14 July 2009
The students and organisers would like to express our thanks to the following companies for help through sponsorship, provision of equipment loans and consumables for the University of Cambridge iGEM2009 team:
We would especially like to acknowledge the help of Jeremy Minshull and his colleagues at DNA 2.0 Inc. for their help. The Cambridge team used GeneDesigner software, and the synthesis of the violacein operon was very generously donated to the Cambridge team.
The people we would particularly like to thank for their enthusiasm and support of the Cambridge team are:
David Laflin and Dominic Hogan at Fisher Scientific for chemicals, plasticware and lab consumables.
Miles Collier at Invitrogen for supplying the E-gel system with E-gels and loan of a Blue light transilluminator.
Ya-Chi Chen at Clontech for the In-Fusion Advantage kit, competent cells and chemicals.
Hilde Moseby at Starlab for a huge resource of pipette tips and PCR tubes.
Suravi Chatterjee, Rosemary Sinclair and Chris Uff at VWR for the molecular biology chemicals.
Renata Almeida at Bioline for T-shirt sponorship and molecular biology products.
Euan Forbes and Charlotte Batley (formerly) at Fermentas for Fast Digest enzymes, ligases, ladders and T-shirt sponsorship.
Nina Markillie at GRI for loan of a GeneTechnologies G-storm PCR machine and free KAPPA DNA polymerase.
James Newton and Phil Dobson at Cambridge Biosciences for providing Zymo Research DNA clean up, extraction and plasmid prep kits.
Lauren Dyer and John Pickering at Sterilin for the large supply of microbiological sterile plasticware.
Alex Orda at Anachem for the supply of Earthsaver pipette tips.
Stephanie McHugh at Source BioScience/Geneservice for organising free DNA sequencing.
Everybody at Labtech International, in particular Glynis Johnson and Rachel Keevil for the loan of a Piko thermal cycler, plus Finzymmes Phusion DNA polymerase mixes and a Nanodrop 2000.
Jeremy Minshull and colleagues at DNA2.0 for Biobrick DNA synthesis.
Ed Bagenal at NEB UK for T-shirt sponorship and molecular biology products.
Sponsors at the University of Cambridge:
The School of Biological Sciences,
Department of Genetics,
Department of Plant Sciences,
Department of Biochemistry,
Department of Physiology, Neurobiology & Development and the Herschel-Smith Chair,
The School of Technology,
Department of Engineering,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and
Department of Physics.
Department of Genetics,
Department of Plant Sciences,
Department of Biochemistry,
Department of Physiology, Neurobiology & Development and the Herschel-Smith Chair,
The School of Technology,
Department of Engineering,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and
Department of Physics.
iGEM2009 organisers: Duncan Rowe, Department of Genetics, Gos Micklem, Department of Genetics, CCBI and CCSB, Jim Ajioka, Department of Pathology and Jim Haseloff, Department of Plant Sciences. University of Cambridge.
Thursday, July 07, 2011