<p><strong>Prof Dr. Matias Zurbriggen (Institute for Synthetic Biology, HHU)</strong>, our primary PI, who supported our team in getting started this year and helped us find a suitable and realizable topic. Furthermore, he provided us with theoretical knowledge and valuable input regarding our project during weekly meetings with our three team representatives. He also provided us with chemicals and consumables, whenever something was missing in our lab. </p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Gunther Döhlemann (Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, UzK)</strong>, one of our secondary PIs, who provided our team in Cologne with a lab to work in as well as equipment and consumables. Furthermore, we would like to thank all members of the institute for their assistance with experiments.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Andreas Weber (Institute for Plant Biochemistry, HHU)</strong>, our secondary PI from Duesseldorf. For the second time he was a great mentor and contact person for many aspects of our project. He played a big role in helping us find our topic, supported us with valuable theoretical knowledge as well as organizational issues, especially regarding the planning and implementation of our SynBio conference.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof Dr. Matias Zurbriggen (Institute for Synthetic Biology, HHU)</strong>, our primary PI, who supported our team in getting started this year and helped us find a suitable and realizable topic. Furthermore, he provided us with theoretical knowledge and valuable input regarding our project during weekly meetings with our three team representatives. He also provided us with chemicals and consumables, whenever something was missing in our lab. </p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Martin Mauve (Dean, HHU)</strong> for providing our team with a common room to work in. Furthermore he approved a generous financial grant from the Heinrich Heine University.<p>
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<p><strong>Brigitte Haumann (CEPLAS, HHU)</strong> for being our team’s guardian angel. She helped us with the entire organization of the project outside of lab, including fundraising and financial administration, registration, booking flights (and amending the booking multiple times) and a lot more. Most of all we would like to thank her for her moral support and her undying iGEM spirit.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Stefanie Zeretzke (UzK)</strong> for administering the project in Cologne, including dealing with all bureaucratic problems, finances and general administration.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly (Institute for Plant Cell and Biotechnology, HHU)</strong> provided our team with an entire lab in Duesseldorf. Furthermore he more than generously supported us with all the equipment and consumables we needed for our work.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Stanislav Kopriva (Botanical Institute, UzK)</strong> supported the team with work space in his laboratory as well as chemicals and equipment.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Michael Feldbrügge (Institute for Microbiology, HHU)</strong> for his general advice and for constantly providing us with lab equipment whenever required.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Ilka Axmann (Institute for Synthetic Microbiology, HHU)</strong> for her help in building the new iGEM team and choosing this year’s research topic.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Lutz Schmitt (Institute for Biochemistry, HHU)</strong> for his generous financial support.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Thomas Klein (Institute for Genetics, HHU)</strong> for providing us with a dark room for our optogenetics experiments.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Thomas Langer (Institute for Genetics, UZK)</strong> for providing us with funds to set up the laboratory in Cologne.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Gunther Döhlemann (Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, UzK)</strong>, one of our secondary PIs, who provided our team in Cologne with a lab to work in as well as equipment and consumables. Furthermore, we would like to thank all members of the institute for their assistance with experiments.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nicole Linka (Institute for Plant Biochemistry, HHU)</strong> for her invaluable advice on working with peroxisomes. She invested a lot of time and effort into sharing her knowledge and pushing our project forward.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Ralf Erdmann (Systems Biochemistry, Ruhr University Bochum)</strong> and his colleagues for taking the time to introduce us to working with peroxisomes and providing us with knockout strains we needed for our project.</p>
