Who is Dominik?

Name: Dominik Pichert

Age: 26

Program: M.Sc. Molecular Biosciences

Motivation: I watched many years ago a documentary about synthetic biology and they introduced the iGem competition. I thought this is really cool - let's do this! And now we are doing it! Thanks to Luisa who pushed the project start!

Good at: Always find good reasons to take a break

Fun fact: You'll find me talking to myself and dancing from bench to bench.

Who is Luisa?

Name: Luisa Langhoff

Age: 22

Program: M.Sc. Molecular Biosciences

Motivation: To start a project from the beginning and make new (international) friends.

Good at: Preparing SDS-gels and writing meeting protocols.

Fun fact: Does artistic cycling for 18 years!

Who is Christian?

Name: Christian Rische

Age: 22

Program: B.Sc. Biosciences

Motivation: I'm excited to learn what it's like to plan and execute our own project from scratch.

Good at: Cell culturing and qPCR.

Fun fact: Expert in cooking dishes that take less than 5 minutes.

Who is Dominik?

Name: Dominik Stroh

Age: 24

Program: M.Sc. Bioinformatics

Motivation: To improve collaborative work with wet-lab scientists.

Good at: Watching biologists do lab work.

Fun fact: Favourite hobby is crashing compute clusters.

Who is Franka?

Name: Franka-Maria Schubert

Age: 21

Program: B.Sc. Biosciences

Motivation: To gain more lab experience and meet other people who love biology.

Good at: All the creative stuff.

Fun fact: I am a walking radio, you'll always catch me singing!

Who is Jacklyn?

Name: Jacklyn Schmid

Age: 26

Program: B.Sc. Biochemistry

Motivation: Before I start my masters I have a lot of free time and I want to spend it in my favorite place: the lab!

Good at: Making some trouble in the lab :D

Fun fact: Did you know that butterflies taste with their feet?

Who is Julia?

Name: Julia Schwarzpaul

Age: 23

Program: B.Sc. Biosciences

Motivation: Excited to plan and perform our project on our own.

Good at: Cell culture work.

Fun fact: Big fan of dinosaurs!

Who is Leonardo?

Name: Leonardo Cufaro

Age: 19

Program: B.Sc. Biochemistry

Motivation: I'm really excited to experience what it's like to work in the lab, particularly because it's our own project.

Good at: We'll see :)

Fun fact: I love pizza!

Who is Lucas?

Name: Lucas Ban

Age: 25

Program: M.Sc. Biochemistry

Motivation: Creating a project plan from scratch to achieve an exciting goal in a team seemed to be a worthful experience (and already is). Additionally, the possibility to teach undergraduate students skills they possibly only saw on screen during the last two years.

Good at: Delegating lab work - ask Moritz ;)

Fun fact: Stairs are my worst enemy!

Who is Marcel?

Name: Marcel Wittenberg

Age: 21

Program: B.Sc. Biochemistry

Motivation: I would like to develop my skills in the laboratory and do something good for the environment at the same time.

Good at: Some organic chemistry.

Fun fact: I helped give birth to a child.

Who is Martin?

Name: Martin Fehmer

Age: 24

Program: M.Sc. Biochemistry

Motivation: Improving my project planning-, organisatorial- and teamworking skills.

Good at: Unnecessarily overplanning minute procedures.

Fun fact: Once spilled one liter of Bromphenol blue on his bench.

Who is Moritz?

Name: Moritz Tettenborn

Age: 25

Program: M.Sc. Biochemistry

Motivation: Synthetic biology is my favorite field.

Good at: Finding creative ideas/solutions and being excited about them.

Fun fact: I can fold your clothes while you still wear them - its called involuntary yoga.

Who is Moritz?

Name: Moritz Venne

Age: 25

Program: M.Sc. Molecular Biosciences

Motivation: Great opportunity to hone my skills both in planning and executing a collaborative, inter-disciplinary project. I see it as preparation for my PhD, plus I get to hang out with a bunch great people who share many of my passions.

Good at: Troubleshooting and finding creative solutions to everyday lab issues. I'm also proficient in navigating the realm of molecular systems and making connections between different aspects of our project.

Fun fact: I'm bad with spontaneous prompts.

Who is Noa?

Name: Noa-Lena Köller

Age: 21

Program: B.Sc. Biosciences

Motivation: Gain lab experience and help with something that's good for the environment.

Good at: Overinterpreting simple information.

Fun fact: Has a collection of cat paintings.

Who is Sandra?

Name: Sandra Bettenbühl

Age: 22

Program: M.Sc. Molecular Biosciences

Motivation: I really enjoy working in the lab with other young people. In addition, I think it's great that you can now plan your own project and be responsible for it yourself.

Good at: Preparing Agarose-gels and southern-blots.

Fun fact: When I was a child, my greatest wish was to start a dog breeding, but I have always been very afraid of dogs.

Who is Vanessa?

Name: Vanessa Weigel

Age: 22

Program: B.Sc. Biosciences

Motivation: Gain lab experience and make some new friends.

Good at: We will see.

Fun fact: After graduation I hiked 850km!

Who is Prof. Dr. Pos?

Name: Prof. Dr. Klaas Martinus Pos

Position: W3-Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, Biocenter of the Goethe University

Area of research: Membrane Transport Machineries.