We like to thank everyone supporting our project, small or large. Without the broad support
from all working groups and experts we contacted, in Bielefeld, Germany and even all over
the world, a project like this is impossible. Especially when, like in our case, there is
no expertise at the own university concerning the project. After several weeks of
brainstorming we decided to work on the expansion of the genetic code and every team member
learned a lot of new things from the several experts listed below. With the help from all
of them our team could come so far in this complex project.
Experts
Prof. Dr. Nediljko Budisa supported us with his expertise in the aaRS evolution and even inviting us to work on our project in his lab at the TU Berlin.
Dr. Florian Richter helped us a lot with his knowledge about ROSETTA and supported our modelling team with their project.
Iker Valle Aramburu, predoctoral fellow at the EMBL Heidelberg, supported us with his expertise in labeling non-canonical amino acids and participated at our conference.
General support
Prof. Dr. Jörn Kalinowski gave us the opportunity to participate in iGEM by providing us with our own laboratory and the resources of his work group.
Dr. Christian Rückert participated in our weekly team meetings and helped us over the whole time with advice and assistance.
Prof. Dr. Kristian Müller supported us with advice and equipment.
Julian Droste and Boas Pucker: A special thank you to our both advisors for supporting and encouraging us to realize all our ideas. A lot of supervisors would have advised us to choose an easier project or to focus only on a small part. Thank you so much for letting us be so creative and productive as possible.
Material, constructional and analytical support
The work group Microbial Genomics and Biotechnology allowed us to use their laboratories and equipment and showed great patience when we occupied many of the facilities.
Dr. Sandip Jadhav, Dr. Marcel Frese and Prof. Dr. Norbert Sewald: A huge thank you for helping us synthetizing our own non-canonical amino acid. Without you providing your lab and supervising us this part would have been difficult to realize.
Prof. Dr. Dario Anselmetti from the working group biophysics and nanoscience provided us equipment and expertise for all subprojects requiring biophysical methods.
Dr. Thorsten Seidel from the working group dynamic cell imaging provided us help with the fluorescence microscope and expertise in bio imaging and with the FRET system.
Prof. Dr. Dirk Lütkemeyer for his encouragement and tips regarding to the new chromatography method including the light elution.
Dr. Vera Ortseifen assisted us in preparing and measuring samples for the protein identification via MALDI-TOF/TOF.
Human practices support
Prof. R. Alta Charo is one of our quoted experts in the PAEX report and supported and encouraged us with her expertise in bioethics.
Prof. Sune Holm answered our questions concerning bioethics in the PAEX report.
