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TEAM ALBERTA

Sponsors

University of Alberta Office of the Provost

The University executives have again shown themselves to be continually committed to being the world’s best university in every possible regard by generously supporting our team.

Alberta Innovates Technology Futures

The provincial government of Alberta has been aggressively supporting the growth of emerging technologies working towards a clean, sustainable future. We thank the government for giving us the resources we needed to flourish and continued support throughout our project.

National Institute for Nanotechnology

Th institute located directly on the university campus was a great support financially. By supporting synthetic biology in its early stages of development sets the path to be able to combine it with nanotechnology for a better future.

University of Alberta Faculty of Engineering

We thank this faculty for being a major supporter of our endeavours. The faculty of engineering is committed to being the forefront of technologies that combine rational design with biology.

IDT

We would thank IDT for all the in kind donations synthesizing DNAS usied in our project.

Cedar Lane Labs

This life science company gave us a large cash donation as part of their continued commitment to giving back to the community and promoting new advancements in emerging fields of science. Cedarlane labs specializes in supplying laboratory reagents particularly in the field of immunology.

Pharmamatrix

Project pharmamatix is a joint venture between Alberta health services and the University of Alberta to design new advanced drugs. The Pharmamatrix project supported our team financially because they recognize the potential synthetic biology holds to the pharmaceutical world.

Medicine Hat College

We would like to thank this post secondary institution for supporting our team. We hope to compete against this school in future iGEM competitions

TaKaRa and Clonetech

This company generously donated all the taq polymerase the team used throughout our project. The university of Alberta igem team was powered by TaKaRa’s e2 taq polymerase one of the most affordable and reliable taqs in the market.

BioAlberta

Thanks to this industry association for donating monies to our team and continuously working to promote the growth of the life sciences industries within Alberta.

University of Alberta Department of Pharmacology

We thank the department of pharmacology for their continued support providing a stipend to send a student to the jambouree.

University of Alberta Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

We thank this department for providing us with financial support, our lab to work in, and the much appreciated help of the great support staff.

University of Alberta Department of Cell Biology

We appreciate the monies donated to help with lab expenses and travel stipends to supporting the many students on our team studying within this department.

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New England BioLabs

We thank New England biolabs for all the discounts and in kind donations on reagents and enzymes used throughout the project.