Team:Lund/Attributions
We are very thankful for all the people that helped us in our project. Without them project Cure-li would not have happened, thank you!
Dr. Johan Svensson Bonde
Researcher at the Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry
He was our PI and without him iGEM Lund 2021 would not have been able to complete the project. He was the only instructor this year and supported us throughout the project.
Dr. Cedric Dicko
Associate Professor at the Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry
Helped us tremendously with curli measurements, including the protocols and analysis of the results.
Dr. Zack Abbot
PhD in Microbiology and Immunology, Entrepreneur, CEO and founder of ZBiotics
Discussed the marketing aspects of the potential product and some lab discussions about colonization and L. reuteri.
Dr. Srikkanth Balasubramanian
PhD in Microbiology, Researcher at TU Delft
Insight on MC4100 E.coli strain and how to obtain curli and aid in the search of MC4100 -CsgA.
Dr. Anne Farewell
PhD and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Gothenburg
Provided our team with the curli-producing E. coli strain MC4100.
Johan Furuhjelm
Student at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Edited the iGETHICS and presentation video. Created the iGETHICS intro.
Erik Hartman
Founder of SynthEthics
Provided helpful feedback to our article published on the SynthEthics platform.
Dr. Michela Lizier
Lab technician, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital
Gifted us the plasmid pTRKH3-ermGFP (Addgene plasmid # 27169 ; http://n2t.net/addgene:27169 ; RRID:Addgene_27169)
Fredrik Lund
PhD student at division of Applied Microbiology at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University, LTH
Lent a microscope and a Neubauer chamber to the lab to carry on a few experiments.
Dr. Georg Meisl
PhD in Biophysical Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Reviewed our approach to modelling the inhibitors. Gave us critical approaches to modelling chaperones.
Dr. Anne Meyer
PhD in Biological Sciences, Associate Professor at University of Rochester
Shared insight on MC4100 E.coli strain and how to obtain curli and aid in the search of MC4100 -CsgA.
Martin Palm
PhD student at the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Gothenburg
Provided our team with the curli-producing E. coli strain MC4100.
Jordi Riera i Alsina
Chief Business Development Officer at AB-BIOTICS
Explained their products related with the gut-brain axis; how they are made, acceptance in the market, dose etc.
Dr. Stefan Roos
Senior Microbiologist BioGaia AB; Professor, adjunct, Food Biotechnology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Provided helpful comments concerning the pTKRH3 plasmid.
Manuel Alejandro Ruiz Mejia
Research Student at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Provided our team with the L. reuteri DSM 20016 strain and lent us some useful material.
Lovisa Wallman
M.Sc. in Biotechnology Engineering, Molecular Biotechnology
Provided our team with digested inserts and pET11a plasmid to use as controls.
Dr. Puwei Yuan
Project Leader at NeoX
Shared in depth insight in how to cultivate the MC4100 E.coli strain and obtain curli.
Sponsors
We are very grateful for all of our sponsors and thank them immensely for what they have done for us.
Faculty of Engineering at Lund university
Educational institution
They provided us with funding. Which made sure we were able to realise our project.
LMK foundation
Foundation focused on funding projects with a interdisciplinary scientific research.
They provided us with funding. Which made sure we were able to realise our project.
IDT (Integrated DNA Technologies)
Company that creates custom DNA parts
Provided us with free DNA base pairs that allowed us to execute our lab.
Twist Bioscience
Company that creates custom DNA parts
Provided us with free DNA base pairs that allowed us to execute our lab.
Benchling
Online software for designing, recording and analyzing experiments.
Provided us with the opportunity to document our lab work in the online notebook as well as a tool for analyzing our sequences.