Team:SDU-Denmark/Attributions

Attributions


Nothing can be done alone, so please scroll further to read about the contributors, who helped make this project a reality.

Laboratory, Technical and General support


We would like to give a special thanks to our supervisors:

  • Assistant professor, Mikkel Girke Jørgensen, for his general support and advice on the project, the laboratory, the fundraising and our team synergy.
  • Ph.D. student and former iGEM participant, Patrick Rosendahl Andreassen, for his guidance and technical assistance in the laboratory.
  • Ph.D student and former iGEM participant, Thøger Jensen Krogh, for his help in developing the wiki, as well as his laboratory guidance.
  • Cand.phil student and former iGEM participant, Tim Munk, for his focus on team dynamics and advice for our human practices.


We would also like to thank:

  • Academic assistant, Tina Kronborg, for her guidance in the lab, as well as for providing us with laboratory equipment.
  • Medical Laboratory Technician, Simon Rose, for giving us a course in lab safety, risk assessment and general guidance in the lab.
  • Postdoc, Oona Sneoyenbos-West, for providing us with Geobacter Sulfurreducens PCA and the necessary knowledge on how to grow this particular bacterial strain. Furthermore, she helped us greatly with helpful discussions regarding the advancement of our project. We would also like to thank her for lending us her laboratory, for the cultivation of G. Sulfurreducens PCA.
  • Postdoc, Satoshi Kawaichi, for his assistance in measuring the electrical conductivity of our nanowires, as well as providing us with knowledge on the G. Sulfurreducens.
  • Business scout and PhD, Ann Zahle Andersen, for presenting us with the necessary tools for the development of innovative business ideas.
  • Stud.scient, Kristian Severin Rasmussen, for helping us use the oCelleScope for testing.
  • Stud.scient, Brian Baltzar, for hosting a workshop regarding the use of Adobe Illustrator, which has been a great help to the development of graphics for our wiki.
  • Ph.D student, Richard Xavier Etienne Valli, for helpful discussions in the lab.
  • Software Developer, Jonas Hartwig, for his help on some JQuery functionality on the wiki.
  • Stud.scient, Birka Jensen, for general advice and suggestion on how to build an iGEM wiki.
  • Stud.med, Ida Charlotte Hvam, for helpful discussions on the development of our wiki, helping with last minute figures to the wiki, as well as proofreading its content.
  • Stud.med, Maria Victoria Mikkelsen, for helpful guidance regarding the composition of experiment pages and proofreading.
  • Stud.med, Liza Gaardsted Hansen, for proofreading our wiki in the 11th hour.
  • Ph.D student and current iGEM advisor for the Bielefeld team, Boas Pucker, for providing us with BioBricks created by former iGEM teams from Bielefeld.
  • Our iGEM HQ Representative, Traci Haddock-Angelli, for her general guidance and assistance in registering our Danish Ethics and Wiki Workshop to the official iGEM meetup page.
  • iGEM HQ Representative and Lab Technician, Abigail Sison, for her help in registering our Danish Ethics and Wiki Workshop to the official iGEM meetup page.
  • Stud.polyt, Oliver Klinggaard, for helpful discussions on the implementation of a pan-tilt system and for providing us with his project report on the subject.
  • DTU BioBuilders, for hosting their 5th Annual Biobrick Workshop and for attending our Danish Ethics and Wiki Workshop.
  • The UNIK Copenhagen iGEM team, for hosting the Nordic Meetup and for attending our Danish Ethics and Wiki Workshop.
  • The TU-Delft iGEM team, for hosting the European Meetup.
  • Mimo Antabi, for adding our adverts to the University of Southern Denmark’s info screens preceding the Danish Science Festival.
  • Anders Boe, for putting an enormous amount of work into the postproduction of our commercial.
  • Allan Haurballe Madsen, for helping us with our appearance at the Danish Science Festival.
  • Outreach Coordinator and PhD, Lise Junker Nielsen, for for helping us with the Danish Science Festival as well as with the visit from the Academy for Talented Youth. We would also like to thank her for providing us with iPads for laboratory use.
  • The Danish Science Festival, for having us at their annual event. We would also like to thank all the visitors who attended our booth, especially the children who participated in our ‘Draw-a-Bacteria’-contest.
  • The high schools Odense Technical Gymnasium, Mulernes Legatskole and Academy for Talented Youth, for letting us present our project and to engage in rewarding discussions about synthetic biology.
  • The UNF Biotech Camp, for having us present our project to the attending students.
  • The elementary school, Odense Friskole, for letting us present our project for their 8th grade students, thereby forcing us to contemplate how to convey a subject depending on the audience.
  • All former iGEM participants from SDU, for attending our preliminary presentation and giving us feedback before the Giant Jamboree.
  • The following groups and associations, for helping us develop our human practices: SP-Moulding, Borgernes Hus, Kommunens bygninger, Bolbro - områdefornyelse, Odense Byudvikling.
  • Project manager (Smart City Odense), Kristina Dienhart, for wonderful advice on how to involve Odense Municipality in our project. We want to thank her for our conversation on the implementation of The PowerLeaf in Odense. We would also like to thank her for leading us to the ongoing project of Bolbro’s city renewal.
  • Project Manager Bolbro City Renewal (DitBolbro), Rikke Flagreen Mortensen, for meeting with us to discuss how The PowerLeaf could be implemented in the neighbourhood of Bolbro. We would also like to thank her for providing us with a pitch and reading-materials on Odense’s green goals.
  • Director of audience - and Central Library Odense (Borgernes Hus), Jens Winther Bang Petersen, for our email correspondence and upcoming meeting with members of our iGEM team.
  • MATLAB user Nezar, for an easy implementation of the gillespie algorithm into MATLAB.
  • Flemming Christiansen, for his guidance and expertise in choices regarding materials and prototype.

