Supporting people of iGEM Berlin 2014

• Faivre Group at Max Planck Institute Potsdam
  
Provided us a Mikrofluidic channel and magnetotactic bacteria
• Prof. Ellerbrock from Robert Koch Institute
  
Provided us RKI gene synthesis of Pseudomonas Putida Metallothionein (PPMT)
• Franz-Josef Schmitt from the Bioenergetics workgroup at TU Berlin
  
Provided us a Fluorescence microscope and software OpenProjektLabor
• Research Institute & Academy for Brewery in Berlin (VLB) e.V.
  
Provided us genomic DNA of Pseudomonas Putida
• Virtus Parva iGEM Team 2014 from Mexico
  We used their project animation at our workshop
• Shuyi Sylvia Yang from iGEM Paris Bettencourt visited us
  Tjna Ho from iGEM Hongkong Team visited us
• iGEM Calgary provided us our first Biobrick (Ferritin)

Financial Support, Providers of Chemicals and Laboratory Equipment

• BioCat AK Biokatalyse (Prof. Budisa)
• Adares Patent- und Rechtsanwälte
• IBB Investitionsbank Berlin
• Carl Roth
• TU Berlin Gesellschaft von Freunden der Technischen Universität Berlin
• New England BioLabs Inc.
• Promega
• Agrarbörse Deutschland Ost e.V.
• GenExpress
• ERA SynBio
• Unikat
• TU Berlin

Art & Design

• Florian Renner created a 3D-Animation for the project part of our Homepage (www.florian-renner.com)
• Graffiti for our iGEM Logo (Leo, local Graffiti artist)
• Fotoshooting with Swen Rudolph as basis for our Homepage (www.swenrudolph.de)

Presentations of iGEM Berlin 2014 at different events or conferences

• 4. April 2014: 3rd BioProScale Symposium at IfGB: Institute for Fermentation Industry and Biotechnology of Berlin
• 6. -8. May 2014: XB1: First Conference on Xenobiology in Genoa
• 24. -26. May 2014: Presentation of iGEM Berlin at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich
• 18. August 2014: “Long Night of Science” in our home laboratory in Berlin
• 20. September 2014: Open day at Institute for Chemistry at TU Berlin

Articles and representation in press

• iGEM represents itself at www.hybrid-plattform.org as research project
• Article “From an insider’s perspective: About Freedom in Science and Scientific Curiosity”
  written by Johann Bauerfeind at www.hybrid-plattform.org
• Article about iGEM and the German iGEM Meetup in Munich at www.laborjournal.de
• Article at TU Berlin intern “Joystick for Bacteria”

Workshops

• Workshop 16. - 17. August2014 “Down into the Test Tube”. Aim of this workshop was to bring scientists and people from disciplines like design and art together to form an innovative perspective on new solutions for future problems
• Workshop 5. - 7. September 2014 “Synthetic Biology” in co-operation with C-LAB Art Laboratory Berlin. The workshop was for artists, designers, DIY biologists, and especially lay people who wish to gain practical experience with the processes and methods in the creation of new life forms, bio-materials and new forms of expression

Ethics & Morale

• Fiction text about magnetic bacteria written by Ping Lu (Art College Cologne)
• Translation of our homepage content in different languages by Andrés Salazar

Excursion

• iGEM Conference in Munich 24.-26.May 2014
  
Get-together with teams from Germany and debating at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich about their projects