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<p><strong>Jun.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Ebenhöh (Institute for Quantitative Biology, HHU) & Prof. Dr. Holger Gohlke (Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry, HHU)</strong> supported both, our modeling and hardware teams with expertise and materials, especially 3D printing. Furthermore, he generously provided the funds for our hardware.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Vlada B. Urlacher & Dr. Marco Girhard (Institute for Biochemistry II, HHU)</strong> for their advice on working with Nootkatone.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Maike Wirth (Molecular Devices)</strong> for not only providing our team with a plate reader for our experiments but also taking the time to instruct us on how to properly work with its software and how to apply it for our purpose. </p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Christian Dumpitak (iGRAD, HHU)</strong> for giving us professional presentation training and briefing us on how to improve our presentation.</p>
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<p><strong>Anna Behle</strong> for her valuable advice and help in the lab.</p>
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<p><strong>Nicolas Krink</strong> for his valuable input for the metabolic engineering team .</p>
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<p><strong>Barbara Schulten (Technical Assistant, Institute for Plant Cell and Biotechnology, HHU)</strong>, our knight in shining lab coat, for her irreplaceable daily support in the Duesseldorf lab.</p>
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<p><strong>Center for Advanced Imaging (CAi, HHU)</strong> for their help and advice on microscopy.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Sabine Metzger, Dr. Vera Wewer, Felix Büchel (MS Platform CEPLAS, UzK)</strong> for their great support with MS analysis.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Florian David (Biopetrolia)</strong> for the time he dedicated into listening to our project plans and the advice he gave us to improve the size and number control of our compartment.</p>
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<p><strong>John Dueber & Will DeLoache</strong> for giving us advice on how to use their yeast toolkit and allowing us to use their graphics for our card game. </p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Johann Ach (Reference Centre for Bioethics, Münster)</strong> for introducing us to the fundamentals of bioethics and instructing us on how to evaluate our work guided by ethical and socio-economic compass questions.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Harald Heider (Evolva Basel) & Dr. Mary Bossermann (Evolva USA)</strong> for advising us on the pitfalls on working with nootkatone as well as discussing limitations and opportunities of our project.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Susanne Bickel (vBIO)</strong> for her financial support as well as promoting iGEM and our project within the biological society in Germany. Furthermore, she invited us to different occasions to present our work.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Frauke Hangen (BioRiver NRW)</strong> for providing us with a stage to present our project during the BioRiver Start Up Slam.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Andreas Weber (Institute for Plant Biochemistry, HHU)</strong>, our secondary PI from Duesseldorf. For the second time he was a great mentor and contact person for many aspects of our project. He played a big role in helping us find our topic, supported us with valuable theoretical knowledge as well as organizational issues, especially regarding the planning and implementation of our SynBio conference.</p>
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<h2>Organization</h2>
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<p><strong>Dr. Martin Mauve (Dean, HHU)</strong> for providing our team with a common room to work in. Furthermore he approved a generous financial grant from the Heinrich Heine University.<p>
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<p><strong>Brigitte Haumann (CEPLAS, HHU)</strong> for being our team’s guardian angel. She helped us with the entire organization of the project outside of lab, including fundraising and financial administration, registration, booking flights (and amending the booking multiple times) and a lot more. Most of all we would like to thank her for her moral support and her undying iGEM spirit.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Stefanie Zeretzke (UzK)</strong> for administering the project in Cologne, including dealing with all bureaucratic problems, finances and general administration.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly (Institute for Plant Cell and Biotechnology, HHU)</strong> provided our team with an entire lab in Duesseldorf. Furthermore he more than generously supported us with all the equipment and consumables we needed for our work.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Stanislav Kopriva (Botanical Institute, UzK)</strong> supported the team with work space in his laboratory as well as chemicals and equipment.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Michael Feldbrügge (Institute for Microbiology, HHU)</strong> for his general advice and for constantly providing us with lab equipment whenever required.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Ilka Axmann (Institute for Synthetic Microbiology, HHU)</strong> for her help in building the new iGEM team and choosing this year’s research topic.