Team:Nottingham/Attributions
Attributions and
Acknowledgements
This year was a success and a joy for all of our team to work on. However, it would not have been possible without the generous help of a large team of people.
Attributions and
Adknowledgments
Our Advisory Team
Our supervisors were invaluable, offering support from start to finish.
Principal Investigators
Prof. Nigel Minton – The esteemed king of CBS and our glorious leader.
Dr Ruth Griffin - She is an absolute Wonder Woman, asking exactly the right questions to improve our project.
Supervisors
Miss Louise Dynes and Ms. Jacqueline Minton – This dynamic duo were always there to help us with anything, from fundraising ideas to editing our press releases and booking our trip to Boston.
Dr Carmen McLeod – Without her help human practices would have been lost to us.
Dr Andrew Dempster – Andrew’s creative talents were a god send for everything from logos and creating a pub quiz.
Dr Maria Zygouropoulou – lead the BotR group. Her work ethic, commitment and ever-lasting patience make us all look up to her with starry eyes.
Mr Franҫois Seys – Lead the Acetone vector group. He’s just the bomb. With a fantastic work ethic and calm head in the face of a crisis; he is the student we aspire to be.
Dr Jonathan Humphreys – Lead the Acetone detection group. He is such a chilled character, and always up to just “get it done”.
Dr Nicole Pearcy - She is an absolute delight to work with, helping the modellers through every hardship that they encountered.
Dr Thomas Millat – He seems to know about everything, on the Chase he would be called: Top Lad.
Dr Terry Bilverstone – After being dragged away from us, he fought his way back to be by our sides.
Dr Rupert Norman - We are very grateful for his help into the modelling side of things.
Our Sponsors
All of our sponsors were crucial to the support of Nottingham iGEM 2019.
The following sponsors are part of our Gold Sponsorship group:
The University of Nottingham, Synthetic Biology Research Centre - Nottingham, the Wellcome trust, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Don Whitley, Nottingham GI and Liver Disorders Theme of NIHR and the Nottingahm Digestive Diseases Centre.
The following sponsors are part of our Silver Sponsorship group.
Qiagen, Pro-pak foods, Rapid electronics and Porton Biopharma.
The following sponsors are part of our Bronze Sponsorship group
Promega, Labfolder, Snapgene, BMG lab tech, New England Biolabs and the Twinkle Factory.
Outreach Partners
One of the most rewarding experiences of iGEM was being able to speak to a variety of groups about our project and spread the message of iGEM and food safety.
Wonder festival – Run by the University of Nottingham for the public, we got our first taste of inspiring children to enjoy science.
STEM festival – Bluecoat Beechdale academy gave us the opportunity to connect with secondary school students and explain the wonders of DNA and bacteria.
Summer School – organised by the University of Nottingham,and run by Pippa Strong allowed us to help in a lab session run for A-level students. Giving us the chance to explain the opportunity iGEM could give them; expressing our passion for the project and its future.
Food Safety Posters – We created a poster to be distributed to nearby student accommodation, explaining how to protect them from the dangers of food poisoning. We would like to thank Student Roost for agreeing to display the posters for their occupants.
Press release – We want to thank the newsletters, papers and magazines that allowed us to write an article for them. The the School of Life sciences newsletter, Notts in focus, impact magazine, Nottingham local news.
Field Experts
We would like to thank these people for the advice and experience they allowed us to tap into.
Prof. Mike Peck – A consultant microbiologist for QIB Extra, Mr Botulinum himself visited. He gave us the idea of doing a sporogenes growth curve in carrot juice, among other things.
Prof. Liz Sockett FRS – Liz helped us understand the scientific community and how to create a snappy press release even offering to read and edit it on top of her packed schedule. Furthermore, she gave us a ton of advice on life as a scientist and how to choose a PhD.
Dr Greg Jones – Representing Campden BRI, he gave us some key insight into the inner workings of the Clostridium botulinum challenge testing done for food manufacturers.
Mr David Raine – The Technical director for Pro-pak foods gave us a guided tour of the facilities and an interview to answer all of our questions. He helped us to understand the process of protecting ready meals from Clostridium botulinum.
Mr Oliver Carney – An applications specialist, sent by BMG Lab Tech, kindly agreed to show us how to work their CLARIOstar plate reader, as well as get us some black plates to read fluorescence on.
Dr Christian Klumpner - He supported us greatly in the building of our electronic nose by giving us the know how in putting a circuit together and developing it.
Mr Edward Kujawinski - He gave us access to an electronics workshop in the EEE department, as well as some basic parts for the nose.
Mr James Haley - The Business Development Manager for Rapid electronics, was a key coordinator as we got components for the electronic nose.
Not to Mention...
We would like to thank our friends, family and all of the team in the labs for their unending support and encouragement start till finish. Its people like you who make the world go around and Nottingham iGEM succeed. We would also like to thank all of those who contributed to our various fundraisers, especially the Johnson Arms who were our gracious hosts for the pub quiz.
iGEM Nottingham 2019