| Annabel Maisl |
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| Field of study |
Biomedicine |
| Semester |
5th Semester |
| Contribution |
Student team leader, Head of sponsoring, Organising team, Wet lab |
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As one of the student team leaders of our iGEM project I am involved in many organisational tasks like 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 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 Würzburg. 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!
Fun Fact: I am passionately collecting lichens. |
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| Chantal Heckwolf |
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| Field of study |
Biology |
| Semester |
5th Semester |
| Contribution |
Sponsoring, Social media |
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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. Hereby a cake sale is a pleasurable matter.
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. |
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| Chiara Wolfbeiß |
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| Field of study |
Biology |
| Semester |
5th Semester |
| Contribution |
Sponsoring, Interlab study |
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I have been a team member from the very beginning. Initially I was primarily involved in getting financial 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 get 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.
Fun fact: My cat’s second name is Drosophila. It’s not his first name, because my family was against this idea. |
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| Johannes Weber |
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| Field of study |
Biomedicine |
| Semester |
5th Semester |
| Contribution |
Head of Human Practice, Wiki |
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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. By spreading information and communicating about science I would like to inspire others to join our mission.
Besides from creating content I am the head of the Human practice division in our team. We initiated a lecture series opened to all interested students to contribute to the universities teaching program and to increase our recognition. Until now we had talks about Norovirus, Malaria and Primer- and Probedesign. In the following semester I intend to expand our engagement for education continuing the iGEM lecture series at our university but also by giving presentations in a more public setting and reaching out to 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.
Fun Fact: I drink espresso in night clubs and run the city marathon in a suit. |
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| Nicole Banholzer |
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| Field of study |
Biomedicine |
| Semester |
5th Semester |
| Contribution |
Head of organizing team, Bioinformatics, Head of wet lab |
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I am the student team leader of our iGEM project. Thereby I organize the meetings and distribute all the arising tasks taking over many of them myself. I was involved in the composition of various sponsoring applications and the ethics application. In addition, I am responsible for the coordination of the lab work which includes carefully planning the experiments and being present in the lab as often as possible. Together with Rick I worked on most of the bioinformatic tasks to analyse the alignments to find suitable primers.
By initiating the formation of our team and working on the first iGEM project I would like to gain experience in the lab and to organize a research project through my own efforts. I want to establish the iGEM contest at our university for the long term.
Fun fact: In all situations regardless of time, temperature and location I drink tea. My thermos flask is my most faithful companion. |
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| Nicole Banholzer |
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| Field of study |
Biology |
| Semester |
5th Semester |
| Contribution |
Member of organizing team, Head of bioinformatics, Wet lab |
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In our team I am responsible for many organizational tasks, for example taking care of the ethics application which is granting us permission to use human blood samples to validate our test system. Since I have some experience with Inkscape, I designed our poster for the European Meetup in Munich. Additionally, the bioinformatic part of our project is supervised by me, which involves searching for suitable sequences in the genome of plasmodium, calculating complex alignments to find matching primers. I also spent a lot of time in the wet lab.
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.
Fun fact: 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. |
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| Susanna Lach |
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| Field of study |
Medicine |
| Semester |
3rd Semester |
| Contribution |
Wet lab, Ethics application |
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As a medical student I was co-responsible for the ethics application which is required for every clinical study in Germany and which we needed to get 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 Würzburg 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.
Fun Fact: My last name means “laughing” in german. |
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| Nicole Banholzer |
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| Field of study |
Biomedicine |
| Semester |
5th Semester |
| Contribution |
Head of organizing team, Bioinformatics, Head of wet lab |
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I am the student team leader of our iGEM project. Thereby I organize the meetings and distribute all the arising tasks taking over many of them myself. I was involved in the composition of various sponsoring applications and the ethics application. In addition, I am responsible for the coordination of the lab work which includes carefully planning the experiments and being present in the lab as often as possible. Together with Rick I worked on most of the bioinformatic tasks to analyse the alignments to find suitable primers.
By initiating the formation of our team and working on the first iGEM project I would like to gain experience in the lab and to organize a research project through my own efforts. I want to establish the iGEM contest at our university for the long term.
Fun fact: In all situations regardless of time, temperature and location I drink tea. My thermos flask is my most faithful companion. |
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| Nicole Banholzer |
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| Field of study |
Biomedicine |
| Semester |
5th Semester |
| Contribution |
Head of organizing team, Bioinformatics, Head of wet lab |
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I am the student team leader of our iGEM project. Thereby I organize the meetings and distribute all the arising tasks taking over many of them myself. I was involved in the composition of various sponsoring applications and the ethics application. In addition, I am responsible for the coordination of the lab work which includes carefully planning the experiments and being present in the lab as often as possible. Together with Rick I worked on most of the bioinformatic tasks to analyse the alignments to find suitable primers.
By initiating the formation of our team and working on the first iGEM project I would like to gain experience in the lab and to organize a research project through my own efforts. I want to establish the iGEM contest at our university for the long term.
Fun fact: In all situations regardless of time, temperature and location I drink tea. My thermos flask is my most faithful companion. |
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