Acknowledgements

"No man is an island" is not just a well-worded phrase by John Donne but a fact. We could not have competed in this year's iGEM competition without the help of many individuals. Thus, we sincerely want to say "thanky you" to all the people who have supported us over the course of this year's iGEM competition.

First of all we are most grateful to Dr. Elisabeth Fuss, a researcher located at the Inferfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, who has supported our iGEM-Team since 2012 in many ways, has supported us with plasmids and enzymes this year, and helped us with organizing our School-Project.

Then we also want to express our sincerest thanks to Professor Dr. Jansen who has most generously provided us with a modern laboratory and modern lab equipment for the third consecutive time this year. He receives our thanks for discussing technical, legal, and organizational problems and questions with us on a nearly weekly basis.

Then we also want to thank Professor Dr. Schwarzer for generously allowing us to use his lab hardware for synthesising peptides (like SpyTag and C-intein). Our sincere thanks also go to Professor Kalbacher who has supported our project by kindly providing us with his hardware for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI). We thank Professor Dr. Rapaport and Professor Dr. Stehle for sharing their consumables with us. Professor Dr. Stehle is also thanked for providing us with several lab instruments like peristaltic pumps and sharing his NanoDrop with us. We also want to thank Dr. Pimpl (Center for Plant Molecular Biology ) for allowing us to perform a plasmid preparation at his lab and using his consumables for this. Also, we are very grateful to all the members of the mentioned labs for helping us perform our experiments with their equipment.