Team:LMU-TUM Munich/Team

The TU-Munich's and LMU's iGEM team 2016

Figure 1: Group picture

This year we have an especially diverse Team, since it was formed by bringing together students from Munich’s most important Universities. The Ludwigs-Maximilian University and the Technical University of Munich decided to look for interested students to participate at this year’s Giant Jamboree. That’s how the two Instructors of this year working at the chair of biological Chemistry at the WZW from the TUM gathered together ten Students from the TUM and six students of the LMU to work together. The outcome was a perfectly mixed team from members with experience in molecular biology, mechanics and even electronics. We were very lucky to be able to match together while working at the lab and we truly enjoyed the time spent together. It was also evident how each of us could support the project with our diverse skills.
Thanks to the imminent support of Prof. Dr. Arne Skerra and his team at the chair of biological chemistry we were able to accomplish our experiments and biological works in his well equipped laboratory.

Student Members

Clemens Ries

Field of Study:
Biology

Semester:
Master 3rd semester

University:
TUM

Every time we wanted to know anything about the cloning, Clemens was the best person to approach from the team. With his broad experience in molecular biology due to his multiple Jobs as student assistant at diverse Investigation centers, he was able to keep the backbone of the project always straight. Trustworthy, honest and a ready-to-help person describe him perfectly. One of his best skills is rhetoric, he was always ready to explain us everything in the best manner possible. One word you'll hear him saying very often is hervorragend!, which in german means brilliant! or outstanding!, so you get an idea of the positive energy he transmits.

Enes Uğur

Field of Study:
Biochemistry

Semester:
Master 2nd semester

University:
LMU

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Christoph Gruber

Field of Study:
Molecular Biotechnology

Semester:
Master 4th semester

University:
TUM

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Julian Hofmann

Field of Study:
Biochemistry

Semester:
Bachelor 4th semester

University:
TUM

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Javier Luna-Mazari

Field of Study:
Molecular Biotechnology

Semester:
Bachelor 3rd semester

University:
TUM

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Vivien Lechner

Field of Study:
Biochemistry

Semester:
Bachelor 6th semester

University:
TUM

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Luisa Krumwiede

Field of Study:
Molecular Biotechnology

Semester:
Bachelor 4th semester

University:
TUM

Luisa is doubtless the life and soul at the lab. With her vivid personality she is always prepared to tell a good joke or make you smile with a story. Perseverance is her best attribute, Luisa was most of the time taking care of our fragile cells at the cell culture. Like a mother she took care of them and did all necessary experiments to keep them alive and working. Her engagement since she was in High School gave her a lot of experience in the cell culture.

Madeleine Premm

Field of Study:
Biology

Semester:
Bachelor 4th semester

University:
LMU

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Elena Fajardo-Ruíz

Field of Study:
Biology

Semester:
Bachelor 4th semester

University:
TUM

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Manuel Trauner

Field of Study:
Biochemie

Semester:
Master 3rd semester

University:
LMU

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Jan Böhning

Field of Study:
Biochemistry

Semester:
Master 3rd semester

University:
LMU

cell culture, proud of his new mac,

Moritz Münst

Field of Study:
Biochemistry

Semester:
Master 3rd semester

University:
TUM

cell culture, proud of his new mac,

Michael Schön

Field of Study:
Biochemistry

Semester:
Master 3rd semester

University:
TUM

cell culture, proud of his new mac,

Peter Benedikt von Niebelschütz

Field of Study:
Biochemistry

Semester:
Master 3rd semester

University:
LMU

cell culture, proud of his new mac,

Hallie Knight Hughes

Field of Study:
Biochemistry

Semester:
Master 3rd semester

University:
TUM

cell culture, proud of his new mac,

Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Arne Skerra

200px Chair: Biological Chemistry TUM WZW

Since 1998 Prof. Dr. Arne Skerra is Full Professor at the [http://www.tum.de Technische Universität München], where he heads the [http://www.lrz.de/~Biologische-Chemie/index.html Institute of Biological Chemistry]. He is internationally renowned for his comprehensive experience and his pioneering contributions in the fields of molecular biotechnology and protein engineering.

In addition to his scientific excellence he strives to apply and economically utilize academic results, and to date he founded two start-ups. He advises our iGEM team scientifically and offers laboratory places at his chair.

Instructors

Andreas Reichert

Position: PhD student at the chair of Biological Chemistry TUM WZW. Field of Study: Molecular Biotechnology

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Volker Morath

Position: PhD student at the chair of Biological Chemistry TUM WZW.

Field of Study: Biology (graduated)

Former Participation: Freiburg 2010 TU_Munich 2012.

After participating three times in iGEM, once in Freiburg, twice in Munich, Volker is now supervising once again this years iGEM team. From his previous participation he has gained lots of useful experience in order to keep us always on the right track.

Philipp Pfingstag

Position: Research associate and PhD candidate at the Dr. Theo Schöller Chair in Technology and Innovation Management (Prof. Dr. Joachim Henkel)

Field of Study: Synthethic biology

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Dong-Jiunn Jeffery Truong

Codename:
24/7-Jeff

Field of Study:
Molecular Biotechnology

Position: PhD student at the Helmholtz Zentrum München.

Former participation in:
TU_Munich 2012

If I would just have three words to describe Jeff, these words would be: What a Gen(e)ious!!! There is nobody in the team who can mess with him on DNA-Level. His enthusiasm for the project goes so far, that he can sleep 3 hours per night – one week straight, when there is urgent work to be done. After getting in touch with the idea of iGEM, Jeffery was immediately infected by the idea of synthetic biology. He has a keen interest in optogenetics and signaling, which made him the perfect fit to work on our safety mechanism. Besides to his enormous wisdom, he is one of the most uncomplicated and down-to-earth people we ever got acquainted with.

Advisors