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Lutz Schmitt (Institute for Biochemistry, HHU)</strong> for his generous financial support.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Thomas Klein (Institute for Genetics, HHU)</strong> for providing us with a dark room for our optogenetics experiments.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Thomas Langer (Institute for Genetics, UZK)</strong> for providing us with funds to set up the laboratory in Cologne.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Nicole Linka (Institute for Plant Biochemistry, HHU)</strong> for her invaluable advice on working with peroxisomes. She invested a lot of time and effort into sharing her knowledge and pushing our project forward.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Ralf Erdmann (Systems Biochemistry, Ruhr University Bochum)</strong> and his colleagues for taking the time to introduce us to working with peroxisomes and providing us with knockout strains we needed for our project.</p>
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<p><strong>Jun.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Ebenhöh (Institute for Quantitative Biology, HHU) & Prof. Dr. Holger Gohlke (Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry, HHU)</strong> supported both, our modeling and hardware teams with expertise and materials, especially 3D printing. Furthermore, he generously provided the funds for our hardware.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Vlada B. Urlacher & Dr. Marco Girhard (Institute for Biochemistry II, HHU)</strong> for their advice on working with Nootkatone.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Maike Wirth (Molecular Devices)</strong> for not only providing our team with a plate reader for our experiments but also taking the time to instruct us on how to properly work with its software and how to apply it for our purpose. </p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Christian Dumpitak (iGRAD, HHU)</strong> for giving us professional presentation training and briefing us on how to improve our presentation.</p>
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<p><strong>Anna Behle</strong> for her valuable advice and help in the lab.</p>
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<p><strong>Nicolas Krink</strong> for his valuable input for the metabolic engineering team .</p>
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<p><strong>Barbara Schulten (Technical Assistant, Institute for Plant Cell and Biotechnology, HHU)</strong>, our knight in shining lab coat, for her irreplaceable daily support in the Duesseldorf lab.</p>
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<p><strong>Center for Advanced Imaging (CAi, HHU)</strong> for their help and advice on microscopy.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Sabine Metzger, Dr. Vera Wewer, Felix Büchel (MS Platform CEPLAS, UzK)</strong> for their great support with MS analysis.</p>
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<h2>Integrated Human Practice</h2>
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<p><strong>Dr. Florian David (Biopetrolia)</strong> for the time he dedicated into listening to our project plans and the advice he gave us to improve the size and number control of our compartment.</p>
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<p><strong>John Dueber & Will DeLoache</strong> for giving us advice on how to use their yeast toolkit and allowing us to use their graphics for our card game. </p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Johann Ach (Reference Centre for Bioethics, Münster)</strong> for introducing us to the fundamentals of bioethics and instructing us on how to evaluate our work guided by ethical and socio-economic compass questions.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Harald Heider (Evolva Basel) & Dr. Mary Bossermann (Evolva USA)</strong> for advising us on the pitfalls on working with nootkatone as well as discussing limitations and opportunities of our project.</p>
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<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Susanne Bickel (vBIO)</strong> for her financial support as well as promoting iGEM and our project within the biological society in Germany. Furthermore, she invited us to different occasions to present our work.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Frauke Hangen (BioRiver NRW)</strong> for providing us with a stage to present our project during the BioRiver Start Up Slam.</p>
This year’s iGEM competition has been an exhilarating, instructive and absolutely nerve-wracking experience. A team of 24 students from two different cities got together to create a new milestone in synthetic biology. At the end of this year we are happy and more than proud to look back at everything we have achieved as a team. However, none of this would have been even imaginable without the amazing support of all the people who accompanied us throughout this year. Therefore, we are dedicating this part of our wiki to all the special people who helped us realize our project, no matter if it was with their technical support and knowledge, infrastructure, or organization.
