Attributions
Team member contributions
Nele Burckhardt
- Part design
- Biolab
- Human Practices
- Sponsoring
- Social Media
- Wiki Content
Lea Daniels
- Biolab
- Human Practices
- Wiki content
- Nico Domschke
- Chemistry Lab
Nadine Fischer
- Part design
- Biolab
- Sponsoring
- Wiki content
Nicole Freese
- Part design
- Experimental design
- Biolab
- Human Practices
- Finances
- Sponsoring
- Wiki Content
Jonas Hoffmeister
- Hardware development
Alexander Kartheiser
- Team Leadership
- Biolab
- Human Practices
- Chemistry Lab
- Sponsoring
- Wiki Content
Bjarne Klopprogge
- Part design
- Experimental design
- Biolab
- Collaborations
- Social Media
- Human Practices
- Sponsoring
- Wiki Content
Dustin Krüger
- Part design
- Biolab
- Collaborations
- Wiki content
Roderich Meißner
- Wiki Content
- Chemistry Lab
- Social Media
Oda-Emilia Meyfarth
- Part design
- Biolab
- Social Media
- Sponsoring
- Human Practices
- Wiki content
Lisa Pütthoff
- Team Leadership
- Part design
- Biolab
- Social Media
- Finances
Carla von Salisch
- Chemistry Lab
Finni Speckenheuer
- Biolab
- Chemistry Lab
Dominika Wawrzyniak
- Team Leadership
- Part design
- Biolab
- Experimental Design
- Sponsoring
- Human Practices
- Wiki content
- Collaborations
Daniel Wedemeyer
- Part design
- Experimental design
- Wiki framework and content
- Design
- Collaborations
- Bioinformatics & Modelling
- Hardware development
Markus Winkler
- Biolab
- Human Practices
- Wiki Content
- Chemistry Lab
Alan Wypych
- Biolab
- Wiki Content
- Human Practices
Supporting
Zoya Ignatova
Zoya Ignatova is our primary Principal Investigator. She is professor for biochemistry at the University of Hamburg and an expert on tRNAs. Zoya has the amazing talent to give helpful advice on whatever topic we discuss while giving us total freedom in project development, design and execution. Her unique approach makes iGEM the learning experience it is designed to be. With great patience Zoya lets us make our own choices. By founding an iGEM team at our university she gave generations of students the amazing opportunity to grow far above what the usual curriculum teaches, enabling us to develop such an extensive and ambitious project.
Andreas Czech
Andreas is our secondary Principal Investigator. He was always helpful and supported us with helpful advice every time we were confronted with problems, even on his days off and on weekends. Thanks to his dedicated way to advise us, members without any laboratory experience were able to adapt quickly. He furthermore supported us in the process of organizing our experiments and our laboratory equipment. We are very thankful for his help and support.
Frank-Olaf Lohmann
Frank is our team psychologist. As psychology student he helped us a lot by organizing our team and building our team spirit. He was there for us whenever we needed his diplomatic advice. He was our mediator when conflict arose and taught us how to notice and prevent emerging conflicts. Thanks to him we were able to grow not only on a professional but also on a personal, social level.
Henning Jacobsen
Henning is an Advisor of our Team. He was the team leader of the first iGEM Team of the University of Hamburg, Flu Fighters in 2015. He advised us how to plan a project and organize a team, and with his wide network, also helped to find sponsors. Although he is not a regular team member and did not work in the lab physically he was available day and night for questions and problems.
Shanti Ricke
As a former iGEM team leader Shanti helped us in various parts of the project along the way. Although he was really busy with his bachelor’s thesis he always made time for us and supported our work in the lab as well as our sponsoring acquisition with helpful information. He also advised us on how to deal with different problems relating new cloning methods and iGEM deadlines. He really made effort in the beginning of this iGEM year to introduce this great competition to our newbies and refired our old-established members’ passion for iGEM.
Partners
We thank our partners outside iGEM:
Thomas Jacobs
For hosting us at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for tropical medicine and providing us with mosquitoes as well as advice for the experimental design of our Demonstrate experiments.
Mathias Riehn
For his support and help during the mosquito experiments at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for tropical medicine.
Daniel Wilson
For his advice and support in experimental design and letting us use his groups lab equipment.
Mirko Himmel
For his advice regarding biosafety, which led us to reconsider and change significant aspects of our project.
Wolfgang Maison
For letting us perform chemical experiments and syntheses in his lab.
Ingrid Goebel
For guiding us whenever we needed help at finding lab materials, using lab devices and giving us advice on Dos and Don’ts in the lab.
Former Members
Nina Kähler
Jana Ketzel
We thank you for your contribution to the project and wish you the best success for your future endeavours. It was a nice time having you on the team!
Interview Partners and Partners in Human Practices
- Mirko Himmel
- Thomas Jacobs
- Andrew Hammond
- Omar Juma
- David Hutchison
Ignatova Lab
We thank the Ignatova lab for hosting us throughout the year and being helpful and open for our questions and problems.
