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Attributions

We want to thank…

Our Principal Investigator
Prof. Dr. Dirk Tischler, Professor and Group Leader for Microbial Biotechnology at Ruhr-University Bochum.
This team wouldn't have been possible without Prof. Tischler agreeing to take the role as PI again for the second iGEM Team at the Ruhr-University Bochum and offering us a lab space in his research group.
We also have to thank him for his advice in project management and his help to find sponsors.

Our Instructor
Fabian Schultes, for his support, advice, and assistance in all stages of the project.

Team Members

All experiments were conducted by our team members; in addition to the lab work, everybody was responsible for different parts of the project.

Daniel Janzen - was part of the project leader-team and organized the project and especially coordination of different substeams and weekly meetings. Moreover he was highly involved in background research, coordinated the wet lab work, participated in organization of human practice meetings and talked to experts. In addition he coordinated the communication between the team and the supervisors and organized several offline team meetings.

Luise Pinske - was part of the project leader-team and helped with project coordination and organization. She also researched information for the dry lab and was part of the wiki and human practice team. As one of the founders of the iGEM Team Bochum, she was involved as a mentor of the new iGEM Team Münster. In addition she was responsible for organization of several safety trainings for the lab work.

Elizaveta Efanova - was part of the project leader-team and involved in the coordination of the project. She helped with the design and content of the wiki and participated in human practice meetings and in the wet lab work. Moreover she organized some collaborations and translated the Level Up pamphlet into German. Furthermore she was responsible for the communication between the team and the mentor as well as work optimization.

Hoang Duy Nguyen - was responsible for the lab work. This included adapting protocols, creating daily task lists and tracking the working process. Furthermore, he was responsible for cloning of parts, protein expression and isolation, background research and preparation of presentations.

Hermann Heinrichs - was one of the laboratory coordinators and developed the main laboratory plan as well as weekly laboratory plans. In addition, he researched wound healing disorders and MaSp protein and participated in human practice sessions and school meetings. He designed iGEM RUBochum sponsoring flyer, created some project presentations and team mascot Spatch.

Ayla Krolle - was involved in the drafting and translation of texts for the wiki, various flyers, videos, (pitch) presentations, and more. She also voiced the explanatory part of the project promotion video. Moreover, she participated in various human practices meetings and helped with the project's educational component.

Julia Kolozsy - was involved as head of sponsoring as well as an active member of several subteams, i.e. human practice, school, wiki and wet lab. In this respect, she dealt with sponsorship requests and communication, drafting the sponsorship mails, presenting the project to a school class, writing and correcting wiki texts and general lab work.

Laura Jane Dobrandt - was an active member and team leader in multiple subteams. She was responsible for creating both the wiki and the promotion video, taking over the acting in the sketch of the latter. She also organized and held multiple school presentations as well as RUB guides. Moreover, she worked in the general lab, laying some groundwork for our project.

Alexia Pano - was involved in the wet and dry lab work as a core member of the lab team, working every day to execute the lab plan of the week. She was a key member in finding the gene for our project as well as other information such as the structure of the spider silk as well as techniques of spinning said spider silk. She also designed the primers for our project and helped with the Level up collaboration translating the pamphlet into Greek.

Michelle Lübbert - helped with the elaboration and held the school lectures. She was also involved in the lab work and provided ideas for the wiki design. Moreover she was responsible for the social media content and communication with the other iGEM Teams and took photos of the lab work process.

Paul Schäfer - was involved in the dry lab and was therefore part of the research at the beginning of the project. Furthermore he was part of the subteam sponsoring and wrote an article about our work for BIOspektrum journal. In addition, he created the pitch presentation and dealt with general sponsoring requests.

Nicola Casella - was involved in video production and wiki preparation, helping in the rough script for the trailer and an overview of useful programs and commands for the use of GIT. Moreover, he worked in the general lab, testing a small experiment for the school presentation, and helped with the Level up collaboration translating the pamphlet into Spanish.

Rafael Dreher - was involved in the school presentations and helped with the lab work. He also participated in the human practice meeting and provided ideas for the wiki. In addition, he was responsible for the Infinite Art Space Collaboration.

Amene Salami - was involved in the dry and wet lab and participated in school presentations. She has also written and revised the texts for our wiki and helped with the Level up collaboration translating the pamphlet into Persian.

Irma-Sofie Dieter - was highly involved in the lab work and helped with the creation of the wiki. Moreover she analyzed data, revised the school presentations and was involved in the flyer creation.

Yasmin Dina Sherif - was our medical expert on the team. She provided us with information about chronic wounds and was also involved in the dry lab research. She had contact with the medical experts to provide the human practice meetings.

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