Team work
Name
Responsible
Involved
Helping
Aikaterini Karapantsiou
PR Representative
Organisation
Finances / Fundraising / Sponsoring
Integrated Human Practice
SynBio Conference
Lab Safety / Safety Forms
Judging Form
MakeUp artist
Outreach - school project
Collaboration - translations
Lab: Size and number control
Social Media
Anna Sappler
PEX7 Import and Mutagenesis
Outreach - school project
Media
Boston presentation
Bastiaan Tjeng
Sensors
Imaging and microscopy
Daniela Wall
Metabolic Engineering: Nootkatone
Public engagement
Eric Behle
Optogenetics
Hardware
Final project presentation
Proofreading
Integrated Human Practice
Outreach
Fiona Edenhofer
Metabolic Engineering: violacein
Social Media
Outreach: game design
Outreach: school project
Hendrik Cooper
Membrane Integration Project
Final project presentation
Social Media
Photos
SynBio Conference
Integrated Human Practice
Graphics
Jan Maika
Laboratory Duesseldorf Representative
Secretion
Metabolic Engineering
Imaging & Microscopy
PTS1 Mutagenesis
Integrated Human Practice
PTS2 Mutagenesis
Jason Müller
Pex5 Modeling
Sponsoring
Microscopy Cologne
PTS1 Mutagenesis
Kristin Gehling
Metabolic Engineering: violacein
Social Media
Outreach: School Project
Outreach: Card Game
Lisa Wolpers
PTS2 Mutagenesis
Integrated Human Practice
Organisation
Finances / Fundraising / Sponsoring
SynBio Conference
Collaboration
Biobricks
Outreach: school project
Manuel Lentzen
Laboratory Cologne Representative
PEX5 Modeling/Mutagenesis
PTS1 Mutagenesis
Marvin van Aalst
Metabolic Model and Strain Design
Wiki Layout and Coding
Graphics
Primer Design Software
Membrane Integration
Pauline Ott
Lab: Size and number control
Outreach: school project
SynBio Conference
Integrated human practice
Philipp Müller
Metabolic Engineering: Nootkatone
Outreach: Card Game
Outreach: School Project
Sponsoring / Fundraising
Public Engagement
Philipp Rink
Secretion
Introduction General Yeast Work
Fluorescent Peroxisomal (Membrane-) markers
Metabolic engineering
Virtual Cloning Import
Rene Inckemann
Yeast genome engineering
Cas9 & Integration
Imaging & Microscopy
Project designs; initial paper research
General Organisation
Introduction General Labwork
Collaboration Organisation
Metabolic engineering
Integrated Human Practice
Optogenetics
PEX5 directed mutagenesis
PTS1 & PTS2 random mutagenesis
SynBio Conference
Protein work and Western Blot
Tobias Brügner
Sensors
Imaging & microscopy
Alina Kuklinski
Finances / Fundraising / Sponsoring
Organisation
Social Media
Meet-up Coordination
Marketing
Wedding planner
Instructor
Human Practice
Membrane Integration Project
Carolin Krämer
Organisation
Public Engagement
Postcard Campaign
Organisation
Instructor
Human Practice
Collaboration
Optogenetics
Kai Hußnätter
Secretion
PEX7 Import and Mutagenesis
Organisation
Beer
Advisor
Protein work and Western Blot
Molecular biological methods theory and protocols
Primer Design and virtual cloning
Metabolic Engineering
Presentation training
Marvin Hubert
Metabolic engineering: Nootkatone
Synthesis
Imaging & microscopy
Plate reader analysis
Interlab study
Collaboration cloning for team Aachen
Instructor
Western Blot analysis
Integrated human practice - contact to Ralf Erdmann
Nicolas Schmelling
Internetdoy
Lightdoy
Advisor
Tim Blomeier
Sensors
Optogenetics
Import PEX5
Microscopy boy
Advisor
Presentation training
Proofreading
Microscopy techniques
Help and Support
Prof Dr. Matias Zurbriggen (Institute for Synthetic Biology, HHU), our primary PI, who supported our team in getting started this year and helped us find a suitable and realizable topic. Furthermore, he provided us with theoretical knowledge and valuable input regarding our project during weekly meetings with our three team representatives. He also provided us with chemicals and consumables, whenever something was missing in our lab.
Prof. Dr. Gunther Döhlemann (Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, UzK), one of our secondary PIs, who provided our team in Cologne with a lab to work in as well as equipment and consumables. Furthermore, we would like to thank all members of the institute for their assistance with experiments.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Weber (Institute for Plant Biochemistry, HHU), our secondary PI from Duesseldorf. For the second time he was a great mentor and contact person for many aspects of our project. He played a big role in helping us find our topic, supported us with valuable theoretical knowledge as well as organizational issues, especially regarding the planning and implementation of our SynBio conference.
Dr. Martin Mauve (Dean, HHU) for providing our team with a common room to work in. Furthermore he approved a generous financial grant from the Heinrich Heine University.
