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Team:Brown/Links Acknowledgements
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following individuals without whom this project would not have been possible:
- Dr. Gary Wessel, for his invaluable advice, unremitting patience, continuous encouragement and most of all, tremendous enthusiasm for our project.
- Graduate students Adrian Reich and Diana Donovan, for their continuous guidance and unrelenting patience throughout the project
- The PRIMO Lab, for their generous assistance in research protocols and use of their facilties
- The Barnea Lab, for the use of their laboratory facilities
- John Szymanski, iGEM alum, for competent cells protocol and assistance
- The Faculty Panel, for their invaluable support and advice
- Adella Francis, for her consistent and generous assistance for Brown iGEM teams throughout the years.
- John Cumbers, Founder and continual supporter of Brown iGEM
- The Brown UTRA Program, for funding us to do research at Brown over the summer
- Brown University Departments of Biology and Medicine, Engineering, Computational Biology, Molecular, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry.
- Neil Parikh, Kate Jacobs, Rima Shah, John Szymanski and Aaron Glieberman: Former Brown iGEM Members who helped train and guide us and who set a high standard for future iGEM Mentors
- Dr. Guido Paesen, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Oxford: for providing our initial inspiration to propose a project around the practical implications of a histamine binding protein, and also for sharing rEV131 with us.
- Dr. Loren Looger, Howard Hughes Medical Institute: for his use of computational protein design program to calculate mutations that would transform Tar’s aspartate binding pocket to a histamine binding pocket.
- Dr. Masayori Inouye, Rutgers University: for the generous provision of Tar-EnvZ.
- Dr. Luciano Marraffini, Sontheimer Lab at Northwestern University, for the provision of plasmid pLM6, a shuttle vector for S.epidermidis/E.coli
- Dr. Reinholb Bruckner, for the provision of shuttle vectors PRB474 and PRB473
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