Team:iTesla-SoundBio/Attributions
Attributions
Advisors
Our advisors Zach Mueller, Yoshitaka Goto, Anastasia Nicolov, and Alan Bohn for giving us tips, feedback, and guidance on wetlab, project design, and more!
Project Support and Advice
Dr. Daniel Ziegler from Ohio State University for helping us with our design and kindly giving us Bacillus strains and workable integration vectors!
Karen McClymont, Lab Specialist at Clinnovate Health and former doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow, for her advice on the feasibility of our project and help understanding the challenges of working with Factor C!
Dr. NG Wai-Chuen from the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department of Hong Kong for helping us learn more about horseshoe crab populations in Asia and the effect of harvesting!
Dr. Thomas Novitsky, CEO of Cape Cod Biosystems, Inc. for helping us better understand the details about the role of Factor C and recombinant Factor C in testing for endotoxins!
Tiffany H. Black, Biologist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, for her help in understanding the ethical issues in medical testing on animals and how we can help with the conservation of horseshoe crabs!
Mark Botton and Paul Shin, Co-Chairs of the IUCN SSC Horseshoe Crab Specialist Group for their help with understanding fishing/harvesting policies in the United States and Asia!
Dr. David Hussong from ValSource, LLC for the assistance in understanding the conditions that cause an LAL test to project a false positive/negative!
Brenda R from the Division of Drug Information of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for assistance in understanding FDA protocols, drug regulations, and LAL testing!
Thank you to Jay Yung and Washington iGEM for letting us use their plate readers for the InterLab Study!
Difficult Technique Support
Thank you to Judy Nguyen from Tacoma RAINmakers and Angel Wong from Washington iGEM!
Wiki Support
Thank you William Kwok from the Washington iGEM team!
Presentation Support
Thank you to Angel Wong and Andrew Hu from the Washington iGEM team and everyone who attended the PNW iGEM Meetup for helping us improve our presentation and poster!
Thanks and acknowledgements to all other people involved in helping our team!