Team:Hannover/Team

iGEM Hannover 2020

Our Team

We are the third iGEM team from Hannover. This year, we are an interdisciplinary team of students from Leibniz University of Hannover and Hannover Medical School, who have joined together in NIFE (Lower Saxony Center for Biomedical Engineering, Implant Research and Development). Our team consists of 16 highly motivated students from different fields of study: biology, biochemistry, biomedicine, life science, nanotechnology and physics. We are actively supported by our supervisors Prof. Alexander Heisterkamp and Dr. Stefan Kalies. Let us introduce ourselves to you:

Team Member

Fiene Daniel 25

Human Practices, Coordination

Master in Biochemistry

Likes: Dogs

Fun fact: Is often mistaken for a man because of her combination of names

David Theidel 23

Software and Measurements, Coordination

Master in Physics

Likes: Making and listening to music

Fun fact: Loves 80s funk music

Celine Beckhausen 24

Public Relations, Coordination

Bachelor in Biology

Likes: Drawing, she is our Logo designer

Fun fact: She owns three Axolotls

Sören Donath 25

Cloning Experiments, Coordination

Master in Biochemistry

Likes: Football, handball and traveling

Fun fact: He is color-blind, which sometimes can be problematic in fluorescence evaluations

Lara Gentemann 28

Cloning and cell experiments, Coordination

Master in Biomedicine

Likes: Dogs, concerts and board games

Fun fact: She can measure small distances quite well without any tools, simply by holding both hands in the distance

Pia Peppermüller 25

Human Practices

Master in Life Science

Likes: Riding, swimming and Xletics

Fun fact: She has to sneeze when she eats something spicy

Timm Landes 24

Software and Measurements, Wiki Wizard

Master in Physics

Likes: Rowing, Bicycles, Science

Fun fact: Also Massive Douglas Adams Fanboy

Lisan Püttmann, 19

Public Relations

Bachelor in Life Science

Likes: Badminton, drawing and riding

Fun fact: She already worked in our iGEM team when she didn't even start to study

George Dati 29

Human Practices

Master in Biochemistry

Likes: Basketball and dancing

Fun fact: He used to be a member of the performing acts club in high school

Jan Mairose 23

Software and Measurements

Master in Nanotechnology

Likes: Cycling, bouldering, swimming and sailing

Fun fact: He had to repeat an exam even he got an A- just because he was not registered

Anna-Charleen Wessel 25

Public Relations

Master in Biology

Likes: Inline skating, gaming and her animals

Fun fact: She works in the iGEM-Team Hannover, but does not study in Hannover

Jonas Scholz 24

Cloning and cell experiments

Master in Biochemistry

Likes: His dog

Fun fact: He used to play transverse flute for 14 years

Louise Schaar 24

Public Relations

Master in Life Science

Likes: Dancing, baking and traveling

Fun fact: She joins iGEM for the second time

Thorben Klamt 24

Cloning, Software and Measurements

Master in Physics

Likes: Likes interdisciplinary projects, sports, playing guitar, learning new languages and loves backpacking.

Fun fact: Addicted to Mate

Laura Wesche 25

Cloning Experiments

Bachelor in Biology

Likes: Playing cello and riding

Fun fact: She has an own room for her rabbits

Manmeet Singh 27

Video Planning

Master in Optical Technology

Likes: Filming, photography, writing poetry, cooking and traveling

Fun fact: Onwes the same T-shirt 15 times and a Pullover 5 times

Supervisors

Alexander Heisterkamp

Prof. Dr. Alexander Heisterkamp

Professor and group leader of the group Biophotonics at the Institute of Quantum Optics at the Leibniz University Hannover and at the NIFE in Hannover.

"I am happy to participate in iGEM as it is a great environment for students to be creative and learn together as a team from one another. Being able to support those young people to push the boundaries in synthetic biology and molecular biology by addressing their own chosen challenges and problems is quite rewarding to me.“

Stefan Kalies

Dr. Stefan Kalies

Post-doc at the Institute of Quantum Optics and sub-group leader for microscopical imaging and cell manipulation at the NIFE in Hannover. His main research focus is the application of various optical tools, including special kinds of microscopy and laser-based cell manipulation, to better understand tissue regeneration and cell repair. Additionally, he is interested in a variety of biophysical topics and the connections to synthetic biology. He is supervising, advising, encouraging and always motivating us and our lab work. In his free time, he likes to play guitar and enjoys reading.

Instructor

Stefan Kalies

Prof. Dr. Jan Faix

He is the group leader of the Cytoskeleton Dynamics group at the Institute for Biophysical Chemistry at the Hannover Medical School. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms driving actin turnover in vital cellular processes following an interdisciplinary approach. He advised us during the cloning procedure and provided work material for our project.