Attributions

We are very thankful for the lots of help we received, especially:

General support

We thank the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, the Limes Institute Bonn and the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg for providing the laboratory space, material and funding.

Project support and advice

We thank very much Prof. Dr. Günther Mayer and Prof. Dr. Michael Famulok for supervising the project.

Lab support

We thank a lot Ignacio Geraci and all the other PHDs of Professor Mayer’s laboratory, especially Christian Renzl, for their help and patience.

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Project advisor support

• Benedikt HÖLBLING
  

took care of the team’s finances and contributed to human practice.

BÙI Hoàng Duy

   gave advices to the project.

Niklas Arndt SCHMACKE concerned himself with the theoretical and practical introduction of new team members (and was available for questions during his master thesis in Switzerland?)

Wiki support

Balthasar SCHLOTMANN created graphics for the wiki.

Michael TESKE designed and programmed the wiki template.

Human Practices support

CAESAR We thank the Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (CAESAR) for providing the room for our science slams, contact to the public and expertise in the creation of the movies of the slam.

Team Attributions

Our Team Members worked in the following groups:

B. subtilis

Ariana KLAPPERT worked on the protein expression of B. subtilis

Jonas GOCKEL prepared competent bacteria and tested transformation protocols.

Cloning

Caroline FANDREY planned and executed restriction of genes, excretion tags and backbones, as well as ligation of recombinant plasmids and transformation in E. coli.

Ariana KLAPPERT supported the cloning group e.g. during preparation of DNA, ligations and transformations.

BÙI Hoàng Duy provided help in all tasks of cloning.

Jonas GOCKEL took part in backbone cloning.

Laura LÓPEZ NAVARRETE collaborated in assembling DNA constructs of tags and genes in E. coli and prepared rapid ligase buffer.

Michael TESKE supported the team with restriction analysis, ligations and took part in preparation of rapid ligase buffer.

Sophia MÄDLER took part in backbone cloning, took care of introducing the working methods to new members, created the IDT construct and performed analysis of sequencing results.

Triinu LINKGREIM took part in backbone cloning.

Deinking

Gintarė MALININAITĖ lead the deinking project and designed the experiments.

Stefan KOTTE provided support and established the grayscale analysis.

Specific Enzyme Essays

Triinu LINKGREIM established a working enzyme essay.

Human Practice

Alina SIEBENMORGEN one of the main organizing personnel of Science Slam, participated in contacting sponsors and organized team events.

Benedikt HÖLBLING one of the main organizing personnel of Science Slam, participated in contacting sponsors

Laura LÓPEZ NAVARRETE wrote an essay about biosafety, society and important factors to achieve the development of a project.

Michael TESKE created and evaluated our survey about synthetic Biology.

Jan HANSEN co-organized Science Slam and provided contact with CAESAR institute.

BÙI Hoàng Duy sponsoring delegate of the team.

Gintarė MALININAITĖ sponsoring delegate of the team, contacted paper companies and helped with science slam organization.

General Project

Balthasar SCHLOTMANN gave advice and motivation to the team and represented the team in iGEM meet ups with holding presentations.

Sophia MÄDLER did an overall organization of the project.

Niklas Arndt SCHMACKE gave professional advice and technical support.

Fallen Heroes

We would also like to thank people who are no longer involved in the project, but whose contribution was essential: Cathleen Hagemann, Mariya Chernyavska, Pavel Rhyzhov, Max Schelski, Guido de Boer, Katrin Ciupka, Alena Sommer, Ashwin Shah, Clarissa Hiltl, Virginia Malchus, Paul Maier

Our Sponsors

Platinum [Star Image]

Eppendorf https://www.eppendorf.com/DE-de/

IDT http://eu.idtdna.com/site

Ella Biotech http://ellabiotech.com

Gold [Star Image]

GATC https://www.gatc-biotech.com/de/index.html

Macherey Nagel http://www.mn-net.com

Silver [Star Image]

Starlab http://starlab.de/int/?l=2

Eurofins http://www.eurofins.de

NEB http://www.neb-online.de

Thermofisher http://www.thermofisher.com/de/de/home.html

Carl Roth https://www.carlroth.com/de/de