Team:NAWI Graz/Attributions

Team members

Marlene Hiesinger - Team leader, Human practice, Public Events, Sponsoring

Birgit Krainer - Human practice, Event planning, Interlab, Social Media, Sponsoring

Veronika Tandl - Human practice, Lab worker, Sponsoring

Anna Tilp - Finances, Trip planning, Human Practice, Lab work, Sponsoring

Thomas Lins - Head of lab design and work, Sponsoring

Dominik Strasser -Lab design and work

Marco Edelmayer - Lab work and design, Interlab, Collaborations

Jakob Witsch - Programmer and Graphic Artist, Sponsoring

Felix Schweigkofler - Survey

Henrik Seyfried - Instructor, Sponsoring, Public Engagement, Event planning

General Support

Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag.rer.nat. Dr.rer.nat. Anton Glider - Primary Investigator, product order management,

Assoz. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Klaus Natter - Secondary Investigator, Yeast expert, main advisor for preliminary tests

Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Peter Macheroux - professional expertise and project development

Assoc.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Harald Pichler - professional expertise and project development

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Birgit Wiltschi -emerged project development, focus on CRISPR-Cas9 two vector system

Lab support

Mag. Dr.rer.nat. Gerald Rechberger - analytics support

Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr.rer.nat. Karina Preiß-Landl - professional expertise

Frau Gertrude Zisser - product order management, lab supervising

Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Kai Uwe Fröhlich - laboratory allocation

Simon Kobalter PhD Student - laboratory methods assistance

Matthias Diepold PhD Student -laboratory methods assistance

Dr.rer.nat. Andreas Zimmermann - flow cytometry measurement(interlab study)

Sebastian Hofer PhD Student - flow cytometry measurement (interlab study)

Andreas Oswald Master Student - flow cytometry measurement (interlab study)

Difficult technique support

    ACIB (Austrian center of industrial biotechnology) :
  • Felix Tobola PhD student – advice on polycistronic expression cassette
  • Alena Voit PhD student- advice on polycistronic expression cassette

Human Practices support

CodeCheck Dr. Mandy Hecht and Franziska Grammes – interview about their app and view about their target group, help and advice with the survey

Rettet den Regenwald (save the rainforest) Marianne Klute – Interview about environmental impacts of palm(kernel)oil & friendly allowance for photography use

Anonymous plantation owner from Malaysia – interview about his view on the palm (kernel) oil topic

ASBL (European Candle Association) Stefan Thomann (managing director) – interview about the needs of the candle industry, in particular stearin

FFoQSI (Feed and Food Quality Safety and Innovation) Jürgen Marchart (CEO)- interview about current research on the palm (kernel)oil topic in Austria and the importance of food as lifestyle products

Hollu Systemhygiene GmbH Benjamin Göllner (head of research and development) - use of palm(kernel) oil in the production of cleaning products

Biodiesel Kärnten GmbH Dipl.-Ing. Werner Stulier MBA (CEO) – correspondence about use of palm(kernel) oil in Carinthia

VBD ( Verband der Deutschen Biokraftstoffindustrie) Wolf-Dietrich Kindt (speaker) – correspondence about the topic of palm kernel oil in biofuels in German production and the future in European biofuel production

Amnesty International Austria Team Mag.a Daniela Bäk-Lechner- provided us with a report on working conditions in the palm oil industry

Thanks and acknowledgements for all other people involved in helping make a successful iGEM project possible!

Woche-Zeitung: Andrea Sittinger - local newspaper

Gössl Trachten Graz: Paola Meredo & Christin Schober - wardrobe supervision for the photoshooting

Photographer: Martina Herz and team - photo shooting

ACIB: “lange Nacht der Forschung” co-operation

Mag.a Patricia Götz - organisation TU Graz Welcome Days

oikos - students for sustainable economics and management: Julian Taffner - movie night organisation

FFoQSI Valentina Andric & Julia Benedikt - science mediation

Patrick Hammer – mascot design

Studo: Julian Kainz - student news & planning app

student council molecular biology - Mol-Bio-Fest organisation

HTU Graz Verleihservice: Lukas Lohninger - equipment lending at a special time

Weinkellerei Peter Panitsch - provided wine and sturm

iGEM Team Munich - provided us chloramphenicol for the Interlay Study

Thanks to all people who took part in our survey!

Sponsoring

Multikraft - bronze sponsoring

NAWI Graz as part of TU Graz/KF Graz - gold sponsoring

Lactan - bronze sponsoring

Biomin - silver sponsoring

Studo - gold sponsoring

Codecheck - gold sponsoring

Shimadzu - silver sponsoring

Special thanks to all of our friends and families who supported us during this year!