Shanti was one of this year’s team leaders and engaged with the development and execution of our project idea. He chose our target organisms Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae and the corresponding siderophores and genes. Furthermore, he designed our BioBricks and spend most his time in both the S1 and S2 labs to supervise and perform the experiments. His responsibilities included the organisation of the chemistry labs and the S2 lab and the communication with our cooperation partners and guest speakers.
He arranged a lot of the preparations and execution of our Human Practices activities. He also had a part in sponsoring, writing our Wiki and established himself as contact person for everybody. If you have any questions or problem – he’s your man!

Elli was also a team leader mostly in charge of sponsoring, Social Media and lend a hand with our wiki and the lab work in the S1 and S2 life science labs and the cell culture. She responsible for the crowd funding campaign and involved in all legal matters and support for our sponsors.

Alina was one of our two vice team leaders this year. She worked in the S1- and S2- lab. She was also involved in sponsoring, our wiki and human practices.

Valerie was our golden girl and sponsoring queen involved in everything organising. She spent every free minute in the labs where she proved herself (basically) irreplaceable. She took care of keeping everything in order and made sure we did not descend into chaos. Besides she found time to work on our wiki (and harassing everybody into keeping the lab books updated) and helped organising our Human Practices activities.

Geoffrey is a true organisation talent and knows probably more people than all our team members together. Consequently, he took charge of our Human Practices, made contacts and wrote application letters for our events. Despite not having a background in science, he joined the lab team and helped in sponsoring and writing of our wiki. He also assisted with several cooperations.

Ruth has a rare gift for numbers and took care of all our finances and accounting, which she did formidable. She was involved in basically every part of our project and spend a considerable amount of time in the S1 and S2 labs, helped with sponsoring and wrote parts of our wiki. She also kept team spirit alive thanks to her amazing baking skills.

Guillermo worked in the S1 and S2 lab. He wrote on our wiki and generously shared the chocolate he always had in his coat and that helped to prevent the occasional nervous breakdown. Also without him we would have probably starved, as he always prepared and organized food for everyone.

Annika is a treasure in the lab. She kept the work in the S1 lab alive and moved in the S2 lab later. She helped with the sponsoring too and worked on our wiki.

Desiree was a real help in the lab. She worked mainly in the S1 lab and took charge of the S2 lab every now and then lab. She was involved in sponsoring and the wiki and made sure we took a break to have lunch during lab hours.

Franzi worked in the S1 lab and helped with the sponsoring.

Svenja was involved I the S1 lab work and helped with the sponsoring and our wiki.

Kutte worked in the S1 and S2 lab and helped with sponsoring and the wiki.

Carla performed a chemical synthesis of desferrithiocine, helped in the S1 lab, with sponsoring and managed the ordering of the chemicals.

Jan-Christian synthesised the siderophor nor-pyocheline and performed the complexation with gallium. He also helped in the S1 lab, with sponsoring and writing our wiki.

Martin worked on two ways to synthesise the siderophore pyocheline to determine how to achieve the best yield. He was involved in sponsoring and the wiki too.

Tim helped to develop the nano part of our project and established the contact to Prof. Trebbin, who supervised the nanoscience project. He also helped with sponsoring.

Nico developed the PDMS chip, the membrane and the microfluidic device with Ramakrishnan, a doctorate student in our supervising group. He also helped in the S1 and S2 labs, with sponsoring and the wiki. He organised the system for the pump and the devices.

Sören worked in the S1 lab, helped with the sponsoring and the organising of the pump for the nano experiments. He also wrote part of our wiki and was involved in public relations.