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, crowdfunding of $2355 from 28 backers

Past teams:

University of Hawai’i, Manoa 2008 – plasmid backbone/shuttling vector
University of California, Davis 2012 – wiki 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, guru of laboratory protocols and equipment
Kelley Tuel – advisor, extremophile expert, presentation coach

Team:


For the most part, we worked on everything together. Each member was "in charge" of a certain aspect. They oversaw the completion of their section by soliciting the help of others or doing it themselves.

Alec – presentation, safety, fun
Amy – notebook, social media
Austin – wiki
Corinne – materials/methods, achievements, safety, laboratory design of primers for site-directed mutagenesis, middle school camp councilor
Dylan – poster, outreach, middle school camp councilor
Mason – problems/solutions, future, computer modeling (Tinkercell, jmol)
Muriel – general editing, middle school camp councilor