Team:UCC Ireland/Attributions


UCC iGEM




Attributions

Principal Investigator: Dr. Cormac Gahan
Senior Lecturer, School of Microbiology & School of Pharmacy, UCC
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Secondary Investigator: Dr. Mark Tangney
Principal Investigator, Cork Cancer Research Centre
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Instructor: Yensi Flores Bueso
PhD candidate, Cork Cancer Research Centre
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Acknowledgements

School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork - Allowing the iGEM team to work in the school of Biochemistry labs throughout the summer.


College of Medicine & Health - Supported our team financially.


Noreen Casey and Jenny Duane, Technical staff in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork - Provided training in biochemistry and molecular biology techniques throughout the summer.

Eli Lilly - Generously provided financial support to our team.


Janssen - Generously provided financial support to our team.


Cathal Garvey, Director of IndieBio EU - Collaborated with us in organising the IndieBio EU 2016 Summer Party & Demo Dinner. Introduced us to the IndieBio teams and the synthetic biology community in Cork.


Prateek Garg, former iGEM member, Paris Bettencourt 2015 and CEO of Peer-To-Peer Probiotics of IndieBio EU 2016 - Gave us advice on our wiki and integrated human practices.


Fyffes - Generously provided financial support to our team.


GenScript - Generously provided financial support to accelerate the development of our CRISPRi system.


Synenergene - Generously provided financial support to our team. Dr. Todd Kuiken of Synenergene gave us invaluable advice on our outreach and human practices.


Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, UCC - Generously provided financial support to the team.


Cork Cancer Research Centre (CCRC) - Allowing the iGEM team to work in their lab over the summer. Provided us with RAW 264.7 macrophages for use in our cell culture experiments.


Dr. Sadeeq Ur Rahman, postdoctoral research fellow, UCC - Provided us with L.lactis for our project. Helped with troubleshooting our cloning process.


Stephanie Davies, PhD candidate, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC - Provided us with invaluable advice when troubleshooting our Gibson assembly and transformations.


Dr Elizabeth Rettedal, Cork Cancer Research Centre - Helped in designing primers for sequencing and in the analysis of sequencing results.


Prateek Garg, former iGEM member, Paris Bettencourt 2015 - Gave us advice on our wiki and integrated human practices.


Dr. Paul Young, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC - Gave advice on labwork


Professor Tommie McCarthy, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC - Advice on fundraising took photos of the team for the wiki.


Sinead O’Loughlin, research assistant, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC - for use of their electroporator for transformation into L.lactis.


Dr. Justin McCarthy - Advice on fundraising.