Attributions
Team Members
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Anna
Anna is a member of the public relations group where she did the weekly fun fact with information related to our project and synthetic biology in general. She also helped with the communication and with the live baking workshop. Furthermore, Anna helped with the translations and testing for the board game. -
Céline
Céline designed our team logo and did all the artwork for our project, including the design of our team t-shirts, the postcard cartoon and the entire board game. Also she helped to produce the team video for the German meet up, our part for the iJET video and our team photos. Moreover she was involved in the lab work, finding sponsors and took care of the coordination of the whole team. In addition she is part of our public relations team, where she creates content for our social media, and was responsible the day we took over the Promega account. Furthermore, she came up with the idea for our iGEM roll which we baked in a live workshop. As Easter special, she did the Easter egg drawing. Furthermore, Céline was our participant at the fame lab competition. -
Fiene
As one of the initiators of our project, Fiene is responsible for Hannover participating in the iGEM Contest. In her role as a student team leader, she had a key role in structuring our Team and project. Furthermore, Fiene organized and conducted interviews with experts, evaluating our project from the perspective of Human Practices. She represented our project in public by giving talks and maintaining contact with sponsors and our PI. -
Pia
Pia is a member of the Human Practices Group. She did research, prepared the interviews and also did the following evaluations. She wrote the surveys and also did a lot of planning. Apart from being the female person to turn to with any kind of problem, she helped the public relations team to take over the Promega account and with the board game. -
Sören
Sören took care of the coordination and was also the contact person for any kind of problem. Furthermore, as one of our student team leaders, he was also involved in the search for sponsors. In the laboratory Sören was responsible for the organization and implementation of cloning. He also prepared our safety form. -
George
George is a member of the Human Practices Group and can be seen in our videos as a moderator. George also helped with translations and proofreading. He further helped the public relations group as a moderator for the chat at the live workshop. -
Jonas
Jonas planned and carried out the cloning as a member of the experimental and cloning group. He made research on promoter design and with the help of Sören, Stefan and Lara he designed two new promoters which will be tested in our project. He also helped with all other laboratory work. -
David
As being one of the student team leaders and the treasurer, David played a meaningful part in organizing our project. By establishing contact to sponsors and presenting our project at talks, he represented our team in the public. Additionally, David was involved in the experimental planning and realization of the microfluidic magnetophorese chamber. He also played a crucial role in developing our model and software tool in collaboration with the Team from the TU Darmstadt. -
Thorben
Thorben is a member of the cloning group and helped to create the concept for our sensor. Therefore, he also conducted the first experiments. Furthermore, he developed the first 2D simulation paths together with David and Timm and took over the physics and programming of the 3D simulation. This resulted in the cooperation with the TU Darmstadt. -
Lisan
Lisan is a member of our public relations team and therefore reported about our weekly progress report of the laboratory work. She was also responsible for the flashmob collaboration and participated in the acquisition of the Promega account, where she took the pictures and wrote the texts. Lisan also helped the Human Practice Group with finding interview partners. Furthermore, she supported Celine with the price calculation for our team's t-shirts. -
Lara
Lara is a member of the experiments and cloning group. She has done a large part of the implementation of our cloning in a cellular context. Furthermore, she helped to plan and perform the cloning, but mainly she transfected HeLa cells with our genetic constructs to characterize the individual sensor parts. Furthermore, as one of our student team leaders, she is a member of the organization group, where she helped to find our sponsors, among other things. She also supported the creation of the video for the GASB video competition and presented our poster at the German iGEM-Meet-Up. -
Jan
As a critical thinker, Jan contributed to our project early on by questioning our sensor concept and contributing forward-looking comments. As an important member of the software and measurement team, he brought experience from his studies and work at the institute. He is responsible for the design and realization of the microfluidic chamber. In an effort to continually improve our experimental setup, he designed and printed several designs using 3D printing. -
Timm
Timm is the main creator of our website and our wiki wizard. In the project he helped to develop the simulations and the measuring chamber. Timm was also involved in the cooperation with the iGEM Team Darmstadt and a HTML wiki workshop with the iGEM Team Bielefeld. -
Louise
As part of the public relations team Louise introduced our team members and worked on content creation. She also organized the communication with other iGEM teams and our cooperation partners. Furthermore, she did a lot of translations and text writing. Louise was part of the presentation team. Beside from public relations Louise helped with our videos and with the interviews. -
Laura
Laura is part of the group for the general organization. She helped with the creation of our board game and supported the public relations team at our live baking workshop. -
Manmeet
Manmeet planned, organized and produced our trailer video as well as our final video.
