Team:TU Darmstadt/Team

Contents 1 Welcome to our team page 2 Teams 2.1 Degradation 2.2 Transport 2.3 Metabolism 2.4 Material Science 2.5 Simulation 2.6 Wiki 2.7 Human Resources & Coordination 2.8 Advisors

Welcome to our team page

Our final achievement was made possible by the hard work and anticipation of the people of our team.

Teams

Degradation

Marie Burghard Dipl. Biology

Master of SOE PCR and SDS-bubbles
Marie is one of the few remaining diploma of the TU Darmstadt and the only one of their kind that made it to our iGEM team.
If you need someone to keep a cool head and a bunch of testosterone driven menfolk in control there is no way around her.
She is skilled in all kind of genetic methods and even knows how to play the piano.

Jascha Dimer M.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

Master of SOE PCR
Although it required some force to make Jascha join our iGEM team he never regretted joining us. Nor did we.
Together with Marie he dealt with the isolation of FsC and Est13 via SOE PCR and kept up the working spirit.
To start with iGEM was his chance to realize a project that involves going beyond the usual university project limits. We went far...

Adrian Eilingsfeld M.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

Trainee in BioBrick production and god of wikimedia
Adrians objective was the construction of BioBricks based on the fusion proteins sub units.
When time was running short he took up the challenge and started the wiki.
He's a constant source of wicked ideas: He implemented the laser thermometer as labware, likes rockets and owns a 3D printer.

Philipp Rottmann M.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

Master of BioBrick production and god of overexpression of FsC/Est13
Philipp represented our iGEM team on severall occasions, cared for our public relations, funding and to put us into good humor.
Yet he insited to spend time in the laboratory. Without him lab the lab wouldn't be the same.
He is one of the alltime enthusiastic kind who always gives a helping hand and makes teamwork a pleasant experience.

Renè Sahm B.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

God of activity assays
Renè joined the iGEM teams as soon as he heard about it.
He is always in search of a challenge and gives his best while having a lot of fun.

Arne Wehling B.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

Team leader and god of SOE PCR
Arne is a great team leader. He is confident and doesn't hesitate to kick ass if required but doesn't mind to pay attention to trivial matters.
Although he classifies himself as a tough guy and trains boxing on a regular basis, the only one who ended up with a black eye (twice) was himself, after some close quarter combats (sparring). He is extremely dedicated trying to bring science to the people.

Transport

from left to right: Sebastian, Valentina, Malte/Max, Andreas

Malte Blumenroth B.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

Wet lab
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Max Heumüller B.Sc. Biology

Wet lab and translation
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Valentina Herbring M.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

Wet lab and documentation
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Andreas Schmidt B.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

Team leader and master of improvisation
Andreas

Sebastian Palluk B.Sc. Biology

Wet lab
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Metabolism

Sascha Hein B.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

Team leader and god of GLP
Sascha is a certified biological technical assistant and decided to lead the metabolism team.
His internalized skills and knowledge on a variety of methods make him essential for succesfull labwork.
He even went so far to be ready to sleep over at the lab.

Sven Rumpf B.Sc. Chemistry

Master of gel leak-proof gel chambers
Sven took iGEM as a chance to expand his skills on biotechnology.
Nevertheless he taught us to assemble an SDS-PAGE that
could withstand thousands of liters of resolving and stacking gel.

Daniel Sachs B.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

Master of colony picking
Daniel is the perfect man for colony PCR.
Unfortunately his transformation and ligation skills are afflicted
by his tendency to lose tubes with plasmid DNA in his ice box.

Material Science

Velten Horn B.Sc. Chemistry

Master of AFM and PET synthesis
Velten was the teams good soul keeping everybody calm in stressing situations.
Entertaining everone in the long hours of using the AFM was one of his easiest tasks.
If he wasn´t synthecising PET or taking AFM images he could be found playing smartphone games addictedly, emptying everyones batterie.

Jonas von Irmer B.Sc. Chemistry

Team leader, god of AFM and synthesis
Jonas evolved from a mere spectator to team leader. Showing an enormous desire to make a contribution.
As a chemist he provided crucial skills and synthesised PET analoga.
His endurance using the AFM lead to beautiful pictures but also a big pile of broken cantilevers.

Henner Zirpel M.Sc. Chemistry

Master of the vanishing product
Henner lead the team until he began his studies abroad.
He took care of PET synthesis being the first one ever to evaporate PET at a temperature of 170 °C
Nevertheless he was an excellent companion and pleasant to work with.

Simulation

Stephan Gries B.Sc. Computer Science

Sven Jager M.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

God of simulation
Sven turned out to be our personal genius on simulation and modeling. When he presented his first data we were stunned and pretty
much didn't know what to say. As a consequence he reduced his data to a threshold that common people understand (images).
Even though he usually evites lab work he ended up performing the GC-MS measurements with great success.

Henrik Cordes M.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

Under the watchful eyes of Sven Henrik performed homology modelings and MD simulations
for the iGEM Frankfurt team as well as for our team.
Some computers couldn't take it (crashed) but it was worth it ....

Wiki

Patrick Boba PhD Biology (Bioinformatics)

Wiki
Patrick was pretty much dragged into this mess.
He helped setting up and proofread the modeling section
and expanded his fields of operations when the time ran short.

Adrian Eilingsfeld M.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

God of Wiki
Adrian pretty much pulled the short straw and ended up with the wiki and all its wonderful side effects:
Sleep deprivation, mood swings, spontaneous burst of laughter and the infinite wisdom on ditching the wiki task next time it crosses his path.
Yet I must admit, I enjoyed the time we had.

Human Resources & Coordination

Henrik Cordes M.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

Project management and activity assignment
Henrik was one of the first to come up with the idea to enter the iGEM competition.
He soon started coordinating and setting up the team.
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Philipp Rottmann M.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering

Master of public relations
Philipp represented our iGEM team on severall occasions, cared for our public relations and funding.
He performed sparkling during our human practices and attracted the crowds like nobody else.
He is one of the alltime enthusiastic kind who always gives a helping hand and makes teamwork a pleasant experience.

Advisors

Patrick Boba (PhD, Biology/Bioinformatics)

Niklas Weber (PhD, Biochemistry)

Björn Steinmann (PhD, Biochemistry)

Christian Dietz (AFM measurements)

Marek Janko (AFM measurements)

Dr. Tobias Meckel (Physics of biomembranes)

PET.er (The result of our hard work and commitment)

Thanks for collaborating with us!

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MIA: Thea Lotz

Linus Naumann

Daniela Nietz

Svenja Peterhansel

Jan Spengler

Gries Stefan

Patrick Stier

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If there are any concerns on who did what feel free to take a look at the attributions.