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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

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.

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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+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.
 ==Where we are from==