Sponsors


Thanks to:

  • The Faculty of Science at University of Southern Denmark, for providing us with the fundamental funds required for our participation in the iGEM competition, and for providing us with laboratory benches and essential equipment.
  • The Faculty of Health Sciences at University of Southern Denmark, for their much needed funding of our project.
  • Integrated DNA Technologies, for providing us with 20 kilobases of gBlock gene fragments.
  • SnapGene, for providing our team with memberships to their software during the duration of the competition.
  • PentaBase, for sponsoring us with 10,000 DKK worth of oligos and a further 10% discount.
  • New England Biolabs, for providing our team with a BioBrick® Assembly Kit, a Q5® High-Fidelity 2X Master Mix and a Quick-Load® Purple 2-Log DNA Ladder.
  • CO2 Neutral Website, for attributing to green energy in our name, and thereby eliminating the carbon footprint our wiki makes.
  • Piktochart, for extending their student offer to our mail, and for providing us with easy access to great graphics.

Project Synergy


We have all been working together in every aspect of our project. Nevertheless, some people have had to focus on some areas more than others. The main groups are listed as follows;

  • The group focusing on fixation of CO2, production of cellulose and light-dependent dormancy system consisted of Sarah Hyllekvist Jørgensen, Ellen Gammelmark, Sofie Mozart Mortensen and Emil Bøgh Hansen.
  • The group focusing on the breakdown of cellulose to create an electrical current and the optimisation of nanowires consisted of Felix Boel Pedersen, Frederik Bartholdy Flensmark Neergaard, Jonas Borregaard Eriksen and Malte Skovsager Andersen.
  • The group focusing on the implementation of the device in an urban environment as well as our outreach consisted of Emil Søndergaard, Frederik Damsgaard Højsager and Lene Vest Munk Thomsen.
  • The mathematical modelling of our project was single-handedly performed by Emil Vyff Jørgensen.
  • Coding and design of the wiki was performed by Felix Boel Pedersen and Frederik Damsgaard Højsager.

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