Team:Bielefeld-CeBiTec/Team
Team members
Favorite organism:
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
Great opportunities to reduce a lot of issues in the world
Person in a nutshell:
Pizza is the answer for everything
This is what I still want to do in my life:
Visit the giant redwood trees in California.
Angelika Urban
Biology (Bachelor of Science)
Favorite organism:
homo sapiens
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
It´s a field that develops quickly and offers a wide variety of applications.
Benjamin Julian Saalfeld
Molecular biology (Bachelor of Science)
Favorite organism:
water bear (Tardigrada)
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
Synthetic biology gives the opportunity to solve problems of major issues
Person in a nutshell:
I am planning the plan for planning.
This is what I still want to do in my life:
Build or support a foundation for the protection of the last wild Orang-Utans.
Janine Dippel
Interdisciplinary Biomedicine (Master of Science)
Favorite organism:
Glaucus atlanticus (blue ocean slug)
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
The possibility to get a better understanding of the fundamental processes of life.
Person in a nutshell:
I even overthink my overthinking!
This is what I still want to do in my life:
Travel to the polar circle on a research vessel.
Laura Keller
Genome Based Systems Biology (Master of Science)
Favorite organism:
Haematococcus pluvialis
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
Diverse possibility for application
Person in a nutshell:
reliable
This is what I still want to do in my life:
Stop the climate change
Leon Diel
Bioprocess Engineering (Bachelor of Science)
Favorite organism:
yeast
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
The interaction of biology and engineering to produce innovative technologies and solve problems
Person in a nutshell:
communicative
This is what I still want to do in my life:
visit another continent
Marvin Geisler
Molecular Cell Biology (Master of Science)
Favorite organism:
Noctiluca scintillans
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
It‘s a bit like Lego. You take different building blocks to build something new or add blocks to an existing building to improve it
Person in a nutshell:
a little bit chaotic
This is what I still want to do in my life:
Travel to Denmark by bike and then go kite surfing there
Melina Müller
Bioinformatics and genome research (Bachelor of Science)
Favorite organism:
Aspergillus flavus
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
The numerous opportunities that help to solve a variety of issues
Person in a nutshell:
sunshine mixed with a little hurricane
This is what I still want to do in my life:
fly to the USA
Neele Kusch
Molecular Cell Biology (Master of Science)
Favorite organism:
Physarum polycephalum
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
I like to combine living problems with living solutions.
Person in a nutshell:
I take every chance in life.
This is what I still want to do in my life:
I want to establish my own company and write a book.
Niko Klassen
Biology (Bachelor of Science)
Favorite organism:
Staphylococcus aureus
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
The diversity of creating something new in order to achieve great things
Person in a nutshell:
The man of action, even when things go wrong
This is what I still want to do in my life:
Traveling the world
Philipp Kühnel
Genome Based Systems Biology (Master of Science)
Favorite organism:
paramecia
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
Better understanding of biological systems without disturbing nature directly.
Person in a nutshell:
Open for the Unknown
This is what I still want to do in my life:
Buy a van and travel Europe
Ramon Luna Stollmeier
Biology (Bachelor of Science)
Favorite organism:
Paramecium aurelia
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
The fact that one can extract and re-use various proteins from different pathways and from different organisms and thus develop a new synthetic system
Person in a nutshell:
I´m quite big.
This is what I still want to do in my life:
Driving and using an excavator just for fun.
Stephan Weber
Molecular Cell Biology (Master of Science)
Favorite organism:
Ambystoma mexicanum
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
It's interdisciplinarity.
Person in a nutshell:
Mindmapping every eventuality.
This is what I still want to do in my life:
Visiting the rest of the world where I haven‘t been yet.
Tamara Folk
Molecular Biotechnology (Master of Science)
Favorite organism:
Naegleria fowleri
What inspires me about synthetic biology?:
What I like most about synthetic biology is that one can create things that did not exist before, thus finding solutions for problems which seemed to be impossible to solve a few decades ago.
Person in a nutshell:
Childish curious combined with pretty bad sense of humor describe me best, I guess.
Tim Kettler
Biology (Bachelor of Science)
Supervisors
Dr. Christian Rückert
Prof. Dr. Joern Kalinowski
Laura Schlüter
Markus Haak
Pascal Schmidt
Svenja Vinke