Team:British Columbia/Attributions
From 2012.igem.org
Special Thanks
Wet Laboratory Acknowledgements The Steven Hallam lab for hosting our iGEM team, providing us with laboratory space and reagents through the 2012 competition Dr. Lisa Gieg and University of Calgary iGEM for collaborating and splitting the DSZ pathway for characterization: Calgary submitted and characterized DszA and DszB, and UBC covered DszC and DszD Dr. Bob Hancock of UBC for sending us a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Dr. Jonathan Van Hamme of Thompson Rivers University for sending us the Dsz operon VWR, Dr. John Church, the Annual Giving UBC Department of Microbiology & Immunology and BIOL Alumni Appeal Fund, Harry Lim Incorporated and the UBC Faculty of Applied Science for donations of reagents and resources Human Practices Acknowledgements Ian Bell from UBC UILO and Emma Macfarlane from Gowlings for discussions regarding patents Peter Wynne from Chevron Canada, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures AITF representative, Karen Budwill and Oil Sands Leadership Initiative OSLI representatives, John Vidmar and Nicolas Choquette-Levy for discussions regarding industrial applications of microbial consortia Computational Modeling Acknowledgements Dr. Susan Baldwin of UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering, Gurpal Bisra and Shing Hei Zhan (UBC iGEM alumni) for advice on the consortia model Niels Hanson from the Steven Hallam laboratory for advice on the pathway model General Acknowledgements Alberta Genetically Engineered Machines (aGEM) judges and Dr. Phil Hieter of UBC for their constructive advice on our project and presentationOur 2012 Sponsors