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The LMU-Munich team is exuberantly happy about the great success at the World Championship Jamboree in Boston. Our project Beadzillus finished 4th and won the prize for the "Best Wiki" (with Slovenia) and "Best New Application Project".

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Who we are

Our iGEM team is a group of seven students and three advisors.

The majority of us are studying biology, two of us are Bachelor and five are Master students... and Julia, is studying biochemistry in her Masters program. Together with Jara she is now participating for the third time in the iGEM competition. They have the know-how and calmness of two experienced iGEM members. Especially Jara is known as our walking library. If she is not helping out, she is working on the vectors of the BacillusBioBrickBox. The rest of us are enjoying all of the different aspects and work of an iGEM project for the first time; and the stress in the lab. Only Simon can often escape from it, as he is dealing with topics like collaborations, website, human practise, sponsors, etc. But as we are a group of only ten people there is no graph, no abstract, not even one presentation slide which isn't discussed enthusiastically, and no work going undivided. The design and presentation of the story for our Amsterdam talk (European Jamboree) is being developed and controlled by Franzi, Jenny and Tamara. In the lab they are as well working together on the Sporobeads. At this, Franzi and Tamara are fusing different proteins to the spore crust, while Jenny and Julia are inhibiting the germination (GerminationSTOP). Korinna is monitoring the lab duties and safety and is also known as the data generator. The sheer amount of data derived from her work and evaluation of all our promoters is the heart of our well evaluated BacillusBioBrickBox, which was assisted to some extend by Jara.

All of us are working closely together with our three advisors, Prof. Thorsten Mascher, Dr. Tina Wecke and Dr. Georg Fritz. Prof. Thorsten Mascher is not only offering us a place in his lab, but also a lot of support and input on all parts of the project. Tina is the one to go to for trouble shooting and strategy planning and Georg is advising us how to best evaluate parts and how to model.

We have a lot of fun working together on Beadzillus!

Where we are from

We are from Munich, the world's largest village ;-)

Munich is in Bavaria, known for its beer (in Munich especially the Oktoberfest) and its dialect. Though many Munich natives don't have a dialect, you will always find many Münchners drinking beer in one of the many beergardens on a sunny day.

Munich has two universities, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU, our team) and the Technical University (TUM). Even though the interests don't overlap extensively (the LMU is more interested in basic research while the TUM more in application), there is still some sort of lighthearted competition between these two about which of these is the "real" university of Munich. Despite this, our two teams got along just fine and collaborated on the Synbio day.

Munich itself, even though it has a lot of different places to offer, has many "central" places. If you want to go shopping: Kaufinger Straße, if you want to go to a park and lay in the sun: Englischer Garten, if you want to visit a natural history museum: Deutsches Museum, if you want to visit an art museum: Pinakotheken, if you want to study: LMU (just kidding). But you get the point. That is probably also the reason why we see our city as one of the largest villages in the world, because we always seem to meet people we know, because we all go the same places. And maybe someday we will meet you here ...

Our Team

Korinna	Franzi	Tamara	Simon
Julia	Jenny	Jara	Prof. Dr. Mascher

Advisors:

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Mascher
Dr. Tina Wecke
Dr. Georg Fritz

Undergrads:

Korinna, Bachelor Biology student
Franzi, Bachelor Biology student
Tamara, Master Biology student
Simon, Master Biology student
Julia, Master Biochemistry student
Jenny, Master Biology student
Jara, Master Biology student

