Attributions

■Instructors

• Dr. Makoto Kitabatake (Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University) helped us all through our project, provided us with a laboratory, and gave us professional advice as well as training us on the experiment of S. cerevisiae and RNA. In addition, he helped collect and analysis experiment data, and reform our wiki writing. He also gave us safety education and ethics education.
• Dr. Knut Woltjen (Center of iPS Cell Research and Application, and Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University) helped us all through our project, and gave us professional advice.

■Project support and advice

• Dr. Yuko Takeuchi (Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University) provided us with B. xylophilus, trained us on culturing and observing it, and also provided us with laboratory facilities.
• Mr. Suguru E. Tanaka (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo) trained us on culturing B. xylophilus, and provided professional advice on the experiments

■Fundraising help and advice

• COSMO BIO provided us with reagents and kits, free of charge.
• Promega Corporation provided us with regents and kits, free of charge.

■Lab support

• Prof. Teiji Sota (Department of Science, Kyoto University) helped us with the usage of laboratory, provided us with a laboratory, and let us use -80℃ freezer, the microscopy and Nanodrop of his laboratory.
• Dr. Tomoo Shimada (Department of Science, Kyoto University) provided us with a laboratory.
• Dr. Shuhei Nasuda (Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University) provided us with a laboratory and a meeting room.

■Difficult technique support

• Dr. Ichiro Taniguchi (Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University) provided us with the background of RNA nuclear export and helped us with the microinjection of RI-labeled RNA into Xenopus oocytes and the analysis. In addition, he provided us with DNA coding Rev protein.
　
• Dr. Ryusuke Tadokoro (Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University) helped us with the usage of a confocal microscopy.

■Wiki support and presentation coaching

• James Hejna(Graduated School of Biostudies, Kyoto University) gave us valuable advice about our presentation and wiki.
• Mr. Hideaki Tsujii (Faculty of medicine, Kyoto University) helped us with HTML codes for our wiki.

■Human Practice support

• Kyoto city
• Kyoto city forestry cooperative（Ms. Takubo ）
• Kyoto-Osaka forestry cooperative (Mr. Onishi, Mr. Enotani)

■Thanks and acknowledgements for all other people involved in helping make a successful iGEM team

• Prof. Keiko Kuroda (Department of Agriculture, Kobe University) provided us with a background on the matter of the pine disease in Japan.
• Dr. Taisei Kikuchi (Department of Medicine, Miyazaki University) suggested the possibility of culturing B. xylophilus with S. cerevisiae.
• Mr. Shuhei Yamada (Undergraduate school of Engineering, Kyoto University) helped us with revising our English in wiki and presentation.
• Dr. Makoto Kashima (Department of Agriculture, Ryukoku University) helped us all through our projects.
• Mr. Fumitaka Hashiya (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University) helped us with the registration and storage of reagents.
• Mr. Tomoki Uchino (Undergraduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University) trained us on the cloning experiment.