Team:Exeter/Attributions

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Attributions

Our team consisted of 1 biologist, 2 biochemists, 1 natural scientist, 1 computer scientist, 2 mathematicians and 3 physicists. Therefore our interdisciplinary team combines different knowledge and skills 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.

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

Difficult technique support

* Dr Mark Hewlett - Help with dialysis

* Christian Hacker - Performed negative staining of the WT E. coli , our bacterial constructs and sand

* 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 - Designed graphics for the wiki

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 introducing the concept of Bioethics

* Dr Sabina Leonelli - Lead a discussion on how to extend our human practices

* 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.

Fundraising help and advice

* Dr Chloe Singleton - Reviewed our grant applications.

* Dr Paul James - Also reviewed our grant applications.

Presentation coaching

* Dr Sara Burton - Helped us practise our RRI presentation.

* Dr Sarah Hartley - Inspired our RRI presentation content.

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

Modelling:

* Dr George Petkov

* Andy Wild

* Daniel Herring

* Adam

* Dr Ozgur Akman

Biology:

* Dr Helen Dawe

* Dr Vicki Gold

* Dr Jens Benninghoff

* Dr Bertram Daum

* Katy Jones

* Dr Sarah Burton

* Yara Zahir

Physics:

* Prof Peter Winlove

* Ryan Edgington

* Dr Chris Brunt