Team:Wash U/Credits

Sponsors

 * The Washington University iGEM team would like to thank Sigma Aldrich for donating all of the chemicals and kits necessary to carry out our experiments. They have been extremely generous and helpful throughout the entire process and have even given us a plot of land on their property in the Second Life virtual reality computer game for us to further advertise our experiment.
 * Furthermore, thanks to the following groups for providing student stipends:
 * Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the WashU Career Center, The Energy, Enviornmental, and Chemical Engineering Department, The McKelvey Foundation

Acknowledgements

 * We are very grateful to Dr. Neil Hunter and Dr. Deborah Hanson who contributed by answering our questions and providing us with specific plasmids and strains not available on the Registry of Standard Parts that are necessary for our work with Rhodobacter sphaeroides. We would like to thank Dr. Christopher Voigt's lab for providing us with a sample of cph8. We would also like to thank Dr. Kranz for providing essential bacterial strains and for providing us with ongoing advice concerning our project. In addition we would like to thank the Washington University Biology department for the use of lab space and equipment. We would also like to thank Kevin Chen for providing the amazing photo used in our banner, and Austin Athman for the pucBA regulation graphic.

Links
iGEM
 * iGEM home page http://2009.igem.org/Main_Page
 * Registry of Standard Biological Parts http://partsregistry.org/Main_Page
 * BioBrick Assembly Manual http://ginkgobioworks.com/support
 * Primer Design http://partsregistry.org/Help:Primers/Design
 * Geneart home page http://www.geneart.com
 * The Mathworks home page http://www.mathworks.com

Washington University
 * Washington University home page http://www.wustl.edu
 * Biology Department home page http://www.biology.wustl.edu
 * Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research http://research.wustl.edu/Pages/default.aspx
 * Environmental Health and Safety http://www.ehs.wustl.edu

Sigma Aldrich
 * Sigma Aldrich home page http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/sigma-aldrich/home.html

Online Tools
 * Open Wetware http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page
 * National Center for Biotechnology Information home page http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 * New England BioLabs home page http://www.neb.com/nebecomm/default.asp
 * New England BioLabs NEBcutter V2.0 http://tools.neb.com/NEBcutter2/index.php
 * Integrated DNA Technologies home page http://tools.neb.com/NEBcutter2/index.php
 * Codon Usage Table for R. sphaeroides http://www.kazusa.or.jp/codon/cgi-bin/showcodon.cgi?species=272943
 * R. sphaeroides 2.41 NCBI Genome Tools http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=genome&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Overview&list_uids=18843
 * In silico PCR of R. sphaeroides 2.41 genome http://archaea.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgPcr?wp_target=&db=0&org=Rhodobacter+sphaeroides+2+4+1&wp_f=&wp_r=&wp_size=2000&wp_perfect=15&wp_good=15&wp_showPage=true&hgsid=159191

Wiki
 * MediaWiki Help home page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents
 * Pure CSS Menu http://purecssmenu.com

Contact
 * Team email address washu.igem@gmail.com