- Ingrid Goebel
- Christine Polte
- Katrin Kröger
- Susan Amirbeigiarab
- Suki Albers
- Sarada Das
- Priyanka Nair
- Deepti Vipin
- Giovana Bampi
- Negar Ghadernezhad
- Irina Chelysheva
- Ana Velazquez-Sanchez
- Andriy Kazantsev
- Johannes Wagner
And all associated
iGEM Teams
iGEM Team Düsseldorf, For their expertise on cyanobacteria
iGEM Team Makerere University for their help in finding experts of malaria research in Africa and sharing their expertise and opinions for our interviews.
iGEM Team TU-Eindhoven, for providing us with their expertise on hydrogels and sending us theirs for us to perform tests on which in turn helped us at further designing our hydrogel.
iGEM Team LMU/TU Munich, for their great advice on sponsoring and their kind hospitality when we lost our accomodation at the European iGEM meetup.
iGEM Team Bonn, for sharing their very helpful expertise on sponsoring with us.
iGEM Team Marburg, for sharing their alternative protocols for Golden Gate Assembly.
Funding
We would like to thank all of our sponsors and partners for their support and valuable input for our project. Without their help this project would have never grown and gone this far. You can read about each sponsor in the following:
Claussen-Simon-Stiftung
“Die Claussen-Simon-Stiftung fördert begabte junge Menschen auf den verschiedenen Etappen ihrer schulischen, akademischen, professionellen und persönlichen Entwicklung. In den drei Förderbereichen „Bildung & Schule“, „Wissenschaft & Hochschule“ sowie „Kunst & Kultur“ bieten wir Stipendienprogramme und Projektförderungen für Schülerinnen und Schüler, Studierende, Promovierende und Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen sowie Künstlerinnen und Künstler”
Altona Diagnostics
“The altona Diagnostics team shares a scientific background in infectious diseases and molecular technologies. Our history in research and business activities provides over 20 years of experience in molecular diagnostics, focusing on real-time PCR and other relevant technologies. This includes the development and validation of molecular diagnostic test systems as well as the transfer into new ready to use kits for IVD purposes”
- altona-diagnostics.com
Biomol
“With a growing portfolio of 360,000 products from more than 40 suppliers, Biomol has been connecting researchers with products to support their discoveries for 50 years. We combine our understanding of life science research with a curated collection of products from specialized manufacturers to meet the needs of researchers.”
- biomol.com
Deutsche Malaria GmbH
“DMG Deutsche Malaria GmbH is dedicated to fighting malaria. The company is using Fosmidomycin to enforce existing therapies as well as developing new antimalarial therapeutic alternatives.
The privately owned Hamburg, Germany based company has build a highly promising record of research currently culminating in the successful combination of Fosmidomycin and Piperaquine in Phase II studies in Africa. Partners are welcome to join these efforts to speed up the next steps of the study program with the goal to bring relevant antimalarial therapeutic options to the market. DMG Deutsche Malaria GmbH has been or is supported by Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) – a not for profit organisation funded by the Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation, European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Programme (EDCTP) and World Health Organisation (WHO).”
- deutschemalaria.com
Bioglobe
“Bioglobe GmbH was created in 2001 as a spin-off from a private research institution of international renown, the IHF-Institut für Hormon- und Fortpflanzungsforschung (or IHF Institute of Hormone and Reproduction Research).
We provide services in all areas of molecular genetics. We specialize particularly in medical genetics, disposition genetics and services for academic research institutions and industry. Over the past few years, we have been able to win over numerous clients with the high quality and reliability of our services.
Our multifaceted and highly qualified team allows us to support research and development projects from the planning, application and implementation phases right through to publication of results.”
- bioglobe.net
Eurofins
“Eurofins Scientific through its subsidiaries (hereinafter sometimes “Eurofins” or “the Group”) believes it is the world leader in food, environment and pharmaceutical products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the key emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing in Europe and the USA. With over 40,000 staff in more than 400 laboratories across 44 countries, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 150,000 analytical methods for evaluating the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin and purity of biological substances and products, as well as for innovative clinical diagnostic. The Group objective is to provide its customers with high-quality services, accurate results on time and expert advice by its highly qualified staff.”
- eurofins.com
New England Biolabs
“Founded in the mid-1970s as a collective of scientists committed to developing innovative products for the life sciences industry, New England Biolabs is now a recognized world leader in the discovery, development and commercialization of recombinant and native enzymes for genomic research.”
- neb.com
IDT
“Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (IDT), the global leader in nucleic acid synthesis, serving all areas of life sciences research and development, offers products for a broad range of genomics applications. IDT’s primary business is the production of custom, synthetic nucleic acids for molecular biology applications, including qPCR, next generation sequencing, synthetic biology, and functional genomics.”
- idtdna.com
SnapGene
“SnapGene was born of frustration. Ben Glick, a cell biologist and experienced cloner, realized that a huge amount of effort is wasted because researchers make avoidable mistakes when planning their cloning procedures, and because records of cloning procedures are incomplete. [...]
This problem has a solution: good software. If molecular biology software were easier to use than pen and paper, researchers would naturally plan their cloning procedures with computers, and electronic records could be automatically produced. [...]
Working with labs around the world, we created software to meet the everyday needs of molecular biologists. Each enhancement has generated new ideas, and SnapGene is still in active development.”
- snapgene.com