We thank the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, the Limes Institute Bonn and the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg for providing us with laboratory space, materials and funding.

Scientific supervision

We are very grateful to Prof. Dr. Günther Mayer and Prof. Dr. Michael Famulok of University Bonn for supervising this project. We would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Klaus Lehmann of HBRS for his resourceful and unlimited support.

We want to thank Prof. Dr. Tanja Schneider and Dr. Anna Klöckner for the generous help and supervision regarding the binding assay experiments.

Lab support

Our dearest thanks go to our instructor Ignacio Geraci and all the other Post-Doctoral Fellows, PhD students and technicians of Professor Mayer’s and Prof. Famulok’s laboratory, especially Thinhinane Chaou, Laia Civit, Laura Eiden, Jeffrey Hannam, Mark Kerzhner, Daniel Matzner, Franziska Pfeiffer, Anna Pyka, Christian Renzl, Malte Rosenthal, Anna Schüller, Julia Siegl, Justina Stark, Jörg Ewers, Sebastian Pilsl, Silvana Haßel and Olga Wolter for their help and patience. A special thanks goes out to Ignazio and Olga for their help in planning the SELEX experiments. We would also like to give dear thanks to Phillip Langel and Stefan Künne for their support for orders.

Project planning

Balthasar Schlotmann - IT, Construct design
Jonas Gockel - S2 experiments
Kenneth Wolters - Construct design
Lars Melcher - Project idea
Michael Teske - IT, Wiki
Nico Reusch - SELEX
Simon Pflug - Enzyme Assays

Human Practices

Ariana Natalie Klappert
Balthasar Schlotmann - School visits
Fiona Roß - Panel discussions
Jonas Gockel
Laura Lang - School visits
Michael Teske - Survey
Nico Reusch - Science Slam
Sarah Phoebeluc Colaiuta
Yara Nabawi

We thank the Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar) for providing the venue for our science slams and contact to the public!

Sponsoring

Laura Lange
Michael Teske - Crowdfunding
Nico Reusch
Yara Nabawi

We greatly thank the people who supported us over our crowdfunding campaign! Especially:

James Gallagher
Sharon, Josh & Christian Wolters

Design

Michael Teske
Nemanja Stijepovic - designed postcards and posters

We thank a lot Ebtihal Ibrahim for our logo design!

Fallen Heroes

We would like to thank our former team members, who are no longer part of the team, yet whose contributions are highly appreciated: Alina Siebenmorgen, Gintare Malininaitė, Kevin Jens Schäfer, Triinu Linkgreim and Tsang Long Hin (David).

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Attributions

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