Team:Tuebingen/Team
The iGEMers!
Flo
Team Position: Wetlab, Finance
Course of studies: B.Sc. Molecular medicine
Favourite Discovery: Evolution of Species
Fun-Fact: I spend most of my free time and money on my Computer
Anirudh
Team Position: WetLab, Finance, Human Practices
Course of studies: MSc Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology
Favourite Discovery: Genome editing, CRISPR
Fun-Fact:I have an unique tongue print and my stomach acid can dissolve metals.
That makes me a
superHUMAN
Aarón
Team Position: Wetlab, Social Media, Human practices
Course of studies: B.Sc Molecular Medicine
Favourite Discovery: Cloning
Fun-Fact:The initials of my full name almost result in my first name (Aarón
Alexander Refisch Ortegoza = A A R O )
David
Team Position: Wetlab, Orga
Course of studies: B.Sc. Biochemistry
Favourite Discovery: Penicillin
Fun-Fact: I have never worked in the lab before deciding to study Biochemistry.
Famke
Team Position: Advisor (Drylab, Finance)
Course of studies: Bioinformatics M. Sc, Nano-Science M.Sc.
Favourite Discovery: Life is short, eat dessert first.
Fun-Fact: I study two masters to avoid final decisions.
Sophia
Team Position: Weblab, Social Media
Course of studies: B.Sc Molecular Medicine
Favourite Discovery: Building houses on the moon
Fun-Fact: I often pretend to drink fancy stuff when actually I just refill a
fancy bottle with water.
Proud to be swabian ;)
Patrick
Team Position: Leader, Advisor
Course of studies: PhD Biotechnology
Favourite Discovery: Electron microscopy
Fun-Fact: Studying biology can take you to very interesting places, such as 81°
North or a human centrifuge.
Lukas
Team Position: Advisor
Course of studies: Bioinformatics M. Sc
Favourite Discovery: Blackholes!
Fun-Fact:I paid for my driver’s license with gaming.
Luise
Team Position: Weblab, Finance, Human Practices
Course of studies: Nano-Science M. Sc
Favourite Discovery: Sloths can die accidentally by lowering their bodies‘
activity too much
Fun-Fact: I speak seven languages
Lea
Team Position: Weblab, Finance
Course of studies: B.Sc. Molecular medicine
Favourite Discovery: Next Generation Sequencing
Fun-Fact: I always try to eat last what I like the most. Challenging when pudding
is layered „the wrong way“
Katja
Team Position: Weblab, Social Media, Human Practice
Course of studies: B.Sc Molecular Medicine
Favourite Discovery: fluorescent microscopy
Fun-Fact:I’m originally from Kiel. Another student from Germany asked me about my
“accent-free” German.
Turns out, they thought that Kiel is in Denmark.
Elisabeth
Team Position: Drylab, Orga
Course of studies: Bioinformatics M. Sc
Favourite Discovery: AlphaGo
Fun-Fact: You will never catch me without my bottle of tea!
Elias
Team Position: Wiki, Web-Dev, Drylab
Course of studies: Bioinformatics M. Sc
Favourite Discovery: You can eat the skin of a kiwi!
Fun-Fact: I can dislocate my thumb
Isi
Team Position: Wetlab, Human practices
Course of studies: B.Sc Mol. Medicine
Favourite Discovery: Penguins can dive to a depth of 550 meters and hold their
breath
for up to 22 minutes
Fun-Fact: I already broke my nose three times (but it was all at the same day)
Lucas
Team Position: Advisor
Course of studies: PhD Enviromental Biotechnology
Favourite Discovery: My new pet organism, Methanotherobacter thermautotrophicus,
that produces
methane and lives on a diet of H 2 /CO 2 at 65°C
Fun-Fact: Three of my fingers don’t have regular knuckles.
Andreas
Team Position: Wetlab
Course of studies: M.Sc. Microbiology
Favourite Discovery: You have more time to study if you don’t sleep
Fun-Fact:Some people draw black lines on regular masking tape when it’s their
first time autoclaving
Lina
Team Position: Advisor, Wet lab
Course of studies: Molecular Medicine M. Sc
Favourite Discovery: Prions
Fun-Fact:I need trash TV after a stressful lab day to reduce my brain activity to
a minimum.
Bené
Team Position: WetLab
Course of studies: BSc Nano-Science
Favourite Discovery: Shark-Antibodies
Fun-Fact:I began studying Nano-science because I was interested in Physics and
Chemistry – and
here I am, absolutely fascinated by molecular biology!
