Team:Aachen/Attributions

iGEM Aachen - Attributions

Attributions

Thanks to everyone who supported us!



Although iGEM is a student competition in the first place and we as a team wanted to do as much as possible ourselves, M.A.R.S. would not have been possible without the help of other people. As we were not able to participate in a Synthetic Biology or even an iGEM course before entering the iGEM competition, we were happy about every advice we could get for the work in the lab, especially because most team members did not have any or only very little experience in the lab.

However, not only in the lab but also in many other areas, we sometimes lacked crucial knowledge and skills.
On this page we want to thank everyone who supported us in compensating this:


Furthermore, we want to thank everyone who energized M.A.R.S., be it by providing funding or by providing work space and materials.
Hover over a name to find out how the respective person or group helped us.
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Institute of Applied Microbiology - iAMB
Manja Kropp We want to thank for helping us with financial issues, making transfers from our account and organizing some of our ordering processes.
Dr. Helen Rosenkranz We want to thank for helping us with financial issues, making transfers from our account and organizing some of our ordering processes.
Kalle Hüser We want to thank for assistance in operating the centrifuges.
Dr. Hendrick Ballerstedt We want to thank for introducing us to their shaker with light.
Annette Schreer We want to thank for organizing some of our ordering processes.
Gisela Beissel We want to thank for organizing some of our ordering process.
Julia Schütte We want to thank for making bank transfers for us and for booking rooms at the iAMB when we needed them.
Dr. Monica Espinosa We want to thank for helping us to do the Western Blot.
Mariam Dianat Sabet Gilani We want to thank for providing us the yeast strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae CEN.PK113-17A.
Institute of Biotechnology - ABBt
Dr. Nurşen Sözer We want to thank for being our contact person in the Institute of Biotechnology and for assisting us in fundraising by writing official letters which prove our credibility.
Lilin Feng We want to thank for setting up the cell cultures when we were not yet allowed to enter the lab.
Dr. Leticia Celia
de Lencastre Novaes We want to thank for performing formation tests of 4 anchoring peptides on magnetic particles.
Yi Lu We want to thank for helping us with anchor peptide binding tests.
Sarah Zeschnigk We want to thank for helping with SDS-Electrophoresis and with everyday struggles.
Wiwik Bauten We want to thank for providing competent cells and answering a lot of questions.
Stefanie Brands We want to thank for helping us using the ultra centrifuge several times.
Jens Bührmann We want to thank for helping us with everyday struggles.
Osama El-Sepelgy We want to thank for guiding us in the chemical room.
Daniel Sauer We want to thank for helping us performing dialysis.
Dr. Felix Jakob We want to thank for providing advice on anchor peptides.
Christian Simons We want to thank for providing advice on anchor peptides.
Dr. Mehdi Davari We want to thank for support and advice in molecular dynamics simulation.
all other members of
the Schwaneberg Lab We want to thank for answering questions, whenever they arose.
Forschugszentrum Jülich
Prof. Dr. Dörte Rother We want to thank for giving us a very useful potential application for our bioreactor. Furthermore, we are grateful that she made her laboratory available to us for several experiments and was always available to answer our questions.
Dr. Torsten Sehl We want to thank for giving us a very useful potential application for our bioreactor. Furthermore, we are grateful that he was always available to answer our questions when we conducted our experiments in Jülich.
Douglas Weber We want to thank for his extensive help and support of our experiments at the Forschugszentrum Jülich.
Max Hünnefeld We want to thank for introducing us to the microscope.
Matthias Rieb We want to thank for helping us at the microscope.
Institute of Plant Physiology
Dr. Dimitri Neb We want to thank for helping us to do a Western Blot.
Support with creating deliverables
Christian Hartmann We want to thank for filming both our Project Promotion Video as well as our Project Presentation Video and for taking over the main part of the respective post production.
Sam Williamson We want to thank for recording the text we wrote for our promotion video.
Claudia Zhu We want to thank for designing our project logo.
Oleg Bekker We want to thank for designing our team logo.
Dr. Verena Resch We want to thank for helping us with the design of our project poster.
Further scientific advice
Sir John E. Walker We want to thank for a very instructive presentation about ATP Regeneration and for his feedback on our project M.A.R.S.
Prof. Dr. Jochen Büchs We want to thank of the AVT.Bio for providing us with useful ideas for our bioreactor.
Dr. Antje Gent We want to thank from Promega for providing advice on the selection of the laboratory materials used.
Dr. Ilia Platzman We want to thank for providing advice on the creation of lipid batches for better protein intergration in the resulting liposomes.
Former iGEM Aachen members
iGEM Team Aachen 2019 We want to thank for introducing us to the world of iGEM and for providing advice and information on demand.
Milan Sobota We want to thank for advising and helping us on the Bioaccelerator. He especially supported us in gaining support from professors.
Jan Biederbeck We want to thank for providing advice for the construction of our hardware and for answering some questions regarding financial organisation which came up during the last few months.
Yasmin Kuhn We want to thank for sharing her experience in fundraising with us and giving a brief introduction to common lab activities at the beginning of our project.
Alina Egger We want to thank for sharing her experience in fundraising with us.
Gereon Fischer We want to thank for providing advice on the iGEM parts registry and for giving a brief introduction to common lab activities at the beginning of our project.
Julian Ahl We want to thank for helping us every time any questions regarding our website or the iGEM Wiki occured.
Support with creating our crowdfunding video
Antonia Wrusch We want to thank for adding illustrative animations to our crowdfunding video.
Christoph Pietsch We want to thank for his advice in the post production of our crowdfunding video.
Filmstudio at the RWTH Aachen We want to thank for filming our crowdfunding video with us and providing their equipment for the shooting day.
Manuel Bürzl We want to thank for borrowing us his microphone for the sound recordings of our crowdfunding video.
Technical support
Stephan Detert We want to thank for his advice and education in IoT and network programming.
Nikola Petrovic We want to thank for creating our E-Mail template
On the other hand, we also did a lot of ourselves. We already started brainstorming and gathering ideas for possible projects at our first meeting on the 9th of January 2020. After some discussions with our PIs, we chose M.A.R.S. to be our project on the 17th of March 2020. On the same day, we officially started working on our project. However, due to the Corona pandemic, we faced a lot of challenges. The first, and probably most drastic, was that we were only allowed to enter the lab at the beginning of June. But these circumstances only fueled the creativity of our wet lab team, of which you can convince yourself with the authentic video on the right.

However, we did not spend this time just waiting, but used it for other activities. For example, we got into contact with other iGEM teams and planned our Human Practices and Science education subprojects. Furthermore, we used online tools to talk to scientists in the course of integrated Human Practices and designed our lab schedule in a very detailed manner. Thus, we were able to work very efficiently once we have been allowed to enter the lab.
Last but not least, we want to thank our sponsors.
Without their generous financial support, we would not have been able to implement our ideas.
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MSE

This project was funded by the "Hans Hermann Voss-Stiftung"

Furthermore we want to thank the following supporters for providing workspace and lab materials in a time in which both were not easy to get.