Acknowledgements
We would like to sincerely thank all of our sponsors and supporting faculty. Our project would not have been possible without your time and assistance. Our team t-shirts feature the logos of our sponsoring companies to show our appreciation of sponsorships. We will be recognizing all faculty involved later in the quarter.
EMD CHEMICALS - Shou Wong
Corresponded with Shou who promised to meet with team in August and to potentially set up sponsorship with EMD Millipore.
EPOCH LIFE SCIENCES - XueNong Zhang
Sponsorship of 1000 DNA Spin Columns
NEB - Lori Tonello
Sponsorship of Biobrick Kits, Antarctic Phosphotase, Chitin Rhodamine, Taq polymerase, 1kb DNA ladder, DpnI and pMAL
PROMEGA - Sara Mann
Nominal amount of free products and additional discounts on petri dishes, pipet tips, Nova Blue cells, T4 DNA Ligase, pour boats, nuclease free water, gloves, biohazard bags, delicate wipers, serological pipets, 1.7 mL tubes, and agar.
QIAGEN - Jackie Ciardo
Discounts on miniprep kits, gel extraction kits, and PCR purification kits.
VWR - Amy Vanarsdale
Additional discounts on petri dishes, pipet tips, Nova Blue cells, T4 DNA Ligase, pour boats, nuclease free water, gloves, biohazard bags, delicate wipers, serological pipets, 1.7 mL tubes, and agar.
Advisors
John Mordacq
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Program in Biological Sciences
Email: j-mordacq@northwestern.edu
Joshua Leonard
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Email: j-leonard@northwestern.edu
Michael Jewett
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Email: m-jewett@northwestern.edu
NU Faculty and Affiliates
Debora Boetcher McCormick Biological and Chemical Engineering, Office Assistant Email: d-boetcher@northwestern.edu Contribution: Assisted with logistics such as billing and receiving of products.
Paul Brannon Biological Imaging Facilities, Confocal Specialist Biology, University of Chicago Email: p-brannon@northwestern.edu Room: Hogan 5-150 Contribution: Trained team members for confocal microscopy operation and made suggestions on how to integrate confocal microscopy into our project.
Jamie Bufkin Biological Imaging Facilities, Program Assistant Sociology & History, University of San Diego Email: j-bufkin@northwestern.edu Room: Hogan 5-150 Contribution: Set up confocal training for team members.
Sara Fernandez Dunne High Throughput Analysis Lab, Research Technologist II
Northwestern University Email: s-fernandez@northwestern.edu Room: Hogan 4-140 Contribution: trained team members for plate reader and made suggestions on how to integrate the plate reader into our project.
John F. Marko Professor Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology; Physics & Astronomy PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: john-marko@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-1276 Room: Pancoe Rm 4109 Contribution: Discussed using Keio knockout collection.
Linda Mattice Yale University Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology E. Coli Keio Knockout Collection Distributor Email: cgsc@yale.edu Contribution: Send us Keio Collection ydgG knockout cells.
William Russin Biological Imaging Facilities, Manager PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison Email: w-russin@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-6657 Room: Hogan 5-150 Contribution: Discussed microscopy options for our project and integrated confocal microscopy into our project.
Margaret (Peggy) Saks Research Professor, The Uhlenbeck Lab Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology Email: m-saks@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5624 Room: Pancoe Rm 4113 Times: 10:30am-end Contribution: Discussed chiA, tqsA knockout procedures.
Wei Zhang Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD Candidate Aaron Packman Lab Interests: Flow and biofilm interaction and microbial communities in biofilms. Email: w-zhang@u.northwestern.edu Contribution: Discussed potential use of flow cells to form a biofilm.
Laurie Zoloth Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Professor of Medical Humanities & Bioethics and Religion Director of Center for Bioethics, Science and Society Interests: Ethics in Genetic Medicine, in Stem Cell Research, Justice in health care allocation Email: lzoloth@northwestern.edu Contribution: Discussed ethics of synthetic biology and made suggestions on potential essay topics.
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