Team:Dundee/Attributions

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The Dundee iGem team would like to extend our deepest thanks to each and every individual, company and sponsor who have helped us along our way. Without your kind assistance and support, our project would only have remained an idea.

Dr James Cargill: Who supervised and aided the wet lab team with C. difficile growth/ competition experiments.
Miss Katie Ravenscraig Morrison: Who created the graphic version of our team mascot.
Mr Jaeger Hamilton: For taking part in the video for our song.
Mr Andrew Herd: For helping with the design of the wiki.
Mrs Geraldine Sandilands: For keeping us right with all of the travel arrangements for Edinburgh, London and Amsterdam.
Dr Jackie Heilbronn: For general assistance with ordering and lab safety.
Dr Lisa Grayson: Who assisted us when answering the safety questions and helped us to formulate our risk assessments.
Dr Nicola Stanley-Wall: For advice, and for providing us with materials that we were able to use on our outreach day at The Shore.
Professor Eric Cascades: For allowing us to reproduce his diagram of the Type VI Secretion System.
Professor Angus Lamond: For his artistic input.




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