Partners

The University of Cambridge iGEM team and organisers would like to thank the following organisations for their support and for their interest in the iGEM competition and Synthetic Biology.

Dry Consumables

	Alex Orda at [http://www.anachem.co.uk/ Anachem] for the free supply of EarthSaver pipette tips, freezer boxes and the very snazzy IsoFreeze racks.
	Russell Golson (and Richard Hudson) at [http://www.biosilta.com/ BioSilta] for the trial packs of EnBase™ Flo culture media, 24 deep well plates for high throughput bacterial culture and T-shirt sponsorship.
	Evelyn Fitzgerald at [http://www.brand.de/en Brand] for the free samples of 96-well plates, plate seals, and PCR tubes.
	Frank Kensy at [http://www.m2p-labs.com/ m2p labs] for the free samples of 48 Well-Flowerplates for small-scale, high throughput bacterial cell culture.
	Simon Morgan at [http://www.qiagen.com/ Qiagen] for the free QIAprep Spin miniprep, QIAquick PCR purification and QIAquick gel Extraction kits.
	Alison Ingram and John Pickering at [http://www.sterilin.co.uk/ Sterilin Limited] for the supply of microbiological sterile plastic ware, T-shirt sponsorship on the company’s 50th anniversary.

Wet Consumables

	Renata Almeida at [http://www.bioline.com/ Bioline] for the free samples of Hyper and Easy DNA ladders, VELOCITY DNA polymerase and T-shirt sponsorship.
	Ian Rushton at [http://www.cambio.co.uk/ Cambio] for the free samples of T5 Exonuclease used by the Cambridge team for Gibson DNA assembly.
	Lauren Dyer and Phil Dobson at [http://www.bioscience.co.uk/ Cambridge Biosciences] for providing The Zymo Research Zyppy plasmid miniprep and Zymoclean sample kits.
	Ya-Chi Chen at [http://www.takara-bio.com/ Takara]/[http://www.clontech-europe.com/ Clontech] for the very useful Sprint Advantage Single shot DNA polymerase PCR kit and Micro PCR tubes.
	Rebecca Shilton and Euan Forbes at [http://www.fermentas.co.uk/ Fermentas] for once again supplying FastDigest restriction enzymes for BioBrick assembly, T4 DNA ligase and T-shirt sponsorship.
	Edward Bagenal and Davin Miller at [http://www.neb.com/ New England BioLabs] for a very generous supply of free Finnzymes Phusion High-Fidelity DNA polymerase, Thermus aquaticus (Taq) DNA ligase and dNTPs used by the Cambridge team for Gibson DNA assembly, as well as DNA ladders and gel loading dyes.

Lab Equipment

	Tessa Hargrove at [http://www.bibby-scientific.com/ Bibby Scientific] for the loan of a Techne TC plus PCR machine, a nifty Techne NoIce and T-shirt sponsorship.
	Vanessa Talbot at [http://www.eppendorf.co.uk/ Eppendorf] for the loan of a Thermomixer.
	Andrew Birnie at [http://www.gri.co.uk/ GRI] for the loan of a GeneTechnologies [http://www.gstorm.co.uk/gene G-storm PCR cycler].
	Miles Collier at [http://www.invitrogen.com/ Invitrogen] for the loan of a Safe Imager™ 2.0 Blue light Transilluminator and an E-Gel® Safe Imager™ Real-Time Transilluminator. The Cambridge team trialed E-Gel® EX pre-cast gels.
	Glynis Johnson and Antony Longhurst at [http://www.labtech.co.uk/ Labtech International] for organising the loan of a NanoDrop 2000 and a Quanta Biotech Q-cycler II Standard Thermal cycler.
	Hilde Moseby at [http://www.starlab.co.uk/ Starlab] for the generous discount on ErgoOne pipettors.

Sequencing and Assembly

	Mike Cottie at [http://www.biolegio.com/ Biolegio BV] for organising free oligo synthesis.
	Jeremy Minshull and colleagues at [http://www.dna20.com/ DNA2.0] for once again the very generous offer of free DNA synthesis.
	Stephanie McHugh at [http://www.geneservice.co.uk/services/sequencing/ Source Bioscience/Geneservice] for once again organising free DNA sequencing.

Other Support

The following companies helped us out with funding or other activities

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