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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 made 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, iGEM Adviser, and Diana Donovan, for their continuous guidance and experimental support throughout the project.
- John Szymanski, iGEM alum, for his original competent cells protocol and generous assistance in the lab.
- Adella Francis, for her consistent and generous administrative assistance for Brown iGEM teams past and present.
- John Cumbers, Founder and continual supporter of Brown iGEM Teams.
- The PRIMO Lab, for their generous assistance in research protocols and laboratory facility use.
- The Barnea Lab, for the use of their laboratory facilities.
- The Faculty Panel, for its invaluable support and advice.
- The Brown UTRA Program, for undergraduate summer research funding at Brown University.
- 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 Team Members who helped train and guide us, setting a high standard for all future iGEM Mentors.
- Dr. Guido Paesen, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Oxford: for providing the initial inspiration to propose a project concerning the practical implications of a histamine binding protein, and also for generously sharing rEV131.
- 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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