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Attributions

We would like to thank everyone supporting our project by small or large contributions. Without the broad support from all research groups and experts we contacted in Bielefeld, Germany and even all over the world, a comprehensive project like this would have been hard to achieve. During our research, every member of our team gained skills and knowledge from several experts listed below. Their expertise helped us to confidently work on our project and achieve our goals.

General support

Prof. Dr. Jörn Kalinowski gave us the opportunity to participate in iGEM by providing us with our own laboratory and the resources of his work group.

Dr. Christian Rückert participated in our weekly team meetings and helped us over the whole time with advice and assistance.

Prof. Dr. Kristian Müller supported us with advice and equipment.

Julian Droste and Boas Pucker: A special thank you to our both advisors for supporting and encouraging us to realize all our ideas. A lot of supervisors would have advised us to choose an easier project or to focus only on a small part. Thank you so much for your input and letting us so freely in our research.

Experts

Prof. Dr. Nediljko Budisa supported us with his expertise in the aaRS evolution and even inviting us to work on our project in his lab at the TU Berlin.

We thank Huan Sun and Fabian Schildhauer for all the help, advice, and supervision in Berlin concerning the amino acyl-tRNA synthtase selections. Thank you for the interesting conversations and the great oppertunity to benefit from your experience.

Dr. Florian Richter helped us a lot with his knowledge about ROSETTA and supported our modelling team with their project.
Iker Valle Aramburu, predoctoral fellow at the EMBL Heidelberg, supported us with his expertise in labeling non-canonical amino acids and participated at our conference.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Carell offered some feedback during the early stages of our project. He also named further experts for different parts of our projects, which we consequently contacted.

We thank Vitor Panheiro and Piet Herdewijn for the very helpful skype interview.

Dr. Martin Smith gave us very helpful information for sequencing of very low amounts of DNA and single cell sequencing using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing.

Achim Müller advised us to think about problems concerning heat production and gave us important input to improve heat dissipation and reduce voltage drop in our circuit design.

Dr. Risto Kõiva gave important information on circuit board design rules and checked the final design for errors.

Melanie Schwarz helped us by telling us restrictions and important information concerning oligos. with unnatural bases. Also assessed if our designed oligos have a high possibility to anneal correctly.

Prof. Raul Machedo for conceptional advice how to build a plasmid with repetitive gene sequences like silk elastin like proteins.

Material, constructional and analytical support

The work group Microbial Genomics and Biotechnology allowed us to use their laboratories and equipment and showed great patience when we occupied many of the facilities.

We want to thank the Sequencing Core Facility for all the sequencing, without which our project never would have been succeeded.

Dr. Sandip Jadhav, Dr. Marcel Frese and Prof. Dr. Norbert Sewald: A huge thank you for helping us synthetizing our own non-canonical amino acid. Without you providing your lab and supervising us this part would have been difficult to realize.

Prof. Dr. Dario Anselmetti from the research group biophysics and nanoscience provided us equipment and expertise for all subprojects requiring biophysical methods.

Dr. Thorsten Seidel from the research group dynamic cell imaging provided us help with the fluorescence microscope and expertise in bio imaging and with the FRET system.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Lütkemeyer, Dr. Benjamin Müller, Prof. Dr. Thomas Noll and Ole Weigelt for their encouragement and tips regarding to the new chromatography method including the light elution.

Dr. Vera Ortseifen assisted us in preparing and measuring samples for the protein identification via MALDI-TOF/TOF.

The botanical garden Marburg maintained by the University of Marburg kindly allowed us to collect tissue samples from croton tiglium and gave us with our own plant for the conservatory at Bielefeld University.

We want to thank Willy Keller from Genome Research for the RNA extraction and cDNA synthesis.

Human practices support

We want to thank Prof. R. Alta Charo, Prof. Sune Holm, Stefan Wolf, Dr. med. Hansjörg Heußlein, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Heinrichs, Prof. Ulrich Krohs, Cemil Sahinöz, and Prof. Dr. Kathryn Nixdorff . They answered our questions concerning bioethics in the ChImp report and supported and encouraged us with their expertise. Thank you so much!

Note: Experiments described in our wiki were carried out by members of the iGEM team Bielefeld-CeBiTec 2017 (see members page for details). Some sophisticated analyses were supported by other scientists from Bielefeld University, but team members carried them out. In very few cases we used commercial services for routine tasks like DNA synthesis (IDT, GenScript), oligonucleotide synthesis (metabion) or Sanger sequencing (Sequencing Core Facility, CeBiTec, Bielefeld, Germany).

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 We want to thank <b>Prof. R. Alta Charo</b>, <b>Prof. Sune Holm</b>, <b>Stefan Wolf</b>, <b>Dr. med. Hansjörg Heußlein</b>, <b> Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Heinrichs</b>, <b> Prof. Ulrich Krohs</b>, <b> Cemil Sahinöz</b>, and <b> Prof. Dr. Kathryn Nixdorff </b>.
-They answered our questions concerning bioethics in the CHIMP report and supported and encouraged us with their expertise. Thank you so much!
+They answered our questions concerning bioethics in the ChImp report and supported and encouraged us with their expertise. Thank you so much!
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