Team:Slovenia/Attributions

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
  • modeling (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 advisers

  • 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 advisers)
  • establishing connections with experts on ethics and an artist (Roman)
  • discussing the results and editing the wiki (all advisers)
  • soliciting funds for the project (all advisers)

Support from outside associates

  • Medical doctors and researchers prof. dr. Marko Živin, prof. dr. Tadej Battelino, doc. dr. Katarina Šurlan Popovič, MD, 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, run by the Slovenian iGEM team
  • Darko Pajović, President of the Parliament of Montenegro
  • Dr. Rok Romih for perfuming electron microscope analysis
  • Patients with whom our team discussed the project and who expressed their views on the possible applicability of our findings