Team:Sheffield/Attributions

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ATTRIBUTIONS

We would like to thank all these amazing people for helping us on our project and getting this far to make it to Boston!

Supervisors

Professor Visakan Kadirkamanathan gave us general advice about modelling, helped us gain funding support from the engineering faculty and provided funding. Professor Daniel Coca gave us general advice about modelling, helped with recruitment of engineering students and provided funding. Professor David Hornby gave advice on fundraising, supported us in procuring lab space, help with recruiting biology students and provided funding for lab consumables.

  • Professor Visakan Kadirkamanathan
  • Professor Daniel Coca
  • Professor David Hornby

    • Advisors

    Our advisors supported us in many ways, including: lab supervision, giving us feedback on our wiki, coaching us on our presentation, fundraising and advising us on our modelling and lab techniques. Kyle Buchan also came up with our project idea. Dr. Felix Weihs helped us with ordering lab consumables. Nick Moody gave us advice for our iron experiments.

    • Dimitrios Michailidis
    • Jonny Coates
    • Dr. Felix Weihs
    • Kyle Buchan
    • Nicholas R. Moody
    • Carlos Luna
    • John Howard
    • Guilherme Kundlatsch
    • Dr. Dorian Florescu

    Siderophores

    Dr. Mark Thomas' Lab provided advice and a supply of siderophore null bacterial strains for our experiments.

    • Dr. Mark Thomas Lab

    Human Practices Support

    These are a list of people and organisations that we have interviewed as part of our Humans Practices. They include economics, politics and microbiology lecturers from the University of Sheffield as well as patients and panels from the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.

    • Professor Andrew Rycroft
    • Dr. Sarah Thompson
    • Dr. Simon Rushton
    • David Oglesby
    • Dr. Rodrigo Moreno-Serra
    • Jolian McHardy
    • Arne Risa Hole
    • Professor Aki Tsuchiya
    • Paul Slater
    • The Research Advisory Panel for Infectious Diseases(RAPID)
    • Dr. Dave Partridge
    • Royal Hallamshire Hospital
    • Professor Milton Wainwright

    Device Support

    The Insigneo Institute for in silico medicine allowed us access to the Cellular Mechanics and Microfluidics Lab and provided us with materials and equipment for making the microfluidics chips. Dr. Cecile Perrault gave us permission to use her lab and advised us on the initial ideas for the microfluidics design. Luke Boldock taught us how to manufacture microfluidics chips. Both he and Claudia Wittkowske advised us on the design of the microfluidics chips. Dr Sean R Anderson advised us on the design of the fluorometer and a larger mixing device. Dr. David Chau advised us on the freeze-drying of our bacterial cells.

    • Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine: Cellular Mechanics and Microfluidics Lab
    • Dr. Cecile Perrault
    • Luke Boldock
    • Claudia Wittkowske
    • Dr. Sean R Anderson
    • Dr. David Chau

    Modelling Support

    These people have provided us with general advice about modelling, specifically with regards to the binding reactions.

    • Dr. Jeremy Craven
    • Professor Visakan Kadirkamanathan
    • Professor Daniel Coca
    • Carlos Luna
    • Guilherme Kundlatsch
    • Dr. Dorian Florescu

    Lab Space & Consumables

    The Perak Teaching Laboratories and Professor Simon Foster Lab have provided us with lab space, equipment and lab consumables to conduct our experiments. The lab technicians helped us with using the equipment.

    • Perak Teaching Laboratories
    • Dr. Melanie Stapleton
    • Anne Holland
    • Tom Hill
    • Hannah Kelly
    • Josh Hooker
    • Professor Simon Foster Lab

    Organising & Fundraising Advice

    We had a lot of support from these people in helping us to set up and raise funds for our project.

    • Andrew Landels
    • Dr. Graham Stafford
    • Professor David Hornby
    • Dr. Molyneux-Hodgson

    Finance Support

    The following people helped us with financial procedures.

    • James Bollington
    • Jenny Miller
    • Rachel Hammond
    • Sandrine Soubes

    Outreach Support

    We would like to thank the following people for liaising with colleges and helping with the organisation of iGEM Edu Day and other outreach events that we did.

    • Michael Goodreault
    • Seetal Jassal
    • Gemma Greenup

    General Support

    We would like to thank the following people for helping us by providing general advice on our project.

    • Liz Taylor
    • Professor Frank Sargent (University of Dundee)
    • Professor Tracy Palmer (University of Dundee)
    • Alexandra Plochoka (University of Edinburgh)
    • Dave Burrell (University of Dundee)
    • Elizabeth Court
    • Ben Lomax
    • Richard France (Sheffield Engineering Leadership Academy)
    • Professor Simon Foster
    • Professor Steve Renshaw
    • Dr. Iwan Evans
    • Dr. Martin Zeidler
    • Dr. Jim Reid
    • Dr. Pascal-Antoine Christin
    • Dr. Stephen Brown
    • Dr. Dave Kelly
    • Rachel Rodham
    • Dr. Stuart Casson

    ICP-AES Measurements

    The Centre for Chemical Instrumentation and Analytical Services (CCIAS) in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Sheffield provided us with the equipment to make our ICP-AES Measurements.

    • University of Sheffield, Department of Chemistry - Centre for Chemical Instrumentation and Analytical Services (CCIAS)