Team Trinity
Members
Jennifer Denter
Carina Gude
Svenja Hermanns
Ylenia Longo
Katharina Polzen
Salima Rüdiger
Nicholas Schmitt
Sarah Seyffert
Susanne Vollmer
Instructors
Thomas Bick
Miriam Dreesbach
Jan Maika
Advisors
Anna Behle
Tim Blomeier
Maximilian Dietsch
Kai Hussnätter
Philipp Rink
Nicolas Schmelling
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Jennifer Denter
- Study path: Biology 3rd semester M.Sc.
- Hobbies: Reading books, meeting friends, gaming
- Favorite organism: Rabbits (Lepus curpaemus) & Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) I mean, just have a look at them
- Role (in the team): Wet lab, research for the project and planning
- Pineapple on pizza: YES
- Heat shock preferences: At 45 °C for 10 min cause it works
- Me as a PokémonTM: Jigglypuff
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Carina Gude
- Study path: Biology, 6th semester Bachelor
- Hobbies: Except for gym gave up on all her hobbies because of iGEM (it used to be travelling, socializing...)
- Favorite organism: Cats (Felis catus), cause they hate everyone as well (jk, they are cute)
- Role (in the team): Team leader, wet lab, networking, presentation, Instagram and social media, postcard project, growth curves...
- Pineapple on pizza: Hell nah
- Heat shock preferences: 45 seconds
- Me as a PokémonTM: Meloetta
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Svenja Hermanns
- Study path: Biology, 5th semester Bachelor
- Hobbies: Love cuddling animals and cooking, but not cooking animals
- Favorite organism: Unicorns
- Role (in the team): Organizing outreach stuff, wet lab
- Pineapple on pizza: Sometimes
- Heat shock preferences: 42°C, 45 seconds
- Me as a PokémonTM: Meowth
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Ylenia Longo
- Study path: Biology, 3rd semester M.Sc.
- Hobbies: Travelling,cooking and swimming, but only after october of course
- Favorite organism: Canis lupus familiaris, especially my Chihuahua, which is as small as me
- Role (in the team): Lab smurf, Quorum sensing manager
- Pineapple on pizza: NEVER! A real italian does not do that stuff
- Heat shock preferences: 45 sec, overnight
- Me as a PokémonTM: Watchog
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Katharina Polzen
- Study path: Biology, 7th semester Bachelor
- Hobbies: before iGEM: traveling, tennis, hiking, meeting friends, cooking… Since iGEM: iGEM
- Favorite organism: Manatees (Trichechidae) because all they do is eat and sleep and swim
- Role (in the team): Food provider, wet lab worker, organizer… Mother for everything
- Pineapple on pizza: Sure
- Heat shock preferences: Mostly I forget it...
- Me as a PokémonTM: Chansey
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Salima Rüdiger
- Study path: Biology 3rd semester M.Sc.
- Hobbies: What are these “Hobbies”?
- Favorite organism: Felis catus, Bubo bubo, Pteropus alecto, green algae
- Role (in the team): Allrounder in wet lab, social media and outreach, meme generator, sometimes funny
- Pineapple on pizza: Should be illegal
- Heat shock preferences: 45 sec. at 42°C, sometimes longer when I am getting too talky with my lab mates
- Me as a PokémonTM: Gothorita
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Nicholas Schmitt
- Study path: Computer Sciences, Physics, 5th Semester
- Hobbies: Fitness, cooking, reading, Football coach
- Favorite organism: Wolves, because they are better than dogs
- Role (in the team): Modeling and other computer based work, wiki programmer
- Pineapple on pizza: NO!!!!!!
