Team:Wageningen UR/Attributions
From 2012.igem.org
Team Achievements
All the work as described in the labjournals was executed by team mebers of iGEM Wageningen_UR 2012. The table below highlights some of the special achievements of this team. A detailed description of the other work done can be found in the Journal
Activity | Done by | Team member? |
Measuring VLP size using DLS | Mark van Veen | Yes |
Purification of VLPs using FPLC | Mark van Veen | Yes |
Visualizing and measuring VLP size using EM | Mark van Veen, Wouter Elings, Hugo de Vries, Kees van der Ark | Yes |
Construction of modified VLPs | Hugo de Vries, Jeroen Bosman | Yes |
Production of VLPs | All team members | Yes |
Writing the protocol for HepBcAg VLPs | Kees van der Ark | Yes |
Design and assembly of GFP-e-coil construct | Lisa Sonnenberg | Yes |
Modification of existing BioBricks (Berkeley coil) | Robert Nitschel | Yes |
Teaching about synthetic Biology on a secondary school | Joël Klein, Niels Dammes | Yes |
Organization of the iGEM Discovery Festival stand in Rotterdam | Wouter Elings and the Dutch iGEM teams | Partly |
Modelling | Agneya Bushan, Thijs Slijkhuis | Yes |
The Constructor | Thijs Slijkhuis, Jasper Koehorst, iGEM Wageningen UR 2011 | Partly |
Isolation of the PLRV coat protein from natural samples | Marnix Vlot | Yes |
Presenting a poster at a scientific conference | All team members | Yes |
table 1 Overview of attributions and achievements
Acknowledgements
With special thanks to:
Our supervisors Dr. Mark van Passel and Floor Hugenholz, for asking the right questions and advising in problem solving
Dr. Richard Kormelink, for providing the templates of CCMV and Hepatitis B and advising in VLP assembly
Dr. Afshin Mehraban, for practical advice in working with VLPs
Dr. Jan van Lent, for giving team members a crash course in electron microscopy
Dr. Servé Kengen, for assistance and explanation about the FPLC
Ing. Remko Fokking, for explanation about DLS
The whole staff of Systems and Synthetic biology, Wageningen UR, for the lab space and tolerating our presence.
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