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 our Instructor 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.