Team:DTU-Denmark/Attributions
We would like to give our warmest thanks to everyone that contributed to our project. Both for your contributions and for making it fun and interesting.
The team
| Part of project | Bira |
Cecilia |
Christine |
Cecilie |
Clara |
Daniel |
Lucas |
Margrethe |
Martí |
Niels |
Peter |
Timian |
Victoria |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BioBrick design | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| BioBrick assembly | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| Wiki Framework | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
| Wiki content | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Funding application | x | x | x | x | |||||||||
| Modelling | x | x | x | x | |||||||||
| Signal peptide prediction tool | x | x | |||||||||||
| Image analysis tool | x | ||||||||||||
| Growth prediction tool | x | x | |||||||||||
| Team building | x | x | x | x | |||||||||
| Human practices | x | x | x | x | |||||||||
| Public engagement/Outreach | x | x | x | x | |||||||||
| Experimental design | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| Experimental execution | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| Video production | x | x | x |
Bira took part in the Wetlab morphology experiments and feels very happy to enter the lab in the morning, in the afternoon she mostly worked on documenting and planning experiments. She contributed to the Economy group and wrote a few sections for Wiki.
Cecilia Desiree Visti Graae
Cecilia is our fermentation expert in the Wetlab team and she is very good at being in the lab for Protein Secretion Experiments outside working hours, more like, 1:00 am in the morning. She also takes great interest and participation in the Human Practices team.
Christine Pedersen
Christine enjoyed being in the lab doing the Morphology experiments, while in the afternoon she took the responsibility of planning and documenting our experiments. She is very fast when taking minutes for the meetings and she also made a great contribution to Human Practices.
Cecilie Amalie Neijendam Thystrup
Cecilie is one of our modelling experts, but a bit more relatable programmer than the normal ones. She is also our main protagonist in the videos and she took part in Outreach and Team Building activities. She brought our bagels a bit late for the Escape room event, but she is excused as she makes very good buns.
Clara Drachmann
Clara is another excellent programmer from our Drylab group. Other than contributing a huge deal to the Mycemulator model and signal peptide prediction tool, she helped in organizing fun activities for Team Building and she is very good with doing push ups, on the knees.
Daniel Bavnhøj
Daniel is good with trial and error and keeps pushing in the Wetlab for Protein Secretion experiments. He also did a very good job for funding applications but does not feel cold below the knees. Moreover, he made a huge contribution by adding the parts to the Wiki.
Lucas Levassor
Lucas is a rockstar in real-world but he is also a rockstar in the Wetlab, Protein Secretion group. His high fives after finishing the experiments slap differently. Moreover, he made a huge contribution to the Economy group and video production but mostly, a huge effort for adding Parts to the registry.
Margrethe Mærsk-Møller
Margrethe is another modelling genius and she made a great contribution to the growth predicting tool. Moreover, she helped the team very much by taking care of administrative tasks and bringing valuable elements like Science Communication to the project.
Martí Morera Gómez
Martí enjoyed working on morphology experiments in the Wetlab group even though it might be 8:00 pm in the evening. He also took part in the Human Practices group and contributed highly to the result analysis. He also made some really good food on the Sangria night at the summerhouse trip.
Niels MK
Niels is one of modelling experts who is gifted with multiple skills, whether be modelling in the image analysis tools, performing the administrative tasks, making funding applications in the Economy group or organizing events for Team Building.
Peter Bing Svendsen
Peter contributed immensely to the morphology experiments in the Wetlab group. He spent a lot of time mastering the monosporic purification. Moreover, he made huge contributions to the Human Practices, Team Building and video production.
Timian Rindal
If you have any questions about Wetlab, go to Timian. Moreover, she is a Rugby player who showed a lot of resistance against the failures in protein secretion experiments. She also helped establish important collaborations with other iGEM teams through the Outreach group.
Victoria Visby Nissen
Victoria loves the morphology experiments, you could see her cancelling her plans to stay later in the evening to contribute to the Wetlab group. She took part in the administrative activities and enjoys yoga with some very old people.
Supervisors
- Christopher Workman (Associate Professor, DTU Bioengineering) - Chris is the foundation of the DTU BioBuilders. Chris has many years of experience in iGEM, both as a supervisor and judge. He always has input and advice on every part of the project.
- Henrik Toft Simonsen (CEO of Mosspiration Biotech IVS & Associate Professor, DTU Bioengineering) - As the CEO and Founder of Mosspiration Biotech, Henrik has the ability to make you think in new directions within the project. He always provided valuable feedback on the project. He is always ready with a joke, even when you are not ready for it.
- Fabiano Contesini (Postdoc, DTU Bioengineering) - Fabiano has been our go-to guy for research and problem solving in the laboratory. When we struggled, he was our savior.
