Team:Stuttgart/Team

Meet Team Stuttgart 2017

Ina




Ina is the nice lady who proves that coding isn't just a guys thing! She keeps the quota for women in our modeling-team up and besides her lovely character she bakes and provides the team with splendid muffins!

  • name and age: Ina Katrin Eisenkolb, 24
  • what are you studying (Master): Technical Biology
  • your iGEM tasks: Modelling and Simulation, Webside, Wiki
  • what do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? I really like about iGEM, that it provides the frame structures to find and develop own scientific ideas, that not necessarily lead to a finished product
  • what did iGEM teach you for life? How to successfully deal with obstacles in your way when you are the first going this way
  • other Interests: Sailing, reading, cooking/ baking, sauna, travelling





    • Anna-Lena responsible for sponsoring and part of our wetlab team! As she knows the uni since years she always helps out when people get lost in the building and knows where to find what in the institute!

  • name and age: Anna-Lena Mayer, 24
  • what are you studying (Master): Technical Biology
  • your iGEM tasks: sponsoring, make e.coli smell of lemon
  • what do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Teamwork, meet teams from all over the world
  • what did iGEM teach you for life? Never give up, planning a project from the beginning can be a lot of fun
  • other Interests: sports (tennis), cooking

    • Anna-Lena


    Georg




    Georg belongs to the Keratinase-Team in the wetlab and is eagerly on the mission to rescue plugged pipes from nasty, clogging hairballs! Besides he's in the sponsoring team where he helps to pimp our lab with new, fancy equipment!

  • name and age: Georg Singer, 22
  • what are you studying (Master): Technical Biology
  • your iGEM tasks: sponsoring, make e.coli a keratin-destroyer
  • what do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Teamwork, meet teams from all over the world, get the chance to do what i want
  • what did iGEM teach you for life? How to get a No into a yes
  • other Interests: sports, football, piano, mountains





    • Amatus belongs to our Modelling-Crew! Besides he's the guy who's in charge of keeping our webside updated. No matter how stressed we sometimes are - Amatus provides for peace and brings calmness into the team! Thank you Amatus!

  • name and age: Amatus, 25
  • what are you studying (Master): Technical Biology
  • your iGEM tasks: modelling
  • what do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? I like it to be able to follow up a Project from its beginning to the end. I think synthetic biology is able to solve a lot of today’s problems
  • what did iGEM teach you for life? Not that much new
  • other Interests: computers in general, playing instruments (violin, piano, guitar), watching TV series

    • Amatus


    Heidi




    Heidi is the buisy lady that is in charge with everything of our project! She's part of the wetlab team helping out with every project part and takes care of our wiki also being part of the dry lab! At the end she will take care to let E.coli express all of our enzymes! If you struggle with something or run out of time Heidi is always the first one that offers her help! Thank you Heidi! :-)

  • name and age: Heidi Muehl, 27
  • what are you studying (Master): Technical Biology
  • your iGEM tasks: lab support, interlab study, extracellular expression of E. coli
  • what do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? To gain insight of a project development right from the start, international exchange of interests and knowledge with other iGEM-teams, the giant jamboree in Boston :-)
  • what did iGEM teach you for life? Everything is possible with the right team, don’t give up
  • other Interests: family & friends, music & dancing, pizza





    • Elke belongs to to wetlab team and takes care of our wiki.

  • what are you studying: Technical Biology (Master)
  • your iGEM tasks: My focus in this project is the production of a charming rose-scent with the help of E.coli.
  • what do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? iGEM offers you the opportunity to develop and learn to work in a team towards one goal. My motivation at the project is the independent working in the laboratory on a self-chosen topic and the gathering of new experiences that go beyond the university everyday life
  • what did iGEM teach you for life? Everything that belongs to an independent project, such as project finding, sponsorship, project organization, laboratory work,...AND HTML :-)
  • other Interests: diving, reading, sports

    • Elke


    Nici




    Nici is the buisy and crazy lady that organizes everything in our team: Sponsoring, Human Practises, Interviews,... and of course fun activities for our team! :-)

  • name and age: Nicole Buss, 25
  • what are you studying (Master): Technical Biology (Master)
  • your iGEM tasks: wetlab (keratinases), sponsoring, human practices/marketing
  • what do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? iGEM enables students as a team the opportunity to establish their own scientific project from scratch and to create something completely new in an interdisziplinary and international environment. It’s a great chance to look behind the scenes what synthetic biology can offer and what will be possible one day.
  • what did iGEM teach you for life? Endurance, humor is all you need, youtube videos are a scientists best friend, everything’s feasible if you do it with the right people, nothing can harm E.coli
  • other Interests: Sports, traveling, going on adventures, spreading love and joy




    • Cati is part of the sponsoring and wetlab team.

  • what are you studying: Technical Biology (Master)
  • your iGEM tasks: mostly sponsoring, lab works (esterases and signal peptides) and human practices but there is no strict assignment of tasks
  • what do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? I like the fact that iGEM is a competition but nevertheless people work together instead of against each other. It’s more important to achieve scientific and personal progress than winning a prize.
  • what did iGEM teach you for life? Just if you ask people for help, you can receive help. A few months ago I did not thought to speak to so many people in such a short time.
  • other Interests: goas and techno festivals, flea markets for record, fitness and traveling

    • Cati


    Benjamin




  • name and age: Benjamin, 25
  • what are you studying: Engineering Cybernetics (applied to vehicles & autonomous systems), Graduate
  • your iGEM tasks: Modeling. Yes, Both.
  • what do you like about iGEM/synthetic biology? Genesis 3:5
  • what did iGEM teach you for life? If you wanna meet woman, major in biology
  • other Interests: E-Guitar & Composing; Magic Realism; Science-Fiction; Cold Countries, Seasons and Beers; Watching The Bachelorette while talking about quantum field theory