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We are an independent iGEM team. This means that we did not have a lab advisor and did all by ourselves. Moreover, we had no host lab but worked in course labs of the Department of Biology and BIOSS, which were empty during the summer break.

In detail, we did all of the following tasks on our own: We have:

- founded a registered society in order to be allowed to raise donations

- raised money

- purchased lab equipment/ consumables

- poured agar plates, mix media, autoclave pipet tips, waste etc.

- found our project idea - the GATE assembly method is truly our own invention. No professor told us what project to choose, what methods to use etc.

- planned the lab work

- done the actual lab work - everything was done by team members of the 2012 iGEM Team - over this summer, we were the only ones to enter "our" lab.

- organized public outreach events, write our philosophical essay.

- had contact with the media

- planned our trip(s) to the jamboree(s) (book flights, busses, hostels etc.)

- worked on our wiki and project movie

We thank the following people/ institutions for their support:

- the Media Center of Freiburg University for printing our poster and lending a camera for the project movie

- the Pahl Lab for giving us advice for the Chip Assay

- all our sponsors for their generous financial support