Attributions

The project idea - the conversion of blood types from A, B, or AB to O - was drafted by the team members themselves..

System design

The project idea - the conversion of blood types from A, B, or AB to O - and the overall system design were developped by the team members themselves without outside help. However, the feasibility of the project draft was then discussed with our instructors, Professor Dr. Ralf-Peter Jansen, and Dr. Elisabeth Fuss. Biosafety concerns for potential experiments with human blood were also discussed with Professor Dr. Jansen since the experiments would have taken place in his laboratory.

All part and primer design was performed by us student team members.

Lab supplies

We have ordered most consumables and reagents ourselves without the help or advice of instructors or other scientists. Some reagents like Bacto-Yeast Extract were obtained from Professor Dr. Jansen's stock. Lab hardware (thermo cyclers, mixers, incubators,...) were shared with the group of Professor Dr. Jansen since we were working in their laboratory.

Lab and lab hardware

Most experiments were carried out at the team's laboratory at the IFIB (Interfakultäres Institut für Biochemie) in Tübingen. The team's laboratory was kindly provided by Professor Ralf-Peter Jansen. For practical reasons one team members has carried out plasmid preparations at University of Tübingen's ZMBP (Center for Plant Molecular Biology). All team members were introduced to the handling of complex instruments by the team's instructors or (when necessary) by the host lab's workers. After this introduction all lab hardware was operated solely by team members.

DNA-sequencing

All DNA-sequencing was performed by an external provider (). Sequencing results were evaluated by the team members alone.

Lab work

All lab work was conducted by the team members themselves. Neither the team's instructors nor host lab workers have performed one single experiment described in this wiki. External influence on lab work was restricted to advice.