Attributions
General Support
Dr. Christian Rückert (2nd PI): participated in our weekly team meetings and helped us with advice and assistance.
Julian Droste (advisor), Boas Pucker (advisor), Svenja Vinke (advisor), Pascal Schmidt (advisor), Marten Linder (advisor) and Carsten Hain (advisor): Special thanks to our advisors for supporting and encouraging us to realize all our ideas.
Janina Lüders: We would like to thank her especially for the support conducting the panel discussion about Dual Use/Research of Concern.
Experts
Benjamin Lehner, M. Sc.
Dr. Jon Marles-Wright supported us with advice about the purification of the Ferritin protein.
Prof. Dr. José Argüello helped us a lot with good advice concerning the copper import system.
Dr. Rüdiger Gaydoul gave us expertise about waste water treatment and the cross flow reactor application system.
Prof. em. Dr. Kathryn Nixdorff supported us with a statement about Dual Use and Dual Use Research of Concern.
Dr. Piers Millet gave us insight about Dual Use and Dual Use Research of Concern in the iGEM context.
Dr. Manuela Lenzen supported us with a statement of her point of view about Dual Use and Dual Use Research of Concern.
Material, Constructional and Analytical Support
We would like to thank the Sequencing Core Facility at the CeBiTec for sequencing all our parts.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hütten helped us a lot with measuring our nanoparticles. He gave us advice on producing and manufacturing the nanoparticles.
Dr. Thorsten Seidel supported us by allowing us to use the fluorescent microscope.
Prof. Dr. Berthold Hoge, Michaela Schimmel gave us metal salts so that we could conduct several toxicity tests.
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Glaser also provided us with metal salts for our toxicity tests.
Prof. Dr. Alfred Pühler, Johanna Nelkner gave us the bacterium Pseudomonas brassicacearum which we used as a template for heterologous gene expression.
Prof. Dr. Kristian Müller supported us with lab equipment.
Dr. Michael Drobniewski Works for the RAG and invited us to the mine facility Prosper-Haniel to talked to us about the water quality in the coal mines stretching over a wide area underneath North Rhine Westphalia.
Dr. Dominik Cholewa helped us much with our bioreactor modelling
Dr. Andrea Viehhauser allowed us to use the sonication device.
Thomas Schäffer, Diplom Engineer helped us with the printing of our 3D model.
Simon Schultz, Diplom Informatics and Lars Reinhardt gave us the opportunity to use a special oven to sinter our nanoparticles.
Marina Simunovic, B. Sc. provided us with great design ideas.
Carola Eck helped us conducting our MALDI-TOF measurements.