Christopher Workman
Chris has been the supervisor for the DTU Biobuilders since the beginning and is always ready to answer any questions, be it about iGEM or science. He has done a lot for our team. We would not be the well-oiled machine we are today if not for him, and we would probably be sitting in a corner crying if it wasn’t for his guidance.

Kyle Rothschild-Mancinelli
As an ex-participant of iGEM and Ph.d. working with fungi, Kyle not only knew when to push us to keep up with the time-schedule, but he always pushed us to factually justify anything we did for our project. His drive and expectation made us want to do better and he was the perfect second-in-command to Chris Workman.

Mikako Sasa, Researcher at Novozymes
Helped with direction of the project.

Sara Landwik, Researcher at Novozymes
Helped with the direction of the project

Jens Frisvad, DTU Bioengineering
Expert on fungal biodiversity who helped us in our initial search for befitting species.

Uffe Hasbro Mortensen, DTU Bioengineering
Helped us deciding on non-homologous end joining instead of homologous recombination.

Philip George Hau Sørensen, DTU Biobuilders 2017
Helped immensely with designing, ordering and procecuting different protocols. He also helped a lot with our Biobrick tutorial.

Cathrine Agnete Larsen, DTU Biobuilders 2017
Helped in submitting parts.

Aleksander Moldt Haack, DTU Biobuilders 2017
Helped with the Biobrick tutorial.

Rasmus John Nordman Frandsen, DTU Bioengineering
gave feedback regarding cloning-strategies and colony PCR in A. oryzae.

Anna Joensen, DTU Bioengineering
Helped with sending the submitted parts.

Jens Preben Morth, Professor at DTU bioengineering
We coincidentally had several conversations with Preben, where we discussed our challenges in the laboratory work. He gave us good sparring on our ideas and inspired solutions to some of our problems.

Ecovative Design
Ecovative Design is a New York based company that provided both inspiration and guidance to mycolab. We collaborated with Damen Schaak, an experienced senior research scientist and project manager. As part of the collaboration, he supplied a protoplastation protocol and strains of Ecovative’s Ganoderma, and helped us adapting the protocol.

Mycoworks
As they produce alternative and sustainable biomaterials using fungi. This San-Francisco-based startup was as well a good source of inspiration for our project.

Fungal Genetics Stock Center
Center based in the USA that preserves fungal strains used in genetics research. They kindly provided free plasmids containing inducible promoters.

Dr. HAB Wösten, Professor of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University
Developed a hydrophobin knockout in S. commune.

Freek Appels, PhD student at Utrecht University
Helped with sending the S. commune from Utrecht to DTU.

Timothy Hobley, DTU Brewery
Provided spent brewing grains to be used as a substrate.

Fabiano Jares
PhD at DTU Bioengineering. He provided support for mycolab activities, especially for protoplastation and transformation for Aspergillus oryzae.

Jakob Kræmmer Rendsvig
PhD student at DTU bioengineering. He helped mycolab with assessing transformation conditions of A. oryzae, specifically with providing a way to select for transformants.

Andreas M. Vestergaard
PhD student at DTU bioengineering. He assisted mycolab in protoplastation of A. oryzae.

XXX, Hyphaebox, a mycotecture startup at DTU
Helped with the growth conditions and interesting structural factors to examine.

YYY, Hyphaebox, a mycotecture startup at DTU
Helped with the growth conditions and interesting structural factors to examine.

Lisbeth M. Ottosen
Guided and helped us get access to the lab

Christian Peter Rasmussen
Explained how to use the universal testing machine for performing ultimate compressive strength.

Holger Koss
Gave us foam samples used to compare to our final fungal bricks.

DTU Skylab
Allowed us to use their equipment and providing us with instructions on how to weld and cut metal.

Christina Ankjærgaard and Arne Miller from DTU NucTech
Helped us expose the fungi to a dose of gamma-radiation, equivalent to what they will receive on Mars.

Dmitrij Getman
Teacher from st. Magleby skole contacted us with regards to the talks. Helped design the focus of the talk.

Juliane Hansen
Teacher from Skt. Knud Lavard elementary school.

Stefan Tausen
Teacher from Kratbjergskolen, Ravnsholt Department.

Lasse Stampe Boje
Teacher from the elementary department of Sankt Annæ Gymnasium.

Matthew Romang, Exeter
Head of HP collab at Exeter.

Frida Kampp, UCopenhagen
Head of HP collab at UCopenhagen.

Michael Linden-Vørnle, Astrophysicist and Chief Consultant at DTU Space
Helped shape the DTU part of the collaboration.

Victoria Sværke Rasmussen, UCopenhagen
Head of HP collab at KU.

Christian Lund, PhD in history and philosophy at Sankt Annæ Gymnasium.
Helped with historical expertise during the DTU part of the collaboration.

Eben Bayer, CEO
Helped with aligning the project with industry demands.

Jen Towne
Coordinates meetings with Eben and Damen.

Line Aastrup, Member from last years iGEM team.
Line helped shape how bookkeeping of this years iGEM team was done.

Malene Bonne Meyer, Head of teaching and talent development at DTU Bioengineering.
Malene has been a great source of help for the economy group. She has made sure that our bills have been registered and paid the right ways and in general helped us navigate the bureaucratic system of DTU’s economy. She has also guided us in matters of flight bookings and not least fundraising.

Rosalba A. Marek, Section secretary at DTU Bioengineering.
Rosalba has played a crucial part in the booking of flight tickets.

Louise Balling
Gently scrutinized and subsequently approved our budget.

Stamatina Rentouli, member of iGEM Stockholm
Stamatina inspired ideas helping our fundraising efforts.