Latest revision as of 18:47, 19 October 2016

Instructors and advisors Attributions Students contributions Instructors and advisors Outside support Sponsors

 Attributions

 Contribution of student team members

• contributed ideas for the project
• performed all cloning
• performed all cell culture experiments (transfection, growth, fluorescence and luminescence reporter assays)
• preformed all biochemical experiments (WB, fluorescence, luminescence measurements)
• wrote all software and models for the project
• built and tested hardware for ultrasound stimulation (Moduson)
• gave online lectures on synthetic biology to interested high school students
• modelling (Žiga and Lidija)
• wrote, distributed and analyzed the results
• designed the wiki page
• drew the schemes for the project (Miha)
• discussed the project and uses of synthetic biology with physicians, patients, experts for ethics and safety, media
• establishing connections with other teams, specialists, patients and companies

 Support of instructors and advisors

• basic training of students for techniques of recombinant DNA and cell biology (Jan, Tina L., Tina F., Maja, Mojca, Fabio, Žiga)
• technical support with confocal microscopy (Mojca, Maja)
• establishing a team morale and work ethics (all advisors)
• establishing connections with experts on ethics and an artist (Roman)
• discussing the results and editing the wiki (all advisors)
• soliciting funds for the project (all advisors)

 We would like to thank our external associates for their support

• Medical doctors and researchers prof. dr. Marko Živin, prof. dr. Tadej Battelino, doc. dr. Katarina Šurlan Popovič, asist. dr. Matjaž Sever and dr. Igor Drobnak for their time and suggestions
• Argentinian artist Laura Olalde for collaborating with us and immersing us in the world of sci-art and contributing with the creation of the cell drawings
• Sociologists prof. dr. Franc Mali, doc. dr. Toni Pustovrh for taking their time to have a discussion with the team about the cultural, ethical and sociological aspects of our project, as well as synthetic biology in general
• Students and teachers from the Science Summer School at Ivanova korita in Montenegro for participating in an online course on synthetic biology, held by the Slovenian iGEM team
• Darko Pajović, President of the Parliament of Montenegro
• Dr. Rok Romih for performing electron microscope analysis
• Patients with whom our team discussed the project and who expressed their views about the possible applications of our findings
• Everyone at the Department of Synthetic Biology and Immunology at the National institute of Chemistry for their patient and friendly advice.