What we did

check out our achievements page

Contact us

igem@bio.lmu.de

http://www.facebook.com/igem.lmu

iGEM LMU

AG Mascher

Großhadernerstr. 2-4

82152 Planegg

+49 (0) 89 2180-74624

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 '''Our iGEM team is a group of seven students and three advisors.'''
-<p align="justify">The majority of us is studying biology, two of us are bachelor and five are master students... and ''Julia'', she is studying biochemistry in her masters program. Together with ''Jara'' she is now participating for the third time in the iGEM competition. They have the know-how and calmness of two experienced iGEM members. Especially ''Jara'' is known as our walking library. If she is not helping out, she is working on the vectors of the [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks '''''Bacillus''B'''io'''B'''rick'''B'''ox]. The rest of us are enjoying all the different aspects and work of an iGEM project for the first time; and the stress in the lab. Only ''Simon'' can ''often'' escape from it, as he is dealing with topics like collaborations, website, human practise, sponsors and and and. But as we are a group of only nine people there is no graph, no abstract, not even one presentation slide not being discussed enthusiastically and no work not being divided. The design and presentation of the story is being developed and controlled by ''Franzi'', ''Jenny'' and ''Tamara''. In the lab they are as well working together on the [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Spore_Coat_Proteins '''Sporo'''beads]. At this, ''Franzi'' and ''Tamara'' are fusing different proteins to the spore crust, while ''Jenny'' and ''Julia'' are inhibiting the germination ([https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Germination_Stop '''Germination'''STOP]). ''Korinna'' is monitoring the lab duties and safety and is also known as the data generator. The sheer amount of data derived from her work and evaluation of all our promoters is the heart of our well evaluated [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks '''''Bacillus''B'''io'''B'''rick'''B'''ox], which was assisted to some extend by ''Jara''.</p>
+<p align="justify">The majority of us are studying biology, two of us are Bachelor and five are Master students... and ''Julia'', is studying biochemistry in her Masters program. Together with ''Jara'' she is now participating for the third time in the iGEM competition. They have the know-how and calmness of two experienced iGEM members. Especially ''Jara'' is known as our walking library. If she is not helping out, she is working on the vectors of the [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks '''''Bacillus''B'''io'''B'''rick'''B'''ox]. The rest of us are enjoying all of the different aspects and work of an iGEM project for the first time; and the stress in the lab. Only ''Simon'' can ''often'' escape from it, as he is dealing with topics like collaborations, website, human practise, sponsors, etc. But as we are a group of only ten people there is no graph, no abstract, not even one presentation slide which isn't discussed enthusiastically, and no work going undivided. The design and presentation of the story for our Amsterdam talk ([https://2012.igem.org/Regions/Europe/Jamboree European Jamboree]) is being developed and controlled by ''Franzi'', ''Jenny'' and ''Tamara''. In the lab they are as well working together on the [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Spore_Coat_Proteins '''Sporo'''beads]. At this, ''Franzi'' and ''Tamara'' are fusing different proteins to the spore crust, while ''Jenny'' and ''Julia'' are inhibiting the germination ([https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Germination_Stop '''Germination'''STOP]). ''Korinna'' is monitoring the lab duties and safety and is also known as the data generator. The sheer amount of data derived from her work and evaluation of all our promoters is the heart of our well evaluated [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus_BioBricks '''''Bacillus''B'''io'''B'''rick'''B'''ox], which was assisted to some extend by ''Jara''.</p>
-<p align="justify">All of us are working closely together with our three advisors, ''Prof. Thorsten Mascher'', ''Dr. Tina Wecke'' and ''Dr. Georg Fritz''. ''Prof. Thorsten Mascher'' is not only offering us a place in his lab, but a lot of support and input on all parts of the project too. ''Tina'' is the one to go to for trouble shooting and strategy planning and ''Georg'' is the one advising us how to best evaluate parts and how to model.</p>
+<p align="justify">All of us are working closely together with our three advisors, ''Prof. Thorsten Mascher'', ''Dr. Tina Wecke'' and ''Dr. Georg Fritz''. ''Prof. Thorsten Mascher'' is not only offering us a place in his lab, but also a lot of support and input on all parts of the project. ''Tina'' is the one to go to for trouble shooting and strategy planning and ''Georg'' is advising us how to best evaluate parts and how to model.</p>
 <p align="justify">''We have a lot of fun working together on '''Bead'''zillus!''
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 We are from Munich, the world's largest village ;-)
-Munich is in Bavaria, known for it's beer (in Munich especially the Oktoberfest) and it's dialect. Though many Munich natives don't have a dialect, you will always find many Munichs drinking beer in one of the many beergardens on a sunny day.
+Munich is in Bavaria, known for its beer (in Munich especially the Oktoberfest) and its dialect. Though many Munich natives don't have a dialect, you will always find many Münchners drinking beer in one of the many beergardens on a sunny day.
-Munich has two universities, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU, our team) and the Technical University (TUM). Even though the interests don't overlapp extensively, the LMU is more interested in basic research the TUM more in application, there is still some sort of non-serious competition between these two about which of these is the "real" university of Munich. Despite of this our two teams got along just fine and collaborated on the [[Team:LMU-Munich/Human_Practice/SynBio_Day|Synbio day]].
+Munich has two universities, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU, our team) and the Technical University ([https://2012.igem.org/Team:TU_Munich TUM]). Even though the interests don't overlap extensively (the LMU is more interested in basic research while the TUM more in application), there is still some sort of lighthearted competition between these two about which of these is the "real" university of Munich. Despite this, our two teams got along just fine and collaborated on the [[Team:LMU-Munich/Human_Practice/SynBio_Day|Synbio day]].
 Munich itself, even though it has a lot of different places to offer, has many "central" places. If you want to go shopping: Kaufinger Straße, if you want to go to a park and lay in the sun: Englischer Garten, if you want to visit a natural history museum: Deutsches Museum, if you want to visit an art museum: Pinakotheken, if you want to study: LMU (just kidding). But you get the point. That is probably also the reason why we see our city as one of the largest villages in the world, because we always seem to meet people we know, because we all go the same places. And maybe someday we will meet you here ...