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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 excisting BioBricks (Berkeley coil)	Robert Nitschel	Yes
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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