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.
| 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.
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| 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.
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| Evelyn Fitzgerald at [http://www.brand.de/en Brand] for the free samples of 96-well plates, plate seals, and PCR tubes.
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| 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.
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| Simon Morgan at [http://www.qiagen.com/ Qiagen] for the free QIAprep Spin miniprep, QIAquick PCR purification and QIAquick gel Extraction kits.
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| 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.
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| Renata Almeida (previously) at [http://www.bioline.com/ Bioline] for the free samples of Hyper and Easy DNA ladders, VELOCITY DNA polymerase and T-shirt sponsorship.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Vanessa Talbot at [http://www.eppendorf.co.uk/ Eppendorf] for the loan of a Thermomixer.
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| Neil Cox at [http://www.bmglabtech.com BMG Labtech] for the loan of an amazing FLUOstar Optima plate reader.
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| 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].
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Hilde Moseby at [http://www.starlab.co.uk/ Starlab] for the generous discount on ErgoOne pipettors.
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