Attributions
We are proud to say that all the ideas we worked on this year were proposed by undergraduate members of iGEM 2018 team TokyoTech.
We also want to thank all those advisors and instructors who helped us discuss these ideas and guided us through doing the experiments.
Members
Performing all cloning (transformation, culture cells, mini prep)
Hayato Ito, Moe Takahashi, Kotaro Miyamoto, Soh Tsuruta, Akito Machida, Hajime Fujita
Performing parts construction (restriction digest, ligation)
Hayato Ito, Moe Takahashi, Kotaro Miyamoto, Soh Tsuruta, Akito Machida, Hajime Fujita
Performing Assays
Hayato Ito, Moe Takahashi, Kotaro Miyamoto, Soh Tsuruta, Akito Machida, Hajime Fujita
Modeling
Ryoga Misu, Kazuya Isawa, Tharachai Nattanon, Hajime Fujita
Wiki and slide design
Kazuya Isawa, Tharachai Nattanon, Takato Saito, Moe Takahashi, Ryoga Misu, Soh Tsuruta, Hajime Fujita
Human Practices
Kazuya Isawa, Moe Takahashi, Soh Tsuruta, Takato Saito, Hinako Kataoka, Eriko Deguchi, Hajime Fujita
General Support
Dr. Tagawa let us use their labs for all of our experiments and gave us advice on experimental skills.
Dr. Hayashi gave us advice on our project and helped us set up a forum.
Dr. Yamamura gave us advice on modeling.
Dr. Nishida, Dr. Yasuda, Ms. Hasegawa, Mr. Nakazawa, Mr. Rodenburg gave us generous advisory support.
Promega Corporation and Leave a Nest Co.,ltd gave us several kinds of restriction enzymes used in our experiments at no charge.
We would like to thank all advisors and instructors who helped us through the discussion of these ideas and instructed us about experimental procedures.
Gene Synthesis
We'd like to thank IDT and Eurofins Genomics.
Human Practice Support
Koshigaya-Kita High School warmly accepted our school visits.
Dr. Nukuzuma from Environ. and Health Res. Lab., City of Kobe and Dr. Suzuki from National Institute of Infectious Diseases gave us new perspectives about virus detection methods and enhanced our understanding about virology.