Team:Stuttgart/Team

iGEM Team Stuttgart 2018


Members

Lars

Lars Höing

Team Nisin, Modeling, Social Media, Wiki, Student Leader

  • What are you studying: Technical Biology, M.Sc.
  • Your iGEM tasks: Establishing production of nisin in E. coli, Wiki, Project Management and keeping track of deadlines
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Developing own ideas, realizing them and gaining knowledge about new things
  • What did iGEM teach you for life?  Taking on more responsibility, self-organisation
  • Other Interests: 
  • Going to Festivals, Reading, Gaming and Watching Sports

    lars.hoeing@igem-stuttgart.de

    Luca

    Luca Schelle

    Team Nisin, Wiki

  • What are you studying: Technical Biology, M.Sc.
  • Your iGEM tasks: Establishing production of nisin in E. coli, Primer-Design, Moral Instance, DJ
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Improving things nature can't do yet
  • What did iGEM teach you for life? Create projects and experiments from scratch
  • Other Interests: Watching all kind of sports, meeting with friends
  • Luca.Schelle@igem-stuttgart.de

    Liv

    Liv Paul

    Team Nisin, Wiki

  • What are you studying: Technical Biology, M.Sc.
  • Your iGEM tasks: Establishing production of nisin in E. coli, Wiki
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Start a project from scratch and realizing ideas together with a team
  • What did iGEM teach you for life? nothing works as planned :) 
  • Other Interests: playing music, reading crime novels, Netflix, visiting friends abroad
  • Liv.Paul@igem-stuttgart.de

    Lars

    Philip Horz

    Team Linkage, Wiki, Sponsoring

  • What are you studying: Technical Biology, M.Sc.
  • Your iGEM tasks: Linkage of all components, Interlab Study, Sponsoring, Wiki
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Creating new useful applications, that are not found in nature and add value to humanity
  • What did iGEM teach you for life?  Reading protocols until the end, Self-Organisation and planing of experiments
  • Other Interests: 
  • Motorcycling, doing sports and watching sports

    Philip.Horz@igem-stuttgart.de

    Lars

    Jan Notheisen

    Team Linkage, Wiki, Sponsoring

  • What are you studying: Technical Biology, M.Sc.
  • Your iGEM tasks: Linkage of all components, Interlab Study, Sponsoring, Finances
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Realizing my own ideas/science and making biology do, what I want
  • What did iGEM teach you for life?  Teamwork, self-organisation, and working independently. Also, reading protocols until the end ;-)
  • Other Interests: 
  • Motorcycling, farming, bouldering and other sports

    Jan.Notheisen@igem-stuttgart.de

    Nadine

    Nadine Kübler

    Team Linkage, Wiki

  • What are you studying: Technical Biology, M.Sc.
  • Your iGEM tasks: Linkage of all components, Wiki
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Developing useful applications/ideas to improve current problems & gaining knowledge of other areas in biology than already known ones
  • What did iGEM teach you for life?  what's important for realizing and developing a project
  • Other Interests: travelling, fitness & nutrition, reading
  • Nadine.Kübler@igem-stuttgart.de

    Lars

    Alexandra Mack

    Team Chitosan, Sponsoring

  • What are you studying: Technical Biology, M.Sc.
  • Your iGEM tasks: Establishing chitosan production in E. coli based on Team Darmstadt from 2017, Sponsoring, Shirt-Designer
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Teamwork, Making connections all over the world, Managing your own project
  • What did iGEM teach you for life? Money makes the world go round
  • Other Interests: Skiing, playing instruments
  • Alexandra.Mack@igem-stuttgart.de

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    Benjamin Schäfer

    Team Chitosan, Sponsoring

  • What are you studying: Technical Biology, M.Sc.
  • Your iGEM tasks: Establishing chitosan production in E. coli based on Team Darmstadt from 2017, Organizing lab materials
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Plan your own project and work independently
  • What did iGEM teach you for life? Science is not as easy as you want it to be
  • Other Interests: Running, nature, computer
  • benjamin.schaefer@igem-stuttgart.de

    Marco

    Marco Zimmer

    Website, Modeling, Sponsoring, Wiki

  • What are you studying: Technical Biology, M.Sc.
  • Your iGEM tasks: Visual layout and content of our own website and the iGEM wiki site.
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Working independently on an own project from start to finish.
  • What did iGEM teach you for life?  Projectplaning, improvement of html skills
  • Other Interests: Travel, Hockey, Floorball
  • marco.zimmer@igem-stuttgart.de

    Natalie

    Natalie Härterich

    Team Rhamnolipid

  • What are you studying: Technical Biology, M.Sc.
  • Your iGEM tasks: Establishing rhamnolipid production in P. putida
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Gaining knowledge of other areas that were not part of our studies yet, creating and organizing our own project
  • What did iGEM teach you for life? Dealing with failure, self-organisation, looking for new approaches and solutions
  • Other Interests: Soccer, doing and watching sports, meeting friends
  • Natalie.Haerterich@igem-stuttgart.de