- Heat shock preferences: yes
- Me as a PokémonTM: Onix
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Sarah Seyffert
- Study path: Biology, 7th semester Bachelor
- Hobbies: Traveling, cooking, being in nature, reading books, gaming
- Favorite organism: Panthera uncia
- Role (in the team): Wet lab work, growth curves, safety form, research
- Pineapple on pizza: No, definitely NO
- Heat shock preferences: 42°C is the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"
- Me as a PokémonTM: Kirlia
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Susanne Vollmer
- Study path: Biology, 3rd Semester Bachelor
- Hobbies: Reading books, climbing, in general being in nature
- Favorite organism: Canis lupus lupus, Corvus corax
- Role (in the team): Wet lab work, asking question always
- Pineapple on pizza: No
- Heat shock preferences: 30-45 sec
- Me as a PokémonTM: Natu
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Thomas Bick
- Study path: Biology 3rd semester M.Sc.
- Hobbies: Reading, swimming
- Favorite organism: Tardigrada
- Role (in the team): Scientific input and wet lab work
- Pineapple on pizza: No
- Heat shock preferences: 90°C steam sauna, 20 min
- Me as a PokémonTM: Sudowoodo
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Miriam Dreesbach
- Study path: Biology, 2nd semester M.Sc.
- Hobbies: Pen & paper RPG, dancing, drawing, playing several instruments
- Favorite organism: Foxes (Vulpes vulpes), because they give a f**
- Role (in the team): Wet lab, cloning, sponsoring, integrated human practice, microscopy
- Pineapple on pizza: I didn’t even know that pizzas without pineapple exist
- Heat shock preferences: 42 °C, 45 sec., you’d end up in jail for any other time
- Me as a PokémonTM: Audino
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Jan Maika
- Study path: -
- Hobbies: (Watching) football
- Favorite organism: A. thaliana
- Role (in the team): Instructor
- Pineapple on pizza: Sometimes
- Heat shock preferences: 42°C, 45 sec
- Me as a PokémonTM: Linoone
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Anna Behle
- Study path: Synthetic Microbiology, 2nd year PhD
- Hobbies: Food, (craft) beer, roller blading, crafts
- Favorite organism: cats, elephants, cyanobacteria
- Role (in the team): Making sure the blue-green organisms aren’t neglected
- Pineapple on pizza: Ew, no
- Heat shock preferences: 45 sec, then 2 min on ice
- Me as a PokémonTM: Nidoqueen
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Tim Blomeier
- Study path: Synthetic Biology, 2nd year PhD
- Hobbies: Basketball, swimming, eating
- Favorite organism: Psychrolutes phrictus
- Role (in the team): Advisor
- Pineapple on pizza: Oh yes!!
- Heat shock preferences: 42°C, 45 sec
- Me as a PokémonTM: Unknown
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Maximilian Dietsch
- Study path: Synthetic Microbiology, PhD student
- Hobbies: advertising credit cards, trying to find new natural constants, skateboarding with Goofy
- Favorite organism: Homo erectus
- Role (in the team): Whiteboard-/Couch-Boi
- Pineapple on pizza: description - delicious
- Heat shock preferences: 420
- Me as a PokémonTM: Nidoking
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Kai Hussnätter
- Study path: Applied Microbiology, 3rd PhD Semester
- Hobbies: Baking, cooking, biking, inline skating
- Favorite organism: Ustilago maydis
- Role (in the team): Advisor
- Pineapple on pizza: Nope! Pineapples only belong in Cocktails!
- Heat shock preferences: 15 minutes, 42 °C, Yeast ftw
- Me as a PokémonTM: Primeape
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Philipp Rink
- Study path: Biology (Master)
- Hobbies: I am doing iGEM and there are only 24 hours a day
- Favorite organism: Lampropeltis mexicana, Heterodon nasicus
- Role (in the team): Advisor
- Pineapple on pizza: Yeah!
- Heat shock preferences: Skip it!
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Nicolas Schmelling
- Study path: Computational Biology, 3rd Year PhD
- Hobbies: Lauchformation (Gym), Beerstagram, StartUps
- Favorite organism: Tardigrade, Humulus lupulus
- Role (in the team): Lightboi, Internetzboi, Moneyboi
- Pineapple on pizza: Sometimes
- Heat shock preferences: Whatever feels good to you in the moment. Could be 39sec. or 43sec or anything else
- Me as a PokémonTM: Alolan Exeggutor