Meet the Team
Matthias Otto
Field of study: Molecular Biotechnology (M.Sc.)
Fun facts:
When he doesn't get enough sleep he tends to be quite bossy and likes to order people around.
Whenever he gets angry he needs a Snickers so that he doesn't become a diva.
iGEM low point/ what depressed me the most during iGEM: I tried to add a stop codon at the end of one basic part and failed multiple times because I just got colonies without the stop codon.
My iGEM highlight:The moment when I realized that the Human Ferritin has been detected in the MALDI TOF.
Irina Rais
Field of study: Biochemistry (B.Sc.)
Fun facts:
During a python programming course we attended for our modeling Irina scripted an endless loop and incapacitated the whole servers of our facility. The programming course had to be interrupted for the day and Irina was suspended from using our facilities servers by the admins.
What depressed me the most during iGEM: Working about 3 hours on a graphic on Inkscape just to hear from Christoph WHEN IT WAS ALMOST READY that we can just take it from Wikipedia - and we took the one from Wikipedia. Then I went out angrily to eat and imagined that the wrap was Christoph's head. I bit very hard.
iGEM low point/ what depressed me the most during iGEM: I tried to add a stop codon at the end of one basic part and failed multiple times because I just got colonies without the stop codon.
My iGEM highlight:All days with good lab memes and the days I was NOT knocking out genes with CRISPR Cas/9.