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