Acknowledgements

Thanks to Macquarie University , the MQ Biomolecular Frontiers Research Centre and U@MQ for funding and support, without which we would never have been able to enter into the iGEM competition, be able to travel to America in November. And thanks for the team shirts which we will gladly wear to represent our team in representing Macquarie University at MIT.

A big thanks to Associate Professor Rob Willows , the man behind the project, Dr Nicolle Packer for all your support and a special thanks to Dr Louise Brown for all of her organisation, time, support and effort in the team and competition and as an awesome lecturer.

Thanks to our wiki expert Manish K Sharma for all of his help and efforts on the wiki.

And thanks to Karl Hassan for coming to Jamboree with the team!

Thanks to Yagiz Alp Aksoy and Hilal Varinli , for all of the hours spent in the lab, your awesome laboratory skills and brains! We really appreciate your hard work over these months.

Thanks to Joanna Hare , Olga Ibrahim , Katie Mackenzie and Sangeev Santhirasegaram for your team work and effort on the Genetically Engineered Machine project.

And finally to Yagiz , Hilal , Joanna and Olga for flying over to Boston to represent the Macquarie University team at iGEM Jamboree 2010!