Team:Warsaw/Team
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STUDENTS
Dorota Kaja Sabat
![Kaja](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/1/16/Kaja.png)
Krzysztof Szczepaniak
![Krzysiek](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/4/4b/Krzysiek.jpg)
Magda Ghanim
![Magda](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/9/93/Magda.jpg)
Monika Szewczyk
![Monika](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/3/34/Monika.jpg)
Elżbieta Jankowska
![Ela](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/f/ff/262x329.png)
Weronika Krzynowek
![Weronika](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/d/d3/Weronika.png)
Weronika Krzynowek is twenty-one years old
She's polite and always does as she's told
For a girl her age, she's considerate and nice
But she wants to be just like she's throwing the dice
She doesn't mind living with her sister, dog, and cats
Though she'd rather share a home with spiders and bats
There she could reflect on the horrors she has invented
and wander dark hallways alone and tormented
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum
He likes to experiment on her dog Abocrombie
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie
So that he and her horrible zombie dog
could go searching for victims in the London fog
Her thoughts aren't only of ghoulish crime
He likes to paint and read to pass some of the time
While other kids read books like "Go Jane Go"
Weronika's favorite author is Edgar Allen Poe.
Anna Misiukiewicz
![Anna](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/3/3d/20120925201352!2.jpg)
Nikodem Latocha
![Nikodem](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/4/4d/Nikodem.jpg)
INSTRUCTORS
prof. dr hab. Jacek Bielecki
![prof. Bielecki](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2008/1/1c/Prof.Jacek_Bielecki.gif)
Education: MSc, University of Warsaw, 1975 ;PhD, University of Warsaw, 1981 ;Associated professor, Warsaw University, 1995; Professor at University of Warsaw, 1996 ;Vice Dean of Faculty of Biology, 1996 - 1999, and 1999-2002
Research interests: Molecular mechanisms of virulence of bacteria Listeria monocytogenes, especially the role of a hemolysin, listeriolysin O (LLO).
dr. Radosław Stachowiak
![Radek](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2009/6/69/RadoslawStachowiak.jpg)
dr. Takao Ishikawa
![Takao](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/f/fb/TI.png)
OUR SINCERE THANKS GO TO:
- The scientists and students working at the Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Applied Microbiology and Department of Metabolism Regulation of Faculty of Biology at Warsaw University for their support and patience.
- Our instructors: prof. Jacek Bielecki and dr. Radosław Stachowiak from the Department of Applied Microbiology and dr. Takao Ishikawa from the Department of Molecular Biology.
- Ania Olchowik and Michał Lower for all the help and advice they provided.
- Prof. Krzysztof Staroń, dr. Jan Fronk, and dr. Alicja Czubaty from Department of Molecular Biology, prof. Jadwiga Bryła from Department of Metabolism Regulation, as well as Katarzyna Roeske from the Department of Applied Microbiology and Cora Chmielowska for the support and kind words during the whole summer.
- Prof. Marta Kicińska-Habior, Vice-Rector for Student affairs, prof. Andrzej Twardowski, the Director of the College of Interfaculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Science, and the Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, especially our Deans: prof. Joanna Pijanowska, dr. Magdalena Markowska, dr. Piotr Borsuk and dr. Maciej Garstka.
- Gilbert for his magical skills.
- University of Warsaw Foundation for the trust they granted us.
- All of our sponsors - without them we wouldn't be able to make anything.
- iGEM teams: Edinburgh Team, who graciously granted us the multihost pTG262 plasmid.
Also, we send our heartfelt thanks to Slovenia Team for sending us the CMV promoter.
Attribution
We had an ambitious project and very little time; therefore, we adopted a shift based work system in the wet lab. Some team members used to come early in the morning and after dinner their experiments were passed to others, who like working late.
Bacillus subtilis construct
The parts for Bacillus subtilis were designed by Elżbieta Jankowska, Krzysztof Szczepaniak, and Nikodem Latocha. The whole team helped in the lab work, which was mainly supervised by Ania Misiukiewicz, our chief microbiologist, whose skills and patience were crucial in this part of the project.
Mammalian construct
The work was designed and performed mainly by Kaja Sabat. The whole team helped wherever they could.
Shuttle vector
The work was mainly designed by Kaja. The whole team helped wherever they could.
Human practice
Kaja, Krzysztof and Elżbieta went to the conference 'Numbers, Computers, Life', where Ela and Krzysztof gave a presentation, and all three of them presented a poster about last year's iGEM project. There they met Weronika Krzynowek, who joined our team in the summer.
The whole team ran the stand on the Biologists' Night at the Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw.
Dr. Radosław Stachowiak, our instructor, performed a presentation on the 2nd International Scientific Seminar "Science-Society-Didactics" on synthetic biology.
Wiki
The website was coded by Weronika, our codemaster. The graphics and pictures were made by Elżbieta, our homemade artist. Kaja wrote the "steps" part. The whole team contributed to our wiki, which was corrected and edited by Magda Ghanim, the grammar nazi.
Fundrising
Monika Szewczyk did a great job acquiring sponsors and rising funds. During the summer, Magda contributed to the organization of funds and invoices. Krzysztof helped in acquiring all the stamps we needed.