It is fair to say that without our sponsors the Cambridge iGEM team would have had a much harder time getting anything done.
The people we would especially like to thank for their enthusiasm and support of the Cambridge team are:
| Renata Almeida at [http://www.bioline.comBioline] for T-shirt sponsorship and molecular biology products.
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| Euan Forbes and Charlotte Batley (formerly) at [http://www.fermentas.com Fermentas] for Fast Digest enzymes, ligases, ladders and T-shirt sponsorship.
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| David Laflin and Dominic Hogan at [http://www.fisher.co.uk Fisher Scientific] for chemicals, plasticware and lab consumables.
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| Suravi Chatterjee, Rosemary Sinclair and Chris Uff at [http://www.vwr.com VWR] for the molecular biology chemicals.
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| Everybody at [http://www.labtech.co.ukLabtech International], in particular Glynis Johnson and Rachel Keevil for the loan of a Piko thermal cycler, plus [http://www.Finnzymes.com Finnzymes] Phusion DNA polymerase mixes and a Nanodrop 2000.
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| Ya-Chi Chen at [http://www.clontech.com Clontech] for the In-Fusion Advantage kit, competent cells and chemicals.
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| Hilde Moseby at [http://www.starlab.de Starlab] for a huge resource of pipette tips and PCR tubes.
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| Jeremy Minshull and colleagues at [http://www.dna20.com DNA2.0] for Biobrick DNA synthesis, in particular their generous offer to synthesise the Vio operon at no charge.
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| Lauren Dyer and John Pickering at [http://www.sterilin.co.uk Sterilin] for the large supply of microbiological sterile plasticware.
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| Stephanie McHugh at [http://www.sourcebioscience.com Source BioScience]/[http://www.geneservice.co.uk/home/ Geneservice] for organising free DNA sequencing.
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| James Newton and Phil Dobson at [http://www.bioscience.co.uk/ Cambridge Biosciences] for providing Zymo Research DNA clean up, extraction and plasmid prep kits.
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| Nina Markillie at [http://www.gri.co.uk GRI] for loan of a [http://www.gstorm.co.uk/gene/ GeneTechnologies G-storm] PCR machine and free KAPA DNA polymerase.
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| Alex Orda at [http://www.anachem.co.uk Anachem] for the supply of Earthsaver pipette tips.
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| Miles Collier at [http://www.invitrogen.com Invitrogen] for supplying the E-gel system with E-gels and loan of a Blue light transilluminator.
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| Edward Bagenal from [http://www.neb.com New England Biosciences] for T-shirt sponsorship, and donations of Turbo Electrocompetent E. Coli, 2-log DNA ladders, Phusion Flash High-Fidelity Master Mix and Supercoiled DNA ladders.
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| Everyone from [http://www.bmglabtech.com/ BMG Labtech] for an Omega Series Multidetection Microplate Reader.
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The University of Cambridge:
The School of Biological Sciences, Department of Genetics, Department of Plant Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Department of Physiology, Neurobiology & Development and the Herschel-Smith Chair, The School of Technology, Department of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and Department of Physics.
And finally a massive big Thank You to Duncan Rowe who helped us tremendously with organising sponsorship.