Team:Missouri Miners/Attributions
Attributions and Thanks
Attributions
Advising Professors Dr. Westenberg and Dr. Shannon
Many thanks to Dr. David Westenberg and Dr. Katie Shannon for their advice on the feasibility of our project and their technical support.
Dr. Daniel Shank: Missouri S&T Psychological Sciences Department
Thank you to Dr. Shank for his assistance in the composition of our survey.
Web Committee
Thank you to Jen Coleman, Emily King, Alex Go, and our Web Committee for assembling this bomb-ash wiki.
First United Methodist Church
Thank you to the First United Methodist Church of Rolla, Missouri for allowing us to speak with you on the topics of genetic engineering and synthetic biology and providing your invaluable feedback.
Sponsors
Our lab received generous financial support from the Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and the College of Arts, Science, and Business at Missouri S&T, Intact Genomics, and the late Monsanto(RIP: 1901-2018). Thank you to BioBasic for the 2018 iGEM package and IDT for the complementary DNA synthesis.
References
The DNA sequence for the BT toxin in our part was obtained from
Yamaguchi, T., Bando, H., & Asano, S.-I. (2013). Identification of a Bacillus thuringiensis Cry8Da toxin-binding glucosidase from the adult Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 113(2), 123–128. doi: 10.1016/j.jip.2013.03.006