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This year’s iGEM team consists of 14 students from many distinct scientific fields including biology, chemistry, medicine, biochemistry/biophysics and informatics. Our team is supervised by Jun. Prof. Maximilian Ulbrich and Dr. Nicole Gensch, both being part of the scientific staff of the BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies. We also get advice and support from Luisa Keilholz and Adrian Fischer, some former iGEM participants who are sharing their experiences and knowledge with us.

Niklas (20)

B.Sc.Biology

Niklas - Brain of the team and the one you will find in lab on every time of the day (or rather “night”) doing his job as head of cloning group. Also he is responsible for modeling, internal wiki and registry pages. Most impressive thing of this guy are the sparkles in his eyes when telling someone about all the crazy and cool stuff he is learning and when his brain gets filled with new facts and pictures of glowing gels. Apart from that, Niklas is the guy who brought the core of the team together. Without him. No one of us would be here. Thank YOU! When it gets late at night you can clearly see the mischief in his eyes and know he is up to something! Always tries to lighten the mood with his (most of the time pretty dumb and silly) jokes:D

Katharina (21)

B.Sc. Biology

Katha - but first, coffee! Katha is one of our most precious team members. She may not always be the most approachable person in the morning without coffee, but if you have a lot of stuff on your mind or to do in the lab, she is always the first to offer you some help. Even though she herself is a group leader in lab for protein purification and the 3rd chairmen of our nonprofit association. Her other tasks mainly include checking of requirements for medals and prizes and the sponsoring, but honestly, she helps out wherever she can and is needed.

Nathalie (23)

B.Sc. Biology

Nathalie - one of the hardest working team members we got ! You could consider her the head of the dry lab since she is responsible for all the organisational stuff, human practice and most importantly our finances. Without her, the team would probably have been all over the place. Her part as a team leader is not always the easiest since she has to remind us to do certain things at least once a day. She also makes sure we don’t miss any deadlines and lives out her creativity with the styling of our poster, presentation, external wiki and all the graphics.

Danja (21)

B.Sc. Biology

Danja - Our mother of dragons .. ehm .. I mean .. producer of Spores! Danja is doing all the work the other teams rely on as the head of the bacillus basic group . Sometimes this is hard, we know, but we all appreciate her work and could not think about iGEM without her! Besides being awesome in the lab for most of the day, she always has an open ear to all your problems. Apart from being responsible for sponsoring and taking care that we don’t miss to fullfil all iGEM requirements, she helps writing the texts for this Wiki.

Christian (30)

M.Sc. Biophysics/Biochemistry

Why do I participate in iGEM

Hobbies (before iGEM)

Kevin (26)

M.Sc. Chemistry

Kevin - Still waters run deep. He sure isn’t a man of many words, but he is head of adhesion group where he and Chris work on the adhesion of our little dragons .. ehm .. spores to the surface. Most of his time he spends looking through the microscope, making sure the spores do what he wants them to do. Apart from this he is helping with the sponsoring and our facebook page.

Wladislaw (25)

M.Sc. Biophysics/Biochemistry

Wlad - our sub galactic hyper emperor. Wlad is our trump card when it comes to the laboratory work. He has a lot of experience and is keen to share them with you if you are interested. Do you have a problem or a question about a method or the project in general? Just go and ask him, I will assure you he will give you more than enough information. Wlad is also head of the wet lab and one of the most dedicated team members, who you will always find in the lab at night. We are really thankful for you to enrich our team with your kind advice.

Mario (25)

B.Sc. Biology

Mario - fountain of caffeine and energy!! You will always find Mario sitting in the corner of our seminar room, tapping away on his computer (most likely doing some exhausting stuff like the statistics ) and in front of him either coffee or a big can of monster energy… and that at all times! As the head of the group 5 he is practically glued to our amazing plate reader from BMG labtech and you can watch him pipetting like a thousand dilutions. Always with the nice scent of shampoo surrounding him, since he is also responsible for our fun application the dandruff shampoo.

Lucy (25)

Medicine

Why do I participate in iGEM

Hobbies (before iGEM)

Yannic (21)

B.Sc. Biology

Yannic - Source of creativity and funny lab photos! Yannic’s main tasks are human practice, sponsoring and documentation of our summer. So all of the pictures you find in this wiki are “made by Yannic”. He is always interested in different parts of our project and goes to each lab group from time to time to ask some questions and learns exciting things. In his free time, which right now is, let’s be honest here, none, he usually is all about movies and is always ready to give you his opinion on them.

Christina (20)

B.Sc. Biology

Why do I participate in iGEM

Hobbies (before iGEM)

Vivien (22)

B.Sc. Biology

Why do I participate in iGEM

Hobbies (before iGEM)

Zaid (24)

M.Sc. Informatics

Why do I participate in iGEM

Hobbies (before iGEM)

Syed (26)

M.Sc. Informatics

Mohsin - you always need a computer guy on your side… at least if you don’t want to lose your head while staring on endless computer codes. Together with Nathalie he is responsible for our external Wiki and introduced our minds to the magical and very confusing world of HTML.

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