    Daniel

    Daniel Hofacker

    Team Rhamnolipid, Modeling, Wiki

  • What are you studying: Technical Biology, M.Sc.
  • Your iGEM tasks: Establishing rhamnolipid production in P. putida, Modeling, Wiki
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Self organized working and planing of experiments
  • What did iGEM teach you for life? How to cope with drawbacks
  • Other Interests: Watching and doing sports, especially soccer and biking
  • daniel.hofacker@igem-stuttgart.de

    Teresa

    Teresa Gäbele

    Team "Jumper"

  • What are you studying: Technical Biology, M.Sc.
  • Your iGEM tasks:  supporting all teams
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? team work, meeting other people
  • What did iGEM teach you for life? cope with troubleshootings
  • Other Interests: playing volleyball, meeting friends
  • teresa.gaebele@igem-stuttgart.de

    Instructors

    Sebastian

    Sebastian Grenz

    PhD Student

  • What are you studying: PhD student at Institute of Biochemical Engineering in Stuttgart, Previously: M.Sc. Genome based Systems Biology in Bielefeld, B.Sc. Bioinformatics and Genome Research in Bielefeld
  • Your iGEM tasks: Advisor, providing experience and help for the team.
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Working independently on an own project from start to finish.
  • Previous iGEM experiences: You can accomplish great things working together as a team.
  • Other Interests: Travel, soccer and other sports, Netflix
  • sebastian.grenz@ibvt.uni-stuttgart.de

    Martin

    Martin Ziegler

    PhD Student

  • What are you studying: PhD student at Institute of Biochemical Engineering in Stuttgart using E. coli. Previously: I have studied Molecular Biotechnology in Heidelberg. 2016, I received my Master degree in the field of Industrial Biotechnology at the TU Munich.
  • Your iGEM tasks: I am one of the PhD students that are supervising the daily labwork. I am open for questions and problems and always happy to help.
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? I love the idea of iGEM.
  • Previous iGEM experiences: It is my first year of iGEM.
  • Other Interests: holidays, enjoying grandma's food
  • martin.ziegler@ibvt.uni-stuttgart.de

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    Robert Nitschel

    PhD Student

  • What are you studying: PhD student at Institute of Biochemical Engineering in Stuttgart about synthetic biology with Pseudomonas putida. Previously: I have studied Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology in the Netherlands until 2015
  • Your iGEM tasks: I am one of the PhD students that are supervising the daily labwork and helping the team out with their problems and questions.
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? I love the concept of iGEM. The idea, to help students and giving them the opportunity to find their own solution for biological or even social-/ economical problem by using synthetic biology, is great.
  • Previous iGEM experiences: iGEM taught me to work a as a team and that no challenge is great enough to be solved.
  • Other Interests: Reading Fantasy, Mountain biking, Gaming
  • robert.nitschel@ibvt.uni-stuttgart.de

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    Erik Eppinger

    PhD Student

  • What are you studying: I am doing my PhD thesis at the Institute of microbiology
  • Your iGEM tasks: I am one of the PhD students that are supervising the daily labwork. I've been always there if a helping hand was needed.
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? The competition of iGEM is very exciting. The opportunity of networking is great for all students.
  • Previous iGEM experiences: It is my first year working in an iGEM team.
  • Other Interests: loves being outdoors, social activities with friends and local wines, getting healthy with sunflower seeds.
  • erik.eppinger@imb.uni-stuttgart.de

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    Adrian Eilingsfeld

    PhD Student

  • What are you studying: PhD student at the Institute of Biochemical Engineering in Stuttgart on scale-up heterogeneity. Previously: M. Sc. in Biomolecular Engineering at TU Darmstadt and M. Sc. in Space Studies at the International Space University.
  • Your iGEM tasks: Advisor and versatile latchkey kid enabling the students in working outside of work hours and on weekends. Mostly making sure that the students do not set their socks ablaze.
  • What do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? The perspective of working on a self-imposed project leading to a deeper understanding on how science is done in a real-world environment.
  • Previous iGEM experiences: Founding year at TU Darmstadt and fool-in-charge of the wiki back in the days.
  • Other Interests: Other than rocketry nothing that I would like to share with the internet.
  • adrian.eilingsfeld@ibvt.uni-stuttgart.de

    Advisors

    Martin_Siemann

    Martin Siemann-Herzberg

    PD Dr. rer. nat.

    PD Dr. rer. nat. Martin Siemann-Herzberg is deputy director and academic teacher at the Institute of Biochemical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart. His research focuses on Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology with regard to its use for technical purposes. Together with former iGEM participants he spearheaded the idea to start the first iGEM Team at the University of Stuttgart. He always believed in our ideas, stayed positive and motivated us in all kinds of situations during the project. He also provided massive support with technical and organizational problems.

    siemann@ibvt.uni-stuttgart.de

    Björn

    Björn Voß

    Jun.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

    We are very happy to call him our Secondary PI and thankful for the support of our team! Besides his research and academic teaching position at the Institute of Biochemical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart is also member of Faculty of 1000 (F1000), Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics & Computational Biology.

    bjoern.voss@ibvt.uni-stuttgart.de

    Impression of Stuttgart



    Some impressions of the campus of the University of Stuttgart

    Some impressions of the campus of the University of Stuttgart

    A beautiful lake is shown at the campus. A nice meetingpoint to relax or have a beer with friends.

    A romantic sunset is shown from our lab building.