Team:Kyoto/Attributions

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  • Attributions

    • Attributions

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

    1 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.

    2 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. 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.
    • Dr. Ryusuke Tadokoro (Department of Science, Kyoto University) helped us borrow a Scanning Electron Microscope and trained us on its usage.
    • 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. Hideaki Tsujii (Faculty of medicine, Kyoto University) helped us with HTML codes for our wiki.
    • 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.

    3 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.
    • Dr. Motohiro Miki (National Institute of Infectious Diseases), Ms. Reiko Todaka (National Institute of Infectious Diseases), and Prof. Kazuhiko Katayama (Kitazato Institute for Life Science, Kitazato University) provided us with NoVLP.

    4 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.

    5 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.