Attributions

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 our Instructor Ignacio Geraci and all the other PHDs of Professor Mayer’s laboratory, especially Christian Renzl, for their help and patience.

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, learn more about our team on our
Team Page

B. subtilis

• Ariana Natalie KLAPPERT
  worked on the protein expression of B. subtilis

• Jonas GOCKEL
  prepared competent bacteria, tested transformation protocols and established the Bacillus Subtilis collaboration with Freiburg.

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 Natalie KLAPPERT
  supported the cloning group e.g. during planning of restrictions, 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, minipreps, transformations 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, planned methods to achieve constructs.

• 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.

• Ariana Natalie KLAPPERT
  worked on and held our science slam presentation.

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

• Caroline FANDREY
  helped with our presentation for the science slam.

• BÙI Hoàng Duy
  sponsoring delegate of the team.

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

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

• 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.

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.