iGEM Team Saarland 2014

Students

Aline Loehfelm, Andreas Riske, Aurélien Strehl, Denise Pirritano, Fabian Riske, Lukas Jarzembowski, Marc Finkler, Maximilian Ehrhardt, Nicolas Ecker, Philip Hartz

Advisors/Instructors

Jennifer Folz, Julia Michely

Handled Challenges

• Project planning
• Project organisation
• Laboratory work
• Sponsoring
• Ethics project (RPG)
• Team wiki
• Website programming
• PR work
• Preparation for Jamboree (Lecture, Scientific poster, Banner)

Graphic Design

Design and Consept were created by Jennifer Folz. Most of the graphics were hand-drawn scanned and digitally edited.

Saarland university

The iGEM Team Saarland would like to acknowledge the following groups, institutions and individuals for their support:

Department of Zoology/Physiology – Neurobiology

Prof. Dr. Uli Müller
Prof. Dr. Müller kindly provided us with materials for our experiments and the premises where we could conduct these experiments.
[http://neurobiologie.uni-saarland.de/GO TO: Department of Zoology/Physiology – Neurobiology]

Department of Plant Biology

Dr. Dierk Wanke
Dr. Wanke kindly provided us with experimental materials and a laboratory where we conducted our experiments.
[http://pflanzenbiologie.uni-saarland.de/index.php/de/GO TO: Department of Plant Biology ]

Department of Biochemistry

Prof. Dr. Rita Bernhardt
Prof. Dr. Bernhardt kindly provided us with materials for our experimental work and contacts to sponsors.
[http://bernhardt.biochem.uni-sb.de/ GO TO: Department of Biochemistry ]

Department of Experimental Physics

Prof. Dr. Christian Wagner
Dipl. Phys. Andreas Gross kindly helped us with viscosity measurements
[http://agwagner.physik.uni-saarland.de/GO TO: Department of Experimental Physics ]

Department of Molecular Cell Dynamics

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Martin Simon
Dr. Simon provided us with valuable advice regarding gene synthesis and codon adaption.
[http://www.molcell.uni-saarland.de/de/home/GO TO: Department of Molecular Cell Dynamics ]

Department of Physiology

PD Dr. Elmar Krause
Dr. Krause kindly helped us with the laser scanning microscopy.
[http://physiology2.uni-saarland.de/en/cellular-neurophysiology/elmar-krause/ GO TO: Department of Physiology ]

[http://zhmb.uni-saarland.de/Centre for Human- and Molecular Biology]

Prof. Dr. Roy Lancaster
Prof. Dr. Lancaster kindly helped us by providing financial aid to our project and contacts to media organisations (university press office).
[http://strukturbiologie.uni-saarland.de/ GO TO: Department of Structurbiology ]

Prof. Dr. Manfred Schmitt
Prof. Dr. Schmitt provided us with good advice regarding the realisation of our experimental procedures.
[http://zellbiologie.uni-saarland.de/ GO TO: Department of Cellbiology ]

Press and Communication Team

Melanie Loew kindly helped us with public relation work.
[http://www.uni-saarland.de/aktuelles/presse/presseteam.html GO TO: Press and Communication Team ]

Impressum/Copyright