Attributions
Our project would not have been possible without the contributions of many people both inside as well as outside of the iGEM support frame. We therefore would like to thank the following people and honor them for their support through these sometimes challenging times!
Principal Investigators
Dipl.-Biol. Dr.sc. Martin Altvater
For going above and beyond, what can reasonably be expected of a supervisor.
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Diethard Mattanovich
For supervising iGEM Boku Vienna and supporting the continued participation in this event as well as helping us with his expertise and experience in finding a fitting project.
Instructors
Michael Sauer, Ass.Prof. Dipl.Natw. ETH FH-Prof. Dr.
Brigitte Gasser, Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.
Alexandra Graf, Dr.
Jürgen Zanghellini, Dipl.-Ing. Dr.
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Hans Marx, Dipl.-Ing. Dr.
For giving us lectures about different aspects of synthetic biology. Through this, we received valuable information on different aspects of the iGEM competition which were extremely helpful for the planning phase of our project. Beyond that, we could approach them in case we needed some advice or guidance.
Advisor
Theodor Simak
For sharing his experience from last year with us and for always having an open ear for our problems.
Administrative help
For dutifully guarding our bank account and handling any monetary transfers for us.
Lab preparation/ -equipment, ordering
Ursula Kiesswetter - Lab preparation / -equipment, ordering
Christine Prenner (Dipl.-Ing Dr.) - Lab preparation / -equipment
Karin Frühwirth - Lab preparation / -equipment
Christiane Veit (Dipl.-Ing.) - Lab preparation / -equipment
Gabriele Wilt - ordering
For sharing their lab equipment stocks with us as well as taking care of our orders of necessary lab supplies.
Human Practices and Science Communication
MD. Dr. Gattringer
Dr. Alexander Belcredi from Phagomed
Dr. med. vet. Sandra Wienhold
Markus Aleschko, PhD and the staff of Biomin
BOKU kindergarten
elementary school Brünnerstraße 139, 1210 Vienna
For taking the time to talk to us about our project and providing us with valuable feedback.
Postcard design
For helping us with the design of our postcard for the collaboration with the iGEM team Düsseldorf
Wiki support
Rafael Starnberger
For helping us with the design and implementation of our wiki.
Promotion Video
IDEA: Benedikt Haslinger, Katja Starnberger, Lukas Pucher, Oona Jung
FILMING: Benedikt Haslinger
ANIMATION & VOICE: Katharina Ostertag
EDITING: Benedikt Haslinger
Presentation Video
IDEA: Benedikt Haslinger, Katja Starnberger, Oona Jung
STARRING: Dominik Wiesinger, Katja Starnberger, Oona Jung
FILMING: Benedikt Haslinger
ANIMATION: Katharina Ostertag
EDITING: Benedikt Haslinger
Team Members
Find more information about us on our Team site.
Oona Jung
Oona is the Student Leader of our team and has her nose in everything.
She keeps an overview over all the aspects of the project and makes sure the
deliverables are ready in time. Besides this, she helps researching, working in the
Wet and Dry Lab, organizes meetings and collaborations, and writes texts for newsletter and Wiki.
Lukas Pucher
Lukas is our Wet Lab Manager. Together with Katja, he takes care of everything that
happens in our lab and keeps the overview of our experiments.
This is associated with a
lot of research which he does together with Lukas Pranter. Additionally, Lukas is very
involved in our collaborations and writes texts for our newsletter.
Katja Starnberger
Katja is highly involved in everything! Not only is she managing our Wet Lab
experiments together with Lukas Pucher, but she also participates in the research
for our experiments and our Dry Lab, she helps planning the collaborations with
the partnering teams and she writes texts for our Wiki and the Newsletter to our sponsors.
Lukas Pranter
Lukas is our Head of Research. He coordinates the necessary research and develops
the plan of action for our time in the Lab. Through this, he is highly involved in
our cooperation with our partnering iGEM team of TU Delft.
Dominik Wiesinger
Dominik is our Head of Finances. He takes good care of the relationship
with our sponsors and the acquisition of new sponsors for our project.
He is also responsible for keeping track of our financial situation and
the ordering of lab equipment. Thanks to Dominik, all of our resources are available once we need them! Besides this, he also is a valuable researcher while planning the experiments, works in the lab and writes for our Wiki.
Benedikt Haslinger
Benedikt is responsible for our newsletter. He makes sure all the texts are collected in time, all the sponsors are mentioned, and the formatting looks appealing. He is also the author, director and
cutter of all our videos. Additionally, he helps with the research and lab work.
Katharina Ostertag
Kathi is our Social Media Manager. She is mainly responsible for all our posts on Facebook and Instagram. She animates our videos and takes care of our collaborations with other teams: for this
she plans and realises meetings and activities with our partnering teams. Additionally, she is a great
help in the lab!
Rajmund Kasbauer
Rajmund seems to know everyone in the field of Life Science. Thanks to him, we were able to have a meeting with the Start-Up PhagoMed and Dr. Gattringer and received valuable feedback about our
project. He is also helping Lukas Pranter with our research.
Samuel Oberreiter
Samuel is responsible to keep an overview over the medal criteria and make sure we plan our schedule accordingly. Besides this, he designs our images, helps Markus with the modelling part of
our project and is involved in researching.
Markus Strasser
Markus is our Dry Lab Manager. He is responsible for the parts of our project that
we want to model in silico. For this, he is involved in a lot of research and keeps
close contact to the Dry Lab Manager of our partnering iGEM team TU Delft.
Simon Wutzl
Simon is our IT Manager. He takes care of the design and implementation of our website and wiki.
Stella Karagiorgou
Stella is our Assistant Social Media Manager. She helps Kathi in developing
our posts for Facebook and Instagram and takes care of our collaborations.
She is very involved in the planning of meeting and activites.
Harriet Schober
Harriet is helping with literature research and writing for our Wiki .
Sponsors
All of this would of course not have been possible without the monetary and material contributions of our sponsors. We therefore would also like to thank the following companies for their, in many cases longterm support of iGEM BOKU Vienna:
