From 2007.igem.org

The Edinburgh iGEM 2007 Team declares that:

• Both projects were conceived and designed by the student team

members within the time course of the project.

• All modelling and design work was performed by the students.

• All laboratory work was performed by the students with the following exceptions:

RT-PCR of COMT from alfalfa was attempted by Lucy Montgomery, an undergraduate Honours student who worked with the team for a part of the project period.

Attempts to transform Lactobacillus and Streptococcus (unsuccessful) and Bacillus (successful) with tpTG262-RFP were performed mainly by Chris French (Instructor).

Mutation of the PstI sites in the crtIB BioBrick, assembly of the crtEIB, lacZ-sam8 and sam8-sam5 composite BioBricks, and preliminary TLC experiments to detect vanillin pathway intermediates, were performed mainly by Chris French (Instructor).

Initial fluorescence microscopy was performed by a colleague of Alistair Elfick (Instructor).