Team:LMU-TUM Munich/Sponsors
Our Sponsors
Without the generous support of our universities, related organizations and many biotech companies our project would not at all have been feasable. We are deeply greatful for the big interest in supporting young stundents in realizing their own projects.
Academic Sponsors
Ludwig Maximilians Univerity Munich
Technical University Munich
GRK2062 - Molecular Principles of Synthetic Biology
Chair for biological chemistry- Prof. Dr. Skerra
LMU Faculty for biology
Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan
Lehre at LMU
Bund der Freunde - TUM
TUM Department of Chemistry
CIPSM
BioM
Industry Sponsors
IDT - Integrated DNA Technologies
[http://www.idtdna.com IDT] is the largest manufacturer of custom oligo products in the US today. They are also very good at bigger pieces of DNA. Without their generous support nearly none of our constructs would have been possible. Thankfully 10 kB are quite a lot, though we had to use it to the last base.
Geneious
[http://www.geneious.com/ Geneious] is one of the world’s leading bioinformatics software platforms. A powerful and easy-to-use tool for planning and archiving your DNA library. This program made constructing our parts really easy and with an awesome sever function to share our library for every team member and access it from wherever we were. It saved us from loosing the overview of our parts. Quite an genius software.
NEB - New England Biolabs
Our trusted provider of high quality enzymes [Link NEB] is
Carl Roth
Founded in 1879 Carl Roth has been providing the laboratories and research facilities with high grade lab equipment and and chemicals for a over 135 years. Our trusted equipment was used in literally every transformation and our stylish pink tube racks even functioned as decor. Furthermore they provided us with lots of great storage boxes for all those 800+ DNA tubes we created during our project.
Eurofins
[http://www.eurofins.de/ Eurofins] is a worldwide leader in its field. The Group offers a portfolio of more than 150,000 reliable and validated analytical methods for evaluating the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products. But most importantly for us was their great over-night sequencing service. They allowed us to check all our constructs for success and avoid the problems of unwanted SNPs. In addition to that they also produce great primes for all the PCRs we had to make.
SERVA
True to their Motto: "SERVA serving scientists", [http://www.serva.de/ SERVA] is producing high quality products for a variety of lab applications though their specialty are electrophoresis gels and buffer of all kinds. They allowed us to precisely analyse and characterise the whole suite of proteins we produced over the course of the summer. And we have to thank them especially for our lab mascot and lucky charm, Servatius the squirrel.
Zymo Research
[http://www.zymoresearch.com/ Zymo Research] is a company that once was founded in a garage and has now become the provider of high quality and simple to use nucleic acid purification technologies. They helped us out with their grown-up Plasmid Maxiprep Kit. And the best part of this product is arguably the beautiful array of different colors. Its pretty much impossible to mix those solutions up.
QIAGEN
Our sponsor QIAGEN is a world wide active provider of sample and assay technologies for all kinds of research insitutions. We used their awesome DNA preparation kits almost every day. We could not have assembled all of our Biobricks without them. No wonder that half the teams knows the instructions from memory ;)
Bio-Rad
Since [http://www.bio-rad.com/ Bio-Rad] was founded over six decades ago, they have developed into a global supplier for the healthcare industry with innovative and useful products that help life science researchers accelerate the discovery process and medical diagnostic labs obtain faster, better results. And our stylish rack has a powerful attraction, magnetic attraction.
Faust
Offering all you may want for you lab, from standard reaction tubes to complex devices, [http://www.faustlabscience.de/ Faust Lab Science] is a great supplier of everyday lab equipment. We especially liked the yellow color of our tubes and racks.
Eppendorf
The high quality products of Eppendorf can be found all over the globe in every kind of scientific laboratory. They supplied us with our trusted favorite pipette that we use whenever we can. It is a real pleasure to work with it, even when you have to perform dozens of ligations.
Promega
Promega is a global leader in providing innovative solutions and technical support to life scientists in academic, industrial and government settings. Their portfolio of more than 3,000 products covers the fields of genomics, protein analysis and expression, cellular analysis, drug discovery and genetic identity. With their great and easy to use kits we were not only able to clean grams of DNA but also to fully analyse the viability of our transfected cells.
ibidi
We are happy to also be able to count the Munich company [http://ibidi.com/ ibidi] to our sposors. They are spin-off of both of our universities and are now a leading provider for innovative functional cell-based assay technologies utilized in academic research, applied testing, biotechnology and pharma. Their slides are made for our bioprinter.
Satorius
Sartorius is a leading international pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment supplier. With our innovative products and services, we are helping our customers across the entire globe to implement their complex and quality-critical biomanufacturing and laboratory processes reliably and economically. Their support software for our fermentor was very helpful for the up-scaled production of our beloved proteins.
Abcam
[http://www.abcam.com/ Abcam] is a true specialist for antibodies and everything you can do with them. Their growing range of products includes primary and secondary antibodies, biochemicals, proteins, peptides, lysates, immunoassays and other kits helps precisely detect whatever you need.
Red Bull
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