Team:Marburg/Team
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Team Marburg
Team Members
Patrick Gerlinger
Master student in Molecular and Cellular Biology. I joined the iGEM team to learn more about synthetic biology and to have the opportunity to work on a project developed by us students.
Nikolai Huwa
Master student in Chemistry. During my time in the iGEM team I got particularly fascinated by science as a heuristic approach.
Christoph Kahle
Master student in Agricultural Economics. iGEM gives me the great opportunity to look beyond the borders of my study subject and to get insights into synthetic biology.
Martin Lellep
Master student in Physics. I joined the iGEM Team Marburg in order to work quantitatively in a new field of science.
Maria Lindner
Master student in Molecular and Cellular Biology. iGEM taught me a lot about myself.
Steffen Lütke
Master student in Molecular and Cellular Biology. iGEM offers an extraordinary network of partners in research and industries.
Bastian Pook
Master student in Molecular and Cellular Biology. A great experience and so much more. It was a blast.
Lena Schmidt
Bachelor student in Media Studies. I joined the iGEM Marburg team to refresh my design knowledge. And of course the idea travelling to the USA and to join the Giant Jamboree was tempting.
The Advisors and Instructors
Daniel Hürtgen
PhD Candidate in Microbiology at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and LOEWE Research Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO). I`m in the group of Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik and I study minimal systems and molecular machines.
Tarryn Miller
PhD Candidate in Microbiology at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology. I am in the working group of Dr. Tobias Erb and I study synthetic CO2 fixation.
The PIs
Dr. Gert Bange
Research Group leader, LOEWE-Center for Synthetic Microbiology (Synmikro) in Marburg Germany, Molecular Plasticity of Microbial Adaptation. The mission of the AG Bange is to understand the molecular plasticity of microbial adaptation by combining high-resolution techniques with systems and cell biology approaches. Lab Homepage
Dr. Tobias J. Erb
Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute Marburg, Germany, Biochemistry and Synthetic Biology of Microbial Metabolism. Our research is located at the interface of microbial physiology, biochemistry, and ecology. We are driven by the desire to discover and engineer novel microbial pathways and enzymes that involve the transformation of carbon compounds, in particular acetate, methanol, methane or CO2. Further information about his research can be found here
Dr. Georg Fritz
Research Group leader, LOEWE-Zentrum für Synthetische Mikrobiologie Marburg Germany, Quantitative and Computational Microbiology. One focus of the Fritz research group is to reverse-engineer the molecular mechanisms behind natural gene regulation strategies involved in the response to changes in environmental conditions and to provide model-driven hypotheses for the evolutionary consequences associated with them. Additionally, their research focuses on the forward design and implementation of small, well-defined synthetic circuits with novel functionalities. Further information about his research can be found here.
