We have received generous funding support from BBSRC/WT/SEB fund for UK iGEM, WMG’s Global Research Priorities programme (GRP), GenScript, Faculty of Science funding, Andrew Little Fund (Department of Engineering), Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences/ WISB, Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP), and the Department of Physics. In addition, two students: Robert Richardson and Isobel Holden, have won individual awards to support their research from MIBTP and GRP, respectively. We are very grateful for the support and funding from these sponsors, helping us to achieve our goal and advance the field of synthetic biology.
Team:Warwick/Attributions
Sponsors
Collaborations
We would like to thank our collaborators for their help with various elements of our project.
Manchester iGEM provided us with a version of their model that could be modified and applied to our project. While we decided to use our in-house developed model, we have learnt valuable lessons from analysing their models and discovering how they could be adapted to our needs.
Sheffield iGEM and Cardiff iGEM participated in our efforts to educate and inform sixth formers from around the country in our open day, and invited us to travel to their universities to present our project. This provided us insight into how our presentations could be simplified and gave us valuable practice in presentation skills.
We contributed towards SVCE Chennai's troubleshooting of lab techniques for their project, and also for helping the entirety of the iGEM community.
alencia iGEM aided us with modelling aspects of our gRNA system in exchange for help developing their molecular models. Through this, we achieved a greater understanding of the requirements for our system to activate gene expression.
Finally we would like to thank everyone who participated in the UK iGEM meetup for listening to our presentation and giving feedback on which elements of our poster and presentation could be improved and made more clear. We would like to give thanks specifically to Westminster iGEM for organising the event, and guest speakers, and providing the support and oversight that made it so successful.
Supervisors
We would like to give our thanks to our supervisors, without whom we would be lost in the maze of biology.
Dr Alfonso Jaramillo, Dr Manish Kushwaha, Dr Chuan Huang, Dr Miriam Rodriguez Garcia, Mr Will Rostain and Mr Alexander Darlington have been a huge help to this project, providing experience and expertise in the field of synthetic biology and modelling.
They have supported us throughout the project with teaching us the necessities of lab work, instructing us on RNA modelling and molecular computational models, checking our G-block and oligo orders for errors, and for being extremely patient with us through the ups and downs of the project.