- Kyle Rothschild-Mancinelli (iGEM Alumnus and Ph.D. Student, DTU Bioengineering) - Kyle has been pushing us in several ways from start to finish on the project. He is always prepared with a challenge in the laboratory and with guidance and ideas for several aspects of the project.
External contributions to lab work and software modeling
- Uffe Hasbro Mortensen (Professor, DTU Bioengineering) - Provided theoretical counseling in regards to engineering and working with Aspergillus Niger. Uffe also provided the plasmids for our knockout design.
- Claus Sternberg (Associate Professor, DTU Bioengineering) - Provided access to and taught us how to use the confocal microscopy set-up.
- Jakob Blæsbjerg Hoof (Associate Professor, DTU Bioengineering) - Provided theoretical counseling in regards to engineering and working with Aspergillus niger.
- Kristoffer Bach Falkenberg (PhD student, DTU Biosustain) - Provided a protocol for the glucoamylase assay.
- Jannie Felskov Agersten (Laboratory Technician, DTU Bioengineering) - Contributed with lab training and purchase of lab supplies.
- Pablo Torres Montero (Lab technician DTU Bioengineering) - Gave us training in how to use biolectors.
- Henrik Nielsen (Associate Professor, DTU Healthtech) - Helped us outline the model for signal peptide prediction, and provided valuable information regarding the use of signal peptides in the industry.
- José Luis Martinez Ruiz (Associate Professor, DTU Bioengineering) - Allowed us access to fermentation core facilities at DTU and provided guidance for designing the Bioreactor experiments.
- Philip Hau Sørensen (iGEM Alumnus and M.Sc student, DTU) - Provided promoters for the project from DTU iGEM2019. He also provided overall design guidance.
- Peter Wad Sackett (Systems manager, DTU Healthtech) - Helped us set up accounts for a server where we could run our SignalPeptide-prediction program.
- Tina Johansen (Lab Manager, DTU Bioengineering) - Contributed with lab training and purchase of lab supplies.
- Irene Hjort Jacobsen (PhD student, DTU Bioengineering) - Provided guidance and protocols for Bioreactor fermentations.
Human practices
- Edyta Szewczyk (Senior Scientist, Bolt Threads) - Discussed the use of filamentous fungi in industrial applications with us and told us where we might get leads on previous work conducted by others.
- Dennis pultz (Senior bioinformatician, Novozymes) - Provided valuable input to the fungal simulation model and how it could be used in industry from his perspective as an expert bioinformatician.
- Jens Christian Frisvad (Professor at DTU, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine) - Helped us gain an in-depth understanding of the morphology of filamentous fungi and how we could tackle the challenges of reengineering morphology.
- Kenneth Jensen (Science Manager, Novozymes) - Provided very valuable information that helped guide the project in the design phase and in the final process of designing measurements to make our project industrially relevant.
- Kim Hansen (Senior science manager, Novozymes) - Informed us about challenges related to using filamentous fungi in industrial applications.
- Mhairi Workman (Associate Manager, Novo Nordisk) - Helped us gain an in-depth understanding of the preferred morphologies in industry settings and their uses. This valuable information helped in guiding our engineering choices.
- Morten Skov Jacobsen (Head of fermentation pilot plant, Novozymes) - Highlighted the industry interest in finding a solution for controlling the morphology of filamentous fungi.
Economy
- Rune Skou Larsen (Project Controller, DTU) - Helped with budgeting and fundraising.
- Anne-Katrine Regel Landbo (Project Coordinator, DTU Bioengineering) - Helped with budgeting and fundraising.
Outreach
- Outreach->Now - Cathrine la Cour and Carsten Meedom filmed and edited our promo video. They also provided feedback on our manuscript and filming gear for our presentation video.
- Mads Møller Madsen - Portrait and team picture photographer.
- Jonas Krogh Fischer - Provided his skills and assistance during the filming and editing of our presentation video.
- Nikoline Thystrup - Helped with some of the illustrations for the wiki.
Collaborations
- FCB-UANL - Over summer we collaborated with the iGEM team from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León iGEM in Mexico. This collaboration involved finding industry and public stakeholders for the other teams so that each team would have the possibility to get perspectives on their projects that otherwise might have been hard to obtain.
- Danish iGEM meetup - This year we participated in a meetup of all the danish iGEM teams. The event was hosted by SDU-Denmark, and allowed participants from all the teams to socialize and network. Furthermore, all the teams practiced public speaking and went through a wiki writing workshop.
- Coaching of Korea-HS - This year we collaborated with a Korean high school team, Korea-HS, which we advised and mentored on various questions about iGEM and synthetic biology in general. We also provided feedback on draft sections for their wiki before the wiki freeze.