Supervisors and Advisors
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Dr. Stefan Kalies
Stefan provided supervision and guidance throughout the entire project for the team. By giving inspiring remarks to the team members he kept up the motivation over the last year, especially through the crucial and strenuous parts of the project. With a positive attitude and patience, he was able to bring out the best of each team member. -
Prof. Dr. Alexander Heisterkamp
Prof. Dr. Heisterkamp provided supervision and guidance. He has made the laboratory space of his working group available to us. Besides that, he always helped us with words and deeds and supported us in terms of organization and content. -
Prof. Dr. Jan Faix
Prof. Dr. Faix advised us during the cloning procedure and provided work material including vectors, cloning kits and chemicals for our project.
Institutions
We would like to express our gratitude to everybody who has helped us with our project. Thank you to enable us to participate at the iGEM competition 2020.
Leibniz University Hannover
Shaping the Future with Knowledge – as one of the nine leading Institutes of Technology in Germany, Leibniz University is aware of its responsibility in seeking sustainable, peaceful and responsible solutions to the key issues of tomorrow. Our expertise for this stems from the broad spectrum of subjects, ranging from engineering and natural sciences to architecture and environmental planning, from law and economics to social sciences and humanities.
In particular we like to express our special thanks to:
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Leibniz Universitätsgesellschaft
For providing us with a bank account, sponsoring us and providing help with the account management, bookings and bills. -
Unikik team
Ina Fedrich and Swantje Ludwig, who made it possible to perform the Gauß AG and provided us with their network with more than 200 schools from the region Hannover to promote our board game. They have also always helped us with our educational projects.
Hannover Medical School
The Hannover Medical School (MHH) is a maximum care hospital with a nationwide catchment area. The university teaches medicine, dentistry, biochemistry, biomedicine, midwifery and health sciences. The main research areas are Transplantation and Stem Cell Research / Regenerative Medicine, Infection and Immunology Research, Biomedical Engineering and Implant Research.
In particular we like to express our special thanks to:
- Dr-Ing. Thomas Rau and his research group "COMPUTER-ASSISTED SURGERY" (AG CAS) for providing help with 3D-printing and laboratory equipment.
NIFE - Lower Saxony Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Implant Research and Development
With the Lower Saxony Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Implant Research and Development (NIFE) in Hanover, the region and the federal state of Lower Saxony cement their status as one of the leading locations internationally for biomedical research and development. NIFE was founded by the Hannover Medical School (MHH), the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation (TiHo), and the Leibniz University of Hannover (LUH) in cooperation with the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH). The aim of the centre is to bundle transdisciplinary research and development focused on implant research in Lower Saxony in one institution.
In particular we like to express our special thanks to:
- Tanja Hesse and Dr. Tilman Fabian who made it possible to present our project to a wide audience at the symposium and at the Christmas party of NIFE. In addition, they have made it possible for all laboratory activities, filming and iGEM meetings to take place at NIFE. They also provided us with props from the medical area for the video and supported us in general organizational activities.
- NIFE research group "IMPLANT-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS" (AG Stiesch), for giving us access to their plate reader for quantitative luminescence readout.
Individuals
Special thanks to our Interview partners for answering all our questions and giving advice for our project:
- Prof. Dr. Jens Boch, Leibniz University Hannover
- Dr. Katharina Doll, Hannover Medical School
- Prof. Dr. Stichtenoth, Hannover Medical School