Attributions

Our project would not be possible without the endless support and contribution of these people and organizations. We genuinely appreciate for showing your constant help in making our project achieve all our milestones. Special thanks to School of Science and Humanities of Nazarbayev University for funding our projects annually and for providing us with the laboratory facilities.

The human resources needed to pull of such a grand project is the key. This project would not have achieved such results without the help of Dr. Abdulla Mahboob and Dr. Enrico Marsili. The 19 members of our team who worked tirelessly to deliver the best results throughout the summer and fall break for six months.

Team members

Project Advisor: Daulet
Parts and gene construct: Atabek, Sabina, Damir
Modeling: All
Wetlab: All
Collaboration: Daulet, Atabek, Damir, Aidana, Shamil
Human Practices: Aidana, Akerke, Zarina, Assylay, Adiya, Damir
Wiki Design: Meruyert
Wiki Photos: Akerke
Poster and presentation: Atabek, Tomiris, Alyamdar, Aidana
HydroPlat: Aidana, Daulet, Damir, Akerke, Assylay, Zarina

General Support

Special thanks to all faculty members of the Biology, Chemistry, and Physics Departments of School of Science and Humanities at Nazarbayev University for their great support, advice and working space provided during the project execution.

Project support and advice

Abdulla Azzam Mahboob, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, School of Science and Technology, Nazarbayev University.
Supervised the project progress and protocols design.
Assisted in designing and modeling of constructs.
Gave the general guidance on the best practice in the lab and ensured the safety of the experiments performed.
Supported us at every step of iGEM, was ready to listen to all our concerns and issues during project conduction, and helping us to find coherent solutions, staying late nights with us.
Ordering reagents and solving every single problem we created.
Assisted in getting S. elongatus PCC 7942 strain and reagents.
Enrico Marsili, Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University - developing the bioreactor for the cyanobacteria
School of Science and Humanities, Nazarbayev University - Financial support for our project and team for the duration of the project.

Lab support

School of Science and Humanities of Nazarbayev University: working place (laboratories), reagents and equipment.
Nazarbayev University Research and Innovation System (NURIS): reagents and equipment.
ABC Incubation: expertise and promotional support
Green Campus: expertise and promotional support

Special thanks to:

Aigerim Negmatova who helped us with providing and ordering reagents.
Baurzhan Negmetzhanov for sharing reagents, protocols and lab facility.
Alexander Tikhonov for helping with hydrogen assay and giving advises.
Yersultan Mirasbekov, Lyazzat Bekish for helping in idea generation, gene construct, and tackling the problems that we faced last year.
Laboratory of Materials Processing and Applied Physics.
Dr. Timur Atabaev and Dr. Anara Molkenova for helping us with the synthesis of CQDs and providing us with cuvettes for UV-vis measurements.
Dr. Anna Andreeva for providing us with advice and reagents regarding PCR reactions.
Dr. Aigerim Soltabayeva for consulting us about the improvement of primers design and gel extraction.
Zhenis Zhangaliyev for helping us with Human Practices.

Wiki support

Thanks to Alibi Aitenov for taking team photos. Thanks to Akerke Sybankulova for taking laboratory photos.
Special thanks to our web designer, Meruyert.
Thanks to Togzhan Ibragimova for designing our team’s logo.
Appreciate the help of Dana Ryspayeva for illustrations on the wiki.
Thanks to Alisher Berdikul for the animation video.
Thanks to Saadat Nursultan for helping us with Wiki design.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the official partner of iGEM 2019 Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) for 20 kb of free custom DNA and our official sponsor Nazarbayev University for making iGEM possible. Thanks to Twist for providing us lab reagents important for PCR reaction.
We want to thank the school officers Guldana Yessetova and Maya Davletova, who prepared all the documentation needed and our parents who supported us. We wouldn’t finish our project on time without her help.

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