Team:Delaware/Attributions
Attributions
This year was the first year for an iGem team at the University of Delaware. As a team we faced a number of challenges and we would not have been able to face them if it wasn’t of the help of the following contributors and the committed University of Delaware students that put a huge amount of hours into figuring out protocols, writing grants, and working together in the lab.
What did we accomplish?
As a team we were able to create a plasmid construct for bacteriocins that we had the hope of inserting into bacteria using Gibson assembly but unfortunately due to lab restrictions and the McKinley fire we were unable to complete this task.
Financial support
Financial Support from Career Services Center Faculty & Staff Career Innovation Grant and department of Biology at the University of Delaware, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Lab support
Lab support provided by Tisa Della-Volpe in McKinley Labs, White Dog Labs, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware McKinley Labs, IDT, and New England Biolabs.
Project advisor support
Special thanks to all the advisor support from Dr. Amy Biddle Ph.D., Cath Wu Ph.D., William Cain Ph.D. Karen Hoober Ph.D.
Wiki support
Wiki support provided by Hannah Geyer a visual communications major at the University of Delaware and inspiration from Imperial College in London’s 2016 Team wiki page.
Human practices support
Human Practices support from Urban Promise and Sharon Kreamer at The Tatnall School. Also special thanks to UVA’s iGem team for hosting a meet up over the summer which gave our team the opportunity to meet other teams, be inspired by their work, and got our team excited about our future at the University of Delaware.
Thanks and special acknowledgements
Special thanks to Meredith Bonnell, Dr. Jeannie Stephens, and Jake Hilzinger for supporting the team at its start. Also to all the team members that made the team function.
Team Training and Project Start
When did we start the project
Our project started in the Spring of 2017.
When did we start in lab research
In lab research began in McKinley Labs at the University of Delaware in the Summer of 2017.
When did we start brainstorming
Graduate students Adam Faranda, Sam Keating, and Jake Hilzinger were the storming brains who founded the project
