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We are an independent iGEM team. This means that we did not have a lab advisor and did everything by ourselves. Moreover, we had no host lab but worked in course labs of the [http://www.bio.uni-freiburg.de/ Department of Biology] and [http://www.bioss.uni-freiburg.de 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, mixed media, autoclaved pipet tips 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. No professor, no advisor etc.

- organised public outreach events, write our philosophical essay.

- had contact with the media

- planned our trips to the jamborees (booked flights, busses, hostels etc.)

- worked on our wiki and project movie

We thank the following people/ institutions for their support:

- all the people working at BIOSS that helped us with our problems answered patiently our questions.

- especially we want to thank the BIOSS Toolbox staff for all their kind help and support

- the Lab of professor Weber for helping us with the SEAP essay, the EPO essay and the cell culture

- we thank Konrad Müller (Weber Lab) for the SEAP test vector (pKM001).

- we thank Dr. Mussolino and Professor Cathomen for their TALEN test plasmids and advice.

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

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

- [http://www.addgene.org/ Addgene] for their superb sequence analyzing and illustration tool.

- all our sponsors, in particular BIOSS and the University Hospital Freiburg, for their generous financial support

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