Team:UBonn HBRS/Attributions

 

Attributions

We are very thankful for the lots of help we received! Please also check out our great Sponsors, whom we dedicated a special page:
Our Sponsors


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.

Heart

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 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, 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