Team:Hong Kong JSS/Attributions

Attribution

Special Thanks to The Following Organizations

Tin Ka Ping Foundation
For financially supporting our project.
Hong Kong Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE)
Provide us with the reagents and equipments for us to organize the iGEM training camp 2019
The National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Providing use with the E. coli single gene knock out strains (cusA, cusF, cutA and copA).
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Allowing us to use the laboratory for preparing competent cell.

Special Thanks to The Following iGEM Team

Hong_Kong_HKUST
For helping us with the mathmatical modeling.
Hong_Kong-CUHK
For inviting us to share our project in the Hong Kong iGEM Symposium.
Hong_Kong_UCCKE
For helping us to conduct our human practice surveys.
Hong_Kong_LFC_PC
For helping us to store and prepare competent cell.

Human Practice Support

Professor Wong Woon Chung, Jonathan
Head of Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University
Providing constructive suggestions on the design of our device and the direction of our project with his experience in both aquaponics and heavy metal pollution.
Professor Wen-Xiong Wang
Director of Coastal Marine Laboratory, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
With his profession in research on the marine heavy metal pollution, we can get information from his professional perspective, which gave us a lot of insight and how to implement our project.
Professor Chan King Ming
Director of the Environmental Science Program, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Providing constructive suggestions on how to improve our project, especially on the characteristics of different homologs of metallothionein.
Dr. Ngan Miu Yung, Olivia
Lecturer of the Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shared with us her views on bioethics and current hot topics in bioethics research areas.

Team Advisors

Professor King Lau CHOW
Director of Interdisciplinary Programs, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dr. Kwok Chi LAU
Co-Director of the Amgen Biotech Experience Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong

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