Attributions

Academic and Corporate Supporters:

• Integrated DNA Technologies – making primers
• Qiagen – plasmid extraction kit
• New England Biolab – competent cells, restriction enzymes, Gibson Assembly kit
• Microyza – facilitated community donations

Past teams:

• University of Hawai’i, Manoa 2008 – plasmid backbone/shuttling vector
• University of California, Davis 2012 – website format

Mentors:

• Dr. Aron Fenton, KUMC – provided laboratory space, materials, equipment, and experience
• Qingling Tang, KUMC – laboratory technician, helped make the primers for site-directed mutagenesis

Teachers:

• Eric Kessler – images, team coordinator
• Joseph Whalen – solicitor, laboratory organizer
• Kelley Tuel – advisor, extremophile expert, presentation coach

Team:

• Alec – presentation
• Amy – notebook, social media
• Austin – wiki
• Corinne – materials/methods and safety
• Dylan – poster, outreach
• Mason – problems/solutions, computer modeling (Tinkercell, jmol)
• Muriel – attributions