Team:Michigan/Attributions

Attributions

The Michigan Synthetic Biology Team was responsible for most aspects of running the team. From designing the project, purchasing supplies, writing protocols, and executing the lab work. Help received from advisors and others is greatly appreciated and acknowledged below.
General support
We would like to thank the University of Michigan’s Program in Biology, the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology department, the College of Engineering, the Chemical Engineering program, and the Barger Leadership Institute for providing us with funding.
To Dennis Drobeck for allowing us to use lab space in the Undergraduate Science Building on campus. A very special thank you to our corporate sponsors, Swift Biosciences, Cayman Chemical and SnapGene for providing us with funds and software.
To the Ann Arbor T-Shirt Company for printing our team t-shirts.


Project support and advice
Anuj Kumar and Marcus Ammerlaan, our faculty advisors for all their support in technical troubleshooting and overseeing the project while also giving us the independence of being student researchers. To our alumni advisors Cristina Castillo and Nicholas Emery for helping us with project design and wetlab work.

Fundraising help and advice
To Cindy Wu and the team from Experiment.com for providing excellent fundraising advice.
The Barger Leadership Institute for providing general fundraising and communication advice.

Lab support
Cristina Castillo for providing us with some materials and helping us with wet lab work in her laboratory as well as sequence submission.

Difficult technique support

Project advisor support
To Nicholas Emery for helping us with our mathematical modeling.
To Anuj Kumar, one of our faculty advisors, for helping us contact speakers for our panel event.

Wiki support

Presentation coaching
A special thank you to Professor Carlos Aguilar for giving us advice on our presentation.

Human Practices support
A special thank you to Ahn Dinh for illustrating the children’s book we wrote, The Aquatic Adventures of Bobby the Bacteria. For more of her work follow her on instagram @hollowram (http://view-instagram.com/usr/hollowram/id-2928951071)
To the Impression 5 museum in Lansing, MI for hosting and helping us organize an event dedicated to educating young children and parents about synthetic biology and science.
To the Peace Neighborhood Center in Ann Arbor, MI for allowing us to read our book at their story time on October 30th, 2017.
To the University of Michigan’s MSTEM department for sponsoring our panel “Genetically Modified Organisms: Applications and Safety Concerns”
To Professors Steven Clark, Aniket Aga, Brian Zikmund-Fisher and Julian Adams, all from the University of Michigan, for participating as speakers in our panel event.
To Daisy Y. Shu, Ph.D candidate at the University of Sydney, Australia for hosting us on her podcast “The Peer Review.” ( https://medium.com/thepeerreview)