Thanks

We thank everyone who provided funding, technical support, laboratory space, materials, instrumentation, and guidance to our project.

Khare Lab, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

  • Dr. Sagar D. Khare, Faculty advisor.
  • Nancy Hernandez, Graduate Student advisor.
  • William Hansen, Graduate Student advisor.
  • Elliott Dolan, for help with computational kinetics.
  • Dr. Brahm Yachnin, for help with activity assay development.
  • Kristin Blacklock, for wetlab advice.
  • Manasi Pethe, for wetlab advice.
  • Lu Yang, for wetlab advice.
  • Jason Lin, for assistance developing computational kinetics model.
  • Dimitri Zorine, for helpful discussions.
  • Kassidy Baum, for laboratory support.

Departments at Rutgers

Individuals

  • Dr. Guy Montelione, Dr. Rong Xiao, Ryan Woltz, Christopher Kim, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, for help with and contributions of bio-layer interferometry, size-exclusion chromatography.
  • Dr. Vikas Nanda, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, for help with and contributions of dynamic light scattering.
  • Dr. Wei Dai, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, for contributing laboratory space and advice on electron microscopy.
  • Ileana Marrero-Berrios, Department of Biomedical Engineering, for help with ELISA development.
  • Dr. Joe Marcotrigiano, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, for contributing the use of his microplate reader.
  • Dr. Torgny Gustafsson, Viacheslav Manichev, Department of Physics and Astronomy, for contributing helium-ion microscopy.
  • Dr. Ki Bum Lee, Dr. Hyeon-Yeol Cho, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, for contributing atomic force microscopy.
  • Dr. Sang-Hyuk Lee, Matthew Putnins, Department of Physics and Astronomy, for contributing fluorescent microscopy.
  • Dr. Raj Patel, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Pathology Core Imaging Lab, for help with transmission electron microscopy.
  • Dr. Lawrence Wackett, Dr. Tony Dodge, University of Minnesota Department of Biochemistry, for plasmids containing atzA, atzB, atzC genes isolated from Pseudomonas sp. pADP; plasmids pMD4::atzA, pAAJLS3, and atzC plasmid; and for help with activity assay development.
  • Dr. Gail Arnold, Institute of Quantitative Biomedicine, for help with setting up the 15th Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology Multi-lab Seminar.
  • Dr. John Chodera, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, for SRC_HUMAN_D0 plasmid and YopH plasmid. See Parton et al. 2016. BioRxiv. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/038711.
  • Barry Li, for designing logo.
  • Yasir Jawaid, Graphic Design Junction, for design elements.