Team:Technion-Israel/Attributions
Advisors
We would like to thank our advisors, who have supported us from the very beginning, both professionally and morally. We are deeply thankful for all the time and effort they have invested in our project, mentoring us with patience and professionality.
We would like to thank our principal investigator- Prof. Roee Amit, our lab manager- Dr. Orna Atar, and finally, our mentors- Tzila Davidov, Liron Abrahami Pachuk and Noa Eden.
Special thanks to the people from Prof. Roee Amit’s lab, who have provided us with advice and support.
General Support
We are sincerely grateful to the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, for hosting and providing us with the best conditions for our work.
Project Support
A special thanks to Yehuda Wexler, a 2017 iGEM Technion member, that accompanied us throughout the journey, always willing to help and enlighten us.Prof. Ayelet Fishman who helped us especially in the early stages and encouraged throughout the whole project.
Dr. Iris Yedidia and Dr. Victoria Soroker from the Israel Volcani center, and Dr. Yael Mandelik from the Hebrew University for introducing us to the variety and the uniqueness of the flower nectar.
Dr. Ophir Menashe, the CEO and founder of BioCastle, for the significant donation of Bio-Castle capsules.
Dr. Alexander Goroshit from Zuf Globus, who had introduced us to different types of nectar, and the bees' role in honey production.
Alexey Tomsov who has guided us in working with Bacillus subtilis.
Lab Support
Ilana Obcharenko and Dina Shahar from Prof. Sima Yaron's lab, for providing us with equipment and sterilizing it for us.Dr. Sarah Goldberg and the people from Prof. Roee Amit's lab, who lent us equipment, materials, and devices.
Dr. Smadar Shulami and Rotem Faygenboim-Ornai from Prof. Yuval Shoham's lab for providing us with the equipment and the information regarding the SDS-PAGE system and process.
Dr. Zohar Ben-Barak Zelas, Batel Deri and Sivan Gelley from Prof. Ayelet Fishman's lab, for consulting us and constantly providing us with astonishing professional skills, materials, and tools.
Fadia Zichnon from Prof. Amram Mor's lab for providing us with laboratory equipment.
Zoya Ruzin for providing us with equipment.
Assoc. Prof. Boaz Mizrahi and Alona Shagan for consulting us and giving us the opportunity of using their lyophilizer device for protein concentration.
Ofer Printz-Setter from Assoc. Prof. Esther Segal's lab for teaching us to use the sonicator device.
Oren Bar-Bachar and Matan Meirovich from Dr. Omer Yehezkeli's lab, for providing us commercial enzymes when we needed them urgently.
Dr. Maya Davidovich - Pinhas's lab for letting us use their devices.
Prof. Marcelle Machluf's lab for providing us their devices and working space.
Prof. Ben-Zion Levi's lab for providing us their devices and working space.
Dani Shahar from BioAnalytics Ltd for loaning us a new pH-meter.
Prof. Yoav Livney for providing us fructose, which was crucial for our tests.
Prof. Oded Kleifeld and Dr. Tali Lavie, for the professional help in separation and identification of proteins and the His-Tag columns they have supplied us.
Prof. Timor Baasov and Mr. Oleg Chmelnik for the professional guidance regarding separation and identification of sugars.
Prof. Esther Meyron-Holtz, Miss. Adi Shevach and Mr. Lior Spektor for the guidance and equipment provided to perform Western-Blot assay.
Modeling Support
Special thanks to Prof. Arnon Henn for being a great advisor and mentor.
Prof. Tomer Shlomi for assisting us regarding the enzymes’ kinetics.
Faris Horani and Bader Bader for their support and advice.
Lena Danielli from Ramez Daniel's lab for her great and useful advice regarding the modeling of our synthetic circuit.
Wiki Support
The wiki establishment was a great challenge for the team since none of us has experienced it before.
We would like to thank especially Mai Eshel, the wiki designer of iGEM Technion 2017, for her help and availability.
Human Practices Support
Special thanks to Bazan cooperation, Haifa Municipality, the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Dean of Students Office and Noar Shocher Mada for their assistance and donations throughout the iGEMthon.
We would like to thank Noam Keidar who has guided us professionally throughout the planning of the iGEMthon.
Anat Shaer and her team for helping us reach out to high school students and assisting us with the registration for the event.
Our lectures in the iGEMthon- Prof. Yoav Livney, Dr. Yoav Medan and Shahar Polak.
And finally, for our mentors throughout the event- Yossi Barkai, Yoni Segev, Yehuda Wexler, Shilo Ohayon, Tal Naor, Rebeca Feldman, Noa Eden, Mai Eshel, Noam Keidar, Shani Glatshtein, Adi Yanai, Tzila Davidov, Liron Abrahami, Or Yair, Anat Stav, Naor Grenik, Sagit Goldberg, Riki Brokman.
We would also like to thank our judges Prof. Roee Amit, Dr. Georgy Meikove and Kirill Dedul.
Financial Support
We would like to thank all the companies listed below, who have generously supported us by providing essential lab equipment and materials, as well as for helping us with the iGEMthon event. We would especially like to thank The Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology for sponsoring our trip to Boston and making all of this project possible.
