Team:UiOslo Norway/Attributions
Groundwork
First, we would like to thank the University of Oslo for offering students the opportunity to be part of the iGEM experience by adding a special course to the elective curricula (course code: MBV4910IGEM). The course covers two semesters and is evaluated on a pass or fail basis. There are no supporting course materials, for this course as it consists of a student-driven interdisciplinary project in synthetic biology. The course starts in February and finishes in October after the team attends the Giant Jamboree in Boston.
We started the brainstorming process in the beginning of February and had a clear project idea by the end of March, thanks to the article published by Srivastava et al. on bacteria-powered solar cells, which we drew inspiration from. In April we started planning the lab work and experiments and got in contact with the first experts and possible sponsors. The actual lab work started in May and continued until the middle of October. Now we are looking forward to being part of the Jamboree and meeting all of the other teams.
Second, we are aware that we could not have come this far without the constant support of the of an amazing group of people that we were lucky to meet, collaborate and directly work with, which are listed below and on the page dedicated for sponsors. We hope that we have managed to include everyone and would like to apologize if we forgot to mention someone.
General support
We want to thank all of our supervisors for helping us with constructive feedback and support. Without Athanasios Saragliadis, Dirk Linke, Kirsten B. Haraldsen, Finn-Eirik Johansen and Paul Grini this project would not have succeeded. We want to give a special thanks to Athanasios Saragliadis for all the hours he patiently used to help us out in the lab.
Finally, we want to mention that all the student team members contributed to every part of the project and did an outstanding job. We are a rather small team and all members showed interest and dedication to the project. We all have been in the lab and written on the wiki, but in the beginning of our project we divided responsibilities to let the ball start rolling:
Alec: lab planning and coordination
Bianca: wiki coding and design
Kristin: sponsors and integrated human practices
Linnea: collaborations and social media
Marthe: collaborations and outreach
Prabin: sponsors and integrated human practices
Simen: wiki coding and lab planning
Lab support
Thanks to all the people that have been listening to our problems in the lab, given us advice and supported us with materials.
Kenneth Schneider: advising with the fabrication of the solar cell
Per Andreas Hansen: feedback on our earliest idea in the very beginning of our project
Alexander G Ulyashin: present insight on how solar cells work, and provide us with materials for our prototype through SINTEF
Ola Nilsen and Elina Melteig: helping us with the protocol for building our solar cell and providing materials
Maria Chiara Di Luca: help navigating the lab and provide general support
Roy Falleth: material preparation
Per Eugene Kristiansen: lending instruments for use
Evogene group: general advice and support for the project
Wiki and design support
We want to thank everyone that lent us a helpful hand when we were stuck in the wiki coding or designing our extras.
Dan Michael Heggø: help with wiki coding
Åslaug Brynildsen: advice regarding outreach and taking our pictures
Åsmund H. Eikenes: brainstorming different aspects of our project
Bjørn Haugland: training and support with Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
@ajlkn from HTML5 UP: the creative mind behind the site template we used as inspiration
US AFRL Carroll HS Team: very informative series of Youtube videos, that helped us better understand how to start building a wiki page
Karoline Moe: poster feedback