Attributions
Throughout our project we've received support from a number of people and entities. Without this support, the project would not have been possible. We are very grateful to the following people and entities!
Counseling from the staff at Lund University
Nélida Leiva Eriksson, Researcher at the Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry
For supporting us with wisdom, and motivation over the course of the year. Her move to Boston in August did not stop her from helping us in the hardest of times. Thank you!
Johan Svensson Bonde, Researcher at the Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry
For helping us in many ways and teaching us hard lessons about the importance of experimental replicates. For giving us time out of his schedule to answer our questions and give us advice. Thank you!
Karin Kettisen, Doctoral student at the Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry
For her thorough and supportive help and guidance to every day lab problems, doubts and procedures. Sharing with us her lab equipment. Help us analyze our data, and supervising us when our official supervisors were away. Thank you for everything! Tack!
Anna Lindgren, Professor in Mathematical Statistics
For giving us guidance on how to preform sensitivity analysis in our mathematical model.
Dragi Anevski, Researcher in Mathematics
For giving us guidance on how to develop our mathematical model.
Simon Christensen, Doctoral student at the Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry
For letting us borrow his SDS dye and showing us how to calibrate our ancient pH meter.
Jose Alfredo Zambrano Rodriguez, Researcher at Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry
For counseling on sequence alignment and helping us interpret our results.
Milena Savioli Lopes, Researcher at Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry
For helping us to correctly handle advanced equipment.
Cedric Dicko, Researcher at Pure and Applied Biochemistry
For evaluating our ideas in the brainstorming phase and for allowing us to use his equipment.
Margareta Sandahl, Senior lecturer at Centre for Analysis and Synthesis
For recommending us to let Eurofins do the toxic metal analysis.
Aniko Wendler, Work environment coordinator at Administration Section at LTH
For helping us order toxic metal and helping us realize that we wouldn’t have time to get a license for handling mercury.
Liselotte Andersson, Purchasing Coordinator at Pure and Applied Biochemistry at LTH
For helping us order lab equipment.
Javier Linares-Pastén, Senior lecturer at Biotechnology (LTH)
For supplying us with two one-liter flasks.
Leila Allahgholi, Doctoral student at the Department of Biotechnology
For helping us to use 96-well absorbance reader.
Nina Muratovska, Doctoral student at the Department of Applied Microbiology
For supplying us with GelRed for our agarose electrophoresis when we ran out.
Urban Johansson, Professor at Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology
For input on how to model transport proteins.
External Counseling & Support
Ann-Mari Sjöö Ekström, Authorised Public Accountant at Baker Tilly Halmstad KB
For giving us valuable advice and support regarding accounting and other financial matters.
Dr. Tim McDermott, Professor at Montana State University
For encouraging us to pursue our project through showing interest and giving us helpful advice and insights, presenting valid and reasonable concerns, and providing a few suggestions to start with in the early development stages.
Karin Broberg, Professor, Karolinska Institutet
For giving us knowledge regarding the problem of toxic metals in Sweden and globally, as well as giving us feedback on the feasibility of our project. She also supplied us with valuable information to be integrated in our model.
Mohsen Mahdavi, former rice importer and distributor
For giving us insight into the problem of toxic metals in food in Sweden, as well as giving us feedback regarding the feasibility of our project.
Marie Nyman, Head of The Swedish Gene Technology Advisory Board
For giving valuable insight and help when structuring SynthEthics. She also helped us understand the laws and regulations in the EU and Sweden.
Ann Mohlén Årling, Principal Regulatory Officer and Legal Advisor at the National Food Agency
For giving valuable insight and help when planning and structuring SynthEthics. She also helped us understand the laws and regulations in the EU and Sweden.
Alfred Kedhammar and Marie Österlund, Unga Forskare
For allowing us to educate the students of the AstraZeneca SummerScience camp as well as helping us plan the event.
Max Van Belkum (Past iGEMer, University of Florida)
For giving us advice on how to retrieve EcN.
Bo Benell, Lawyer
For giving us the legal advisory necessary for making SynthEthics reality.
The following students were involved in our SynthEthics project, thank you all: Fransie Streicher (Student), Alexandra Polyakova (Student), Rahil Samlal (Student), Novak Blanka (Student), Dillon Lim (Student), Frederik Stensgaarde (Student), Julia Reinius (Student)
Bernard Rosencrantz, Engineer
For giving us advice on who to talk to about how to measure low concentrations of metals in solutions.
Patrik Nilsson, Student
For counselling us on DOE.
Niclas Ilestam, Director Product Development at BioGaia AB
For giving us valuable advice about the research and experimentation with our bacteria, how the legislation of our product can be handled, and general direction regarding which financial sector we should approach for sponsorship and support.
Probi AB
For helping us decide on the most viable and efficient work path for our project, and giving us valuable insight on obstacles we might face, if we would have decided to use CrispR-Cas9.
Albert Anis, past iGEMer
For listening, and giving valuable advice on how to improve our NiC presentation. Also, for showing a keen interest in our project, and more than willing to give helpful advice whenever asked.
Sara Palo, past iGEMer
For listening, and giving valuable advice on how to improve our NiC presentation and for helping us decide what to do for our contribution.
Adham Sakhnini, past iGEMer
For providing us with valuable advice and tips in the early stages of the project about modelling, and for giving us feedback on how to present our work.
Erik Larsson
For proofreading model documentaion.
Lok Priya Velayuthan
For supplying us with E. coli BL21( DE3) competent cells.
Navneeth Bhargavi Logou
For supplying us with E. coli K12 colonies.
Eva Sjöblom
For supplying us with agar plates and EcN competent cells.
Jonas Wisbrant
For proofreading and good advice on web-design.
Jonny Tran
For logo design and for giving us access to the original logo vectors.
Marcus Rettig
For giving us access to the source code of last years' wiki.
Resources and Financial Support
Thank you to all our sponsors for believing in our project.
Probi AB
For Sponsoring us with 10 000 SEK.
Baker Tilly KB
For sponsoring us with 5000 SEK and giving us access to the accounting program Fortnox.
LMK Foundation
For sponsoring us with 100 000 SEK.
Faculty of Engineering (LTH)
For sponsoring us with 250 000 SEK.
Eurofins
For giving us a substantial discount on the toxic metal analysis. Special thanks to Bo Svensson, who showed great patience and was very helpful.
Team
Arvid Larsson
As a project leader, Arvid did a little bit of everything, altough he was mainly in charge of the model, wiki-construction and project design.
Hampus Ekström
Additionally to being a project leader, Hampus held together the logistics and finance. He was also an integral part in Public Engagement by hosting The iGEM Lund Show
Eneas Hållsten
Eneas was our designer, creating everything from figures on the website and poster, to our animated video.
Erik Hartman
Erik was the main contributor to Human Practices and Public Engagement. He also contributed to project design and wiki-construction.
Julia Thomasson
Julia contributed greatly to the project design and lab-work.
Savvina Leontakianakou
Savvina contributed greatly to the project design and lab-work.
Manjyot Kaur
Manjyot contributed greatly to the project design and lab-work
Mateusz Piotr Szewczyk
Mateusz contributed greatly to the project design and lab-work.
Amr Ghazal
Amr contributed to a little bit of evreything. He helped with writing for the wiki and public engagement.
Lan Hoa Diep
Lan was mainly in charge of the mathematical model.
Viktor Ekström
Viktor was in charge of finances. He also contributed to Public Engagement by hosting the iGEM Lund Show.