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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 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 participates now 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 works on the vectors of the Bacillus BioBrickBox. The rest of us enjoyes for the first time all the different aspects and work of an iGEM project; and the stress in the lab. Only Simon gets to escape often 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 beeing discussed enthusiastically and the work not beeing divided. The design and story of everything is developed and controlled by Franzi, Jenny and Tamara. In the lab they work as well together on the Sporobeads. Thereby, Franzi and Tamara are fusing different proteins to the spore crust, while Jenny and Julia are inhibiting the germination. Monitoring the lab duties and safety is Korinna, also known as the data generator. This amount of data derived from her work and evaluation of all our promoters.

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.

Where we are from

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 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 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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 ==Who we are==
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-We are a group of seven students, two bachelor students and five master students, and three advisors, Prof. Thorsten Mascher, Dr. Tina Wecke and Dr. Georg Fritz. Two of us are taking part for the third time, but for the majority of the team it is the first time. The composition of the team is great, as we have a bit of know-how about the structure of the competition and the way BioBricks work, but the enthusiasm of the first time also on board. A great opportunity was given to us, as we are able to work in the lab of Prof. Thorsten Mascher as a whole team. This makes it possible to work through having a dedicated space to organize for the whole period of working time. He also is the one supporting us with fine tuning of our project and gives us input on the theoretical hows. Tina is the one to go to if something in the lab is frustrating to trouble shoot and Georg is the one advising us how to best evaluate parts and how to model.
+'''Our iGEM team is a group of seven students and three advisors.'''
+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 participates now 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 works on the vectors of the '''''Bacillus''''' '''B'''io'''B'''rick'''B'''ox. The rest of us enjoyes for the first time all the different aspects and work of an iGEM project; and the stress in the lab. Only ''Simon'' gets to escape ''often'' 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 beeing discussed enthusiastically and the work not beeing divided. The design and story of everything is developed and controlled by ''Franzi'', ''Jenny'' and ''Tamara''. In the lab they work as well together on the '''Sporo'''beads. Thereby, ''Franzi'' and ''Tamara'' are fusing different proteins to the spore crust, while ''Jenny'' and ''Julia'' are inhibiting the germination. Monitoring the lab duties and safety is ''Korinna'', also known as the data generator. This amount of data derived from her work and evaluation of all our promoters.
+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.
+[[File:LMU-Munich_team2.png|500px|center]]
 ==Where we are from==