helped us by giving us training on lab safety.
• Prof. Yoshinori Akiyama (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University) helped us with the usage of our laboratory, and with our lab training.
• Mr. Fumihiko Takeuchi (Institute for frontier life and medical sciences, Kyoto university) gave us professional advice as well as training.
• Mr. Fumitaka Hashiya (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)helped us with the registration and storage of reagents.
• Mr. Kanji Nakagawa (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University) helped us with valuable advices about our project.
• Mr. Ryo Takada (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University) helped us with valuable advices about our project.
• Ms. Sayaka Dantsuji (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University) helped us with lab training.
• Mr. Tomohiro Nobeyama (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University) helped us with valuable advices about our project.
• Mr. Hideaki Tsujii (Faculty of medicine, Kyoto University) helped us with HTML codes for our wiki.

Material Support

• Dr. Daisuke Sano (Department of Engineering, Hokkaido University) provided us with NoVLP (Norovirus like particle) and Anti-NoVLP serum.
• Dr. Kyoko Moriguchi (School of Medicine, Fujita Health University) provided us with plasmids coding for anti-NoVLP scFv.
• National Institute of Infectious Diseases provided us with NoVLP.

Human practice support

• Students and teachers of Kobe University secondary School provided us with an opportunity to give lectures about synthetic biology and genetic engineering.

Sponsors

• Kyoto University provided us with a laboratory
• Kyoto University Fund
  We entered the research grant contest named SPEC (Student Projects for Enhancing Creativity) promoted by Kyoto University, and gained ¥500,000. We allotted this money to team registration fees of iGEM.
• COSMO BIO provided us with reagents and kits, free of charge.
• IDT synthesized our DNA, free of charge.
• Promega Corporation provided us with reagents and kits, free of charge.