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                               In our new iGEM team I am working on the mission field of sponsoring. I try to establish contacts to foundations, to lots of large international companies as well as to smaller regional companies presenting our project and asking for financial support and advice. It is a challenge to provide the funding to attend the Giant Jamboree, but we also need to organize laboratory material for the work on our research project.
                               


                               I heard that a small group of students is trying to initiate a research project to participate in the iGEM competition. Besides the daily demands of our university life I thought it would be an exciting challenge to take part in organizing such a huge project as iGEM. Since then I had a lot of opportunities to challenge myself, and to confront myself with situations I am not very comfortable with. In this way I acquired lots of useful skills and experience for my future career, especially what it is like to work in a team with young ambitious students. This sometimes is difficult but teaches us all how to improve our teamworking skills. 

                               At the age of twelve I built up a little farm for slugs in my room because I found a pregnant snail the had laid a few eggs. My very first own biological project ended when my mum took them all back to the wilderness while I was at school.  

                               As master student I left the wet lab to the undergraduate students to gain insights in the practical work and therefore I decided to be responsible for contacting companies, foundations, etc. Besides, as I like to be creative, I helped to outline a possible image film and filmed some sequences. It was a pleasure to sit 12h next to a camera filming a time lapse :)
                               


                               I joined the iGEM team since I got in touch with the iGEM competition at University of Tartu (Estonia) and was very impressed by the dynamic team and by the freedom to self-determining one’s goals and studies. As soon as I heard of the idea to start a team at Julius-Maximilians-University of Wuerzburg, I wanted to contribute to this project and help launching this first-time undertaking.

                               In Estonia I used to work together with a fashion model in the lab. My flip-flops that I wear during the summer always add a touch of vacation feeling to everyone I meet so in terms of fashion we are the perfect lab partners.

                               I joined iGEM because they put out a letter seeking for help in the rooms of the Faculty for the Department of Physics at our University.

                               When I'm not coding I perform on stage in various Metal, Rock and German Traditional Folk Musik Groups, e.g. OPA* Blasmusik.

                               Since the beginning of the iGEM project at our university I am an active team member responsible for social media and sponsoring. I report about the recent activities and events concerning our research by posting announcements and news from the lab on Facebook and Instagram thereby keeping everybody up to date. I also take over sponsoring tasks. 
                               

Organising our cake sales, where we introduced our project to the public and chatted with new people was great fun for me. 
                               

I am attracted by the challenge to create an entirely new research project from scratch and to be a pioneer. The development of a qPCR based rapid test system for the detection of plasmodium is a very promising and exciting venture that caught my interest and has been fascinating me ever since.

                               My team members had to figure out a fun fact for me.

                               Within our project I take care of issues like our public and visual appearance but also to our financing. I was fascinated by the fact that iGEM is not only about biology and laboratories but also includes other aspects like getting connected with companies and other teams. In order to leave an impact on them you need a good representation of your team. So iGEM gives me the perfect opportunity to unite two fields I am very passionate about: science and creativity. 
                               

I am indeed very proud and blissful to have the opportunity and the honor to be a member of the very first iGEM team of the University of Wuerzburg. It is amazing to see our project come to life while taking part in it. Not only the iGEM competition itself motivated me to join our team but also our own research topic. 

                               I am that one bartender in our night club people tell all their problems and stories because I am always listening and giving advice. 

                               At the beginning, I was particularly enthusiastic about the project: At that time, it was still a rather vague idea of a rapid test system that became adaptable. So, I did a lot of research for the team and looked for the positions where I could be most useful. Due to my previous education I found my place in editing and helped with applications and correspondence. 
                               


                               While working on the project, however, I was even more fascinated to see how students like me develop a project together - where the problems and limits lie and how different strengths can come to bear. I was particularly impressed by the will not to give up and to continue working despite everything. That's why it was important to me to make it known in the university's online journal, EinBlick.
                               


                               In closing: I am the philosopher of the team and always have an open mind, even when it comes to problems in the team.

                               On weekends I like to be outside with my horse.

                               As a medical student I was co-responsible for the ethics application which is required for every clinical study in Germany and which we need to receive inactivated Malaria positive human blood samples. I also worked on applications for academic funding and contacts to the faculty of medicine. To ensure that every member of the team who is aiming to work in the wet lab is able to precisely pipette a qPCR, I organized several team internal pipetting tests. 
                               


                               I joined the iGEM team Wuerzburg in order to have the possibility to plan and execute an experimental study from the beginning to the end. This year’s topic, developing a rapid detection system for Malaria, attracted my interest since I am impassioned by tropic diseases.

                               My last name means “laughing” in German.

