Attributions

Our team consisted of one biologist, two biochemists, one natural scientist, one computer scientist, two mathematicians and three physicists. Therefore our interdisciplinary team combines the different knowledge and skill sets of our members.

We had a week of 'bootcamp' training in the Easter holidays where individuals were taught the basics of lab work and concepts we could employ in our project.

Our project idea was decided during within the first few weeks of July after a lot of brainstorming and discussions with academics.

The project lab work started following the completion of the interlab study in July.

Unless otherwise stated, all the content documented on our Wiki was done by us.

Our team would like to acknowlege the following people for the help and advice they provided along the course of our project

Bootcamp training week

• Dr Chloe Singleton
• Dr Paul James
• Prof John Love
• Jamie Gilman
• Dr Ozgur Akman
• Dan Barber
• Alice Redgate
• Monica Lamici Ayine
• Andy Wild

Project, lab support and advice:

• Dr Chloe Singleton
• Dr Paul James
• Prof John Love
• Jamie Gilman
• Dan Barber
• Dr Richard Tennant
• Dr Sara Burton

Technical support

• Dr Mark Hewlett - Help with dialysis.
• Christian Hacker - Provided us with microscopic evidence throughout the summer.
• Dr Joana Zaragoza-Castells - Helped with sample prep of the ICP-OES
• Angela Elliott - Helped with sample prep of the ICP-OES and ran the metal ion composition analysis

Wiki support

• Charlotte Gurr - Graphic design for wiki, presentation, poster and banner.

Human Practices support

• Dr Sarah Hartley – Introduced the concepts of RRI and assisted with the development of our human practices
• Prof. John Bryant - Gave a talk on the concept of Bioethics
• Dr Sabina Leonelli - Led a discussion on how to extend our human practices and realise our project
• Dr Robert Smith - Advisor to Imperial 2016 iGEM team, Rob gave us helpful tips on how to conduct our human practices

Wheal Maid Field Trip

• Katy Jones - Gave us data on metal ion and microbe species composition of the soils at wheal maid and put us in touch with Tomasa Sbaffi for wheal maid site sampling
• Dr Ann Power - Helped prepare equipment to sample water, helped write protocols for on-site filtering and performing metal ion analysis on the water samples
• Tomasa Sbaffi - Helped navigate the Wheal Maid site, choose the lagoons to be sampled and helped with sampling / sample filtration

Veolia Treatment Plant

• Ross Bray - Site Operation Supervisor at Veolia UK who passed on our information request to the Coal Authority and organised for us to tour the Wheal Jane treatment plant.
• Chris Nappin - Technical Process Electrician who gave us a guided tour of Treatment Plant at Wheal Jane and answered any questions we had.

Thanks and acknowledgements to all other people involved in making a successful iGEM project:

Modelling:

• Dr George Petkov
• Andy Wild
• Daniel Herring
• Dr Ozgur Akman

Biology:

• Dr Jens Benninghoff
• Katy Jones
• Dr Sara Burton

Physics:

• Prof Peter Winlove
• Ryan Edgington
• Dr Chris Brunt

Precedence for project

• Harvard's 2015 iGEM project