CATE would have never been possible without the tremendous support and guidance by our advisors, supervisors and experts. A big thank you to everyone who has contributed to the completion and success of CATE!

Advisors

In our weekly meetings the advisors were reviewing our progress and helping to take important decisions.

Daniel Gerngross, iGEM 2014 team member, Ph.D. student and Christoph Stelzer, Ph.D.

Daniel and Christoph were always around in the nearby Panke and Benenonson Labs for urgent questions and dropped by the iGEM lab a couple of times a week to see if everything is alright. They assisted us in designing experiments and interpret the results. They were involved in setting up equipment and showed us how to use it correctly or helped in optimizing the way we wanted to investigate our constructs. Daniel was part of the 2014 iGEM team of ETH Zürich and had a lot of experience with the experimental techniques such as the ligase cycling reaction as well as plate reader measurements. Chrostoph provided us mammalian cell lines and a lot of advice in experiment design.

Claude Lormeau, iGEM 2014 team member

Claude was the specialist in computational biology and helped to define the strategy for our models. She was always around to discuss results and optimize the procedure. With her extensive experience from taking part in iGEM team 2015 at ETH Zürich she contributed to the successful implementation of the models and connecting the outcomes to the experimental work.

Supervisors

Prof. Dr. Sven Panke, bioprocess engineering, experiments design, project goals and approaches
Prof. Dr. Yaakov Benenson, molecular computing, workflow design, project goals and approaches
Prof. Dr. Joerg Stelling, systems biology, modelisation, project goals and approaches

Besides providing a dedicated iGEM Laboratory in the facility of the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering in Basel, the professors helped us in general decisions by asking critical questions. During our weekly meetings, they kept the overview of our project and supported us in chosing a direction for the project. With their knowledge, they were able to draw our attention to issues that might appear in future, so that we could prevent problems or adapt early to the situations.

Laboratories

Benenson Lab, iGEM lab space, general assistance in equipment handling, tecan plate readers, nanodrop device, thermocyclers
Panke Lab, general assistance in equipment handling, thermocyclers

Acknowledgements

Andreas Zingg, Fundraising iGEM ETH Zürich 2016, for arranging sponsorship of main sponsors early in 2017 before the 2017 team was formed.
Prof. Dr. Markus Rudin, Institute of Biomedical Imaging ETH Zürich, for the informative meeting and advice in magnetic resonance imaging and arranging access to the MRI
Dr. Aileen Schröter, for arranging the MRI experiments and the meeting with Prof. Rudin.
Prof. Simon J. Ittig, CEO of T3 Pharmaceuticals, for giving insight into a bacterial cancer therapy startup company and the talk at BSSE meets industry.

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Work done by team

Wet lab