                               As one of the student team leaders of our iGEM project I am involved in many organisational tasks like coordinating the project, designing applications for academic sponsoring, initiating cooperations with different institutes or introducing iGEM to students and professors at our university. Having taken over the position of the head of sponsoring I am working on creating synergies with companies and scientific sponsors. Additionally, I am working in the wet lab to achieve satisfying results for our project.
                               


                               As one of the founding initiators of our iGEM team it is a great pleasure for me that we have come to realise our enterprise to bring the iGEM spirit to the University of Wuerzburg. This great opportunity to further develop your academic career, improving your skills in the lab and getting to know synthetic biology lovers from all over the world can now be found at our university, thanks to iGEM!

                               Astrobiology is a fancy field of science.

                               In our iGEM team I am, next to Chiara, responsible for the InterLab Study with the purpose to get the same results from measurements in different labs and therefore be able to reliably build upon other’s work. In addition, I am a member of the sponsoring team and communicate with local companies to ask for donations for the team, which will be used for implements for our project or for participation fees for meetings.
                               


                               Malaria is a wide spread disease and therefore a cheap and rapid test can help to save lives through early distinguishment of Plasmodium species. I am proud to be part of a team managed by students with the goal to generate relevant data which is valuable for the improvement of health care. Also, it is a great chance to learn how to organize and conduct such a research project.

                               Before bumblebees sting, they raise their middle leg to warn the enemy. If these don’t react to this stop-signal, they turn around, show their sting and finally attack.

                               The first time, I’ve heard about iGEM, was when Rick asked me to think about a topic for a project in synthetic biology, that could be performed by students. I was highly motivated to take part in such a project because I haven’t done continuingly practical bioscience since my lab work at my school for biotechnology a few years ago. My activities were organization and home office tasks like sponsoring, hardware development and contributing to human practice by organizing our lecture series.
                               

It is quite an honor to be part of the first iGEM team from Wuerzburg. It is exciting to see how a research project is lead, equipped and developed at a very early point of my academic career. I hoped to experience the daily work of a scientist – and I was rewarded. That is why I also want to continue participating in the iGEM contest in the following years.

                               My hat is the inofficial mascot of our team. 

                               In our team I am a student team leader and hereby responsible for many organizational tasks, for example taking care of the ethics application and presenting the project to companies or scientists. Since I have some experience in using Inkscape, I designed our posters. Additionally, I supervise the bioinformatic part of our project. Furthermore, I worked in the wet lab. There I planned and executed experiments. We need a hardware device for our rapid test. That’s why I developed a concept for a Hardware and built it together with David.I joined the iGEM team to work on a project designed and executed by students. The new established team gives me the opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary research and increase my skills regarding project management. I am also exited to generate relevant data pushing our project forward. It is a great pleasure to take part in such an ambitious research project from the very beginning until it is finished.

                               I am a passionate collector of aquaria with or without inhabitants. One of them is even larger than my bed. Once I took over all the fish tanks of a pet shop so that there was not enough space for my bed any more.

                               I am helping to find more sponsors for the project. I joined the iGEM team because I was interested in being part of a research project that was not part of the regular curriculum and to gain some experience in teamwork as well as project planning and execution. 

                               Biology and Chemistry have been my two favorite subjects since I was 8 years old and I have never really wanted to do anything else.

                               Within our project I take care of the written and visual content, which is needed to present our research and our team to the public. I write and review texts for the wiki, social media and posters to attract attention to our work towards faster diagnosis of Malaria. 
                               Besides from creating content I work in the Human Practice division in our team. We initiated a lecture series opened to all interested students to contribute to the university’s  teaching program and to increase our recognition. Until now we had talks about Norovirus, Malaria and Primer- and Probe design. In the following semester I intend to expand our lecture series at our university give presentations in schools to encourage young students to get involved into science as soon as possible. 
                               


                               I joined the iGEM team to work on a research project that could result in huge benefit for many people around the globe. Through everybody’s personal effort we can improve diagnosis of malaria. My goal is it to further work on the malaria test system so that it actually can be used as a helpful tool to improve health care for everyone. By spreading information and communicating about science I would like to inspire others to join our mission.

                               I drink espresso in night clubs and run the city marathon in a suit. 

                               Initially I was primarily involved our sponsoring team asking for support from companies and foundations. Recently I was occupied with doing the InterLab Study with Anna.
                               


                               I joined iGEM to be part of this innovative experience from the beginning. Establishing the team here in Würzburg and working in a lab motivated me to join the team. The iGEM competition is a great opportunity and an inspiration for students to become more creative, think differently and solve problems on their own. It is a great idea to get students involved in lab work since they may have an unbiased approach to some problems.
                               


                               Developing a convenient rapid test system for the diagnosis of Malaria could grant a huge benefit to thousands of people infected with the disease around the globe with no access to a decent health care system. We therefore aim to design a hardware that is cheap and easy to use.

                               My cat’s second name is Drosophila. It’s not his first name, because my family was against this idea.