Brigitte Haumann (CEPLAS, HHU) for being our team’s guardian angel. She helped us with the entire organization of the project outside of lab, including fundraising and financial administration, registration, booking flights (and amending the booking multiple times) and a lot more. Most of all we would like to thank her for her moral support and her undying iGEM spirit.
Dr. Stefanie Zeretzke (UzK) for administering the project in Cologne, including dealing with all bureaucratic problems, finances and general administration.
Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly (Institute for Plant Cell and Biotechnology, HHU) provided our team with an entire lab in Duesseldorf. Furthermore he more than generously supported us with all the equipment and consumables we needed for our work.
Prof. Dr. Stanislav Kopriva (Botanical Institute, UzK) supported the team with work space in his laboratory as well as chemicals and equipment.
Prof. Dr. Michael Feldbrügge (Institute for Microbiology, HHU) for his general advice and for constantly providing us with lab equipment whenever required.
Prof. Dr. Ilka Axmann (Institute for Synthetic Microbiology, HHU) for her help in building the new iGEM team and choosing this year’s research topic.
Prof. Dr. Lutz Schmitt (Institute for Biochemistry, HHU) for his generous financial support.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Klein (Institute for Genetics, HHU) for providing us with a dark room for our optogenetics experiments.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Langer (Institute for Genetics, UZK) for providing us with funds to set up the laboratory in Cologne.
Dr. Nicole Linka (Institute for Plant Biochemistry, HHU) for her invaluable advice on working with peroxisomes. She invested a lot of time and effort into sharing her knowledge and pushing our project forward.
Prof. Dr. Ralf Erdmann (Systems Biochemistry, Ruhr University Bochum) and his colleagues for taking the time to introduce us to working with peroxisomes and providing us with knockout strains we needed for our project.
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Ebenhöh (Institute for Quantitative Biology, HHU) & Prof. Dr. Holger Gohlke (Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry, HHU) supported both, our modeling and hardware teams with expertise and materials, especially 3D printing. Furthermore, he generously provided the funds for our hardware.
Prof. Dr. Vlada B. Urlacher & Dr. Marco Girhard (Institute for Biochemistry II, HHU) for their advice on working with Nootkatone.
Dr. Maike Wirth (Molecular Devices) for not only providing our team with a plate reader for our experiments but also taking the time to instruct us on how to properly work with its software and how to apply it for our purpose.
Dr. Christian Dumpitak (iGRAD, HHU) for giving us professional presentation training and briefing us on how to improve our presentation.
Anna Behle for her valuable advice and help in the lab.
Nicolas Krink for his valuable input for the metabolic engineering team .
Barbara Schulten (Technical Assistant, Institute for Plant Cell and Biotechnology, HHU), our knight in shining lab coat, for her irreplaceable daily support in the Duesseldorf lab.
Center for Advanced Imaging (CAi, HHU) for their help and advice on microscopy.
Dr. Sabine Metzger, Dr. Vera Wewer, Felix Büchel (MS Platform CEPLAS, UzK) for their great support with MS analysis.
Dr. Florian David (Biopetrolia) for the time he dedicated into listening to our project plans and the advice he gave us to improve the size and number control of our compartment.
John Dueber & Will DeLoache for giving us advice on how to use their yeast toolkit and allowing us to use their graphics for our card game.
Dr. Johann Ach (Reference Centre for Bioethics, Münster) for introducing us to the fundamentals of bioethics and instructing us on how to evaluate our work guided by ethical and socio-economic compass questions.
Dr. Harald Heider (Evolva Basel) & Dr. Mary Bossermann (Evolva USA) for advising us on the pitfalls on working with nootkatone as well as discussing limitations and opportunities of our project.
Prof. Dr. Susanne Bickel (vBIO) for her financial support as well as promoting iGEM and our project within the biological society in Germany. Furthermore, she invited us to different occasions to present our work.
Dr. Frauke Hangen (BioRiver NRW) for providing us with a stage to present our project during the BioRiver Start Up Slam.
