Team:Munich/Testflow


Sponsors

We'd like to thank our sponsors. With their generous financial support and helpful guidance, we were able to develop CascAID to be the project we had envisioned. Their sponsorship allowed us to make the most out of the iGEM-competition and attend the Giant Jamboree. We're glad we could call this companies our sponsors

Academic Sponsors and Institutions

Technische Universität München

One of Europe's premier universities, the TUM is an institution know worldwide for its excellence in education and research. With a strong focus on promoting new ideas and innovation, the TUM offers their students an impressive network of industry and academic partners around the world both during their studies and after graduation. Their accomplishments in teaching and research routinely award them top spots in national and international rankings.

Ludwig Maximillians Universität München

Founded in 1472, the LMU has since its beginnings been committed to offer their students outstanding education and promoting the discovery of new and innovative theories. By supporting their students and researches in their scientific endeavours, the LMU upholds this tradition to date, which shows in their reputation as one of the top universities in Europe and their recognition as University of Excellence in Germany. Upload correct logo

Nanosystems Initiative München

The NIM cluster is a member of the Excellence Initiative of the German government. Its goal is to bring together the expertise and experience of scientists in the fields of physics, biochemistry, electrical engineering and medicine among others to develop nanoscale building blocks and integrate them into coherent nanosystems with a wide and powerful range of applications. In addition, NIM promotes scientific careers by supporting student projects and offering graduate programs for young scientists.

GRK2062 Molecular Principles of Synthetic Biology

The GRK2062 is a Research Training group that provides an innovative PhD training program in Synthetic Biology with a focus in interdisciplinary education. By promoting collaboration of scientists in the fields of physics, biology and chemistry the GRK2062 has a wide array of research projects that properly mirror the interdisciplinary nature of Synthetic Biology. The communication between the different fields is facilitated thanks to the holistic programme of both practical and theoretical courses that the GRK2062 offers their doctoral researches. Upload right logo

Eurofins Genomics

Eurofins Genomics is an international provider of genomic services. With their proprietary technologies and protocols, they offer high quality next generation sequencing, gene synthesis, DNA oligos, RNA oligos and many other solutions all-around genomics. A comprehensive client support and an extensive portfolio makes Eurofins Genomics a strong partner for both research and industrial fields. Their over-night sequencing and oligo synthesis services were a great help for our project and their support for our team t-shirts is something we are greatly thankful for.

New England Biolabs

New England Biolabs provides many labs around the world with enzymes and a wide array of essential buffers for life sciences applications. As a industry leader, NEB has become one of the best suppliers for kits and enzymatic assays. We'd like to thank them for their products, as their enzymes played a central part on our experiments and their kits and assays were important benchmarks.

biomers.net

biomers.net specialises in the synthesis of oligonucleotides of all kinds. From primers to modified RNA-sequences, biomers.net is an amazing partner for all scientist working with nucleotides. Their rigorous quality control and helpful support make sure that biomers.net products are always a good choice. We are deeply thankful for their generous sponsorship, which allowed us to synthesise primers, target RNA and crRNA sequences, among others.

GATC Biotech

GATC Biotech is one of Europe's most renowned sequencing companies. Funded in 1990, they were one of the first providers of non-radioactive sequencing and have been innovating in the field ever since. Be it transcriptomics, genomics, single samples or whole genomes, GATC Biotech presents a high quality solution. Many thanks to GATC Biotech for offering their sequencing service to us and helping us validate our plasmids and biobricks.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences

GE Healthcare Life Sciences has the mission of pushing the medical field further by providing products and solutions ranging from nucleic acid research and microscopy to quality control and cell therapy. They also support and help develop new technologies that will be become future standards. We'd like to thank GE Healthcare Life Sciences for providing us with different membranes and materials that came to be an integral part of CascAID and for their guidance and consulting.

Integrated DNA Technologies

Integrated DNA Technologies is one of the largest manufacturers of oligonucleotides in the world, offering also solutions in genome editing, gene synthesis and sequencing. IDT is a reliable partner for oligo-synthesis and, thanks to its vast expertise and experience, delivers a high quality product in record time. Many of our cloning and sequencing primers were synthesised by Integrated DNA Technologies and without their help, this project wouldn't have been possible.

Promega

Promega is a worldwide provider of technical solutions for researches worldwide. With a wide portfolio of over 3000 products covering genomics, cellular expression and drug discovery among others, Promega is a strong partner for life sciences researches. Promega's proprietary technologies also present unique and powerful solutions for research and the development of new ideas. We thank Promega for their RNA purification kits and enzymes.

Qiagen

Qiagen is true to their Sample to Insight framework and offers assay technologies capable of delivering valuable and reliable insights. Qiagen has helped researches since the early days of biotechnology and contributed to the field greatly by cutting down hands-on time for fundamental procedures like plasmid isolation. As one of the many users of Qiagen's kits, we are thankful for their support and collaboration, specially in the field of plasmid purification.

Carl Roth

Carl Roth has provided laboratories around the word with quality equipment and highly pure chemicals for over 130 years. Measuring and optical instruments, cleaning products, laboratory appliances, but also chemicals for broth and gel preparation among much more, Carl Roth has everything a scientist needs. We thank Carl Roth for supplying us with great equipment and chemicals.

Scienova

Scienova is a company quickly raising to become a staple of sample preparation disposables. Specialising in disposable dialysis material, Scienova offers a simple and affordable solution to protein purification. We are greatly thankful to Scienova for providing us with their amazing dialysis membrane that we used for protein purification of Cas13a.

UnternehmerTUM

UnternehmerTUM is an awesome company with an awesome goal: help entrepreneurs to develop their ideas and make successful start-up out of them. UnternehmerTUM is a valuable partner for everyone with an idea and an ambition, as they provide support and guidance in each step of the way, from the initial plan to going public. Currently UnternehmerTUM helps start more than 50 start-ups yearly and counts with the collaboration of 10 industry partners. The financial support the people at UnternehmerTUM have given us is incredible and we can't thank them enough for it. Without them and the materials and instruction from MakerSpace, developing our hardware would've been impossible, so we thank them for that, too.