Dr. Nico Claassens
Dr. Robert Smith
For their immense amount of support, advice, feedback, inspiration and especially the open attitude in every situation. You both are the true pillars that pushed us to create our project. We truly believe we created a beautiful project, where we can all be extremely proud of and you helped us to accomplish that!
Advisors
Dr. Enrique Asín García
Dr. Cristina Furlan
Dr. Thijs Nieuwkoop
Lorenzo Olivi
Vittorio Rainaldi
Dr. Anneleen Segers
Dr. Maria Suarez Diez
Julia Rijssenbeek
Dr. Zoë Robaey
Nicola Trevisan
Suzan Yilmaz
For helping us every day and always being available for feedback and support. This was not only for the whole project, but also for our individual subprojects in the lab, as well for the wiki and the end presentation.
General and Wiki support
Prof. Dr. Thijs Ettema - head of the chair group Microbiology
For allowing the six of us to be affiliated with the Chair group of Microbiology and allowing us to work in the Laboratories of Microbiology and for providing us office space.
Dr. Maria Suarez Diez - head of the chair group Systems & Synthetic Biology
For allowing the five of us to be affiliated with the Chair group Systems and Synthetic Biology and allowing us to work in their laboratory and providing office space for the team.
Willemijn Ramondt - secretary of Systems & Synthetic Biology
For giving us access to the iGEM mail, booking meeting rooms and being our contact with the financial department of the WUR.
WUR Student Challenges
For giving us office space during our time in iGEM, where we spent time brainstorming our initial ideas and worked around the clock to finish the Wiki.
Student Challenge Learning Journey
Dr. Judith Gulikers
Dr. Carla Oonk
Rio Pals
Femma Roschar
Cassandra Tho
Auke Westerterp
For teaching on how to use each other strengths in a team and help us grasp our challenge learning experiences and translate them into objectives, both on a personal and professional level.
Lab support
The laboratories of the WUR; Bioprocess Engineering, Human Nutrition and Health, Microbiology and Systems & Synthetic Biology
For the great place and welcoming people to work with.
Dr. Belén Adiego Perez
Rob Joosten
Tom Schonewille
Mieke Poland
For giving us laboratory and technical support throughout all the months.
Philippe Puylaert
Wendy Evers
Sebastiaan Haemers
Mieke Poland
For the safety tours for the laboratories of Systems & Synthetic Biology, Microbiology, Bioprocess Engineering and Human Nutrition and Health.
Scientific counsel
Dr. Dieuwertje Kok
Prof. Dr. Ellen Kampman
For helping us creating our cookbook and for her lecture at the book launch.
Prof. Dr. John van der Oost
For giving us the opportunity to present and get important feedback on our sub-projects in the weekly meetings.
Prof. Dr. Hauke Smidt
For inspiring us with interesting lectures about the microbiome and giving us important feedback on our project.
Dr. Raymond Staals
For inspiring us with interesting lectures about synthetic biology and giving us important feedback on our project.
Dr. Gorben Pijlman
For helping us understand what the current regulations and steps are for the approval of a new GMO technology.
Fundraising help and advice
Arianne van Ballegooij
Danielle Grashuis
For helping the set-up for our crowdfunding.
Thomas Ariaans
For his workshop on sponsor recruitment.
Geurt van Renselaar.
For his workshop on bookkeeping.
Wiki support
All advisors
For giving extensive support and feedback to us about our Wiki, which helped us to get it to the next level.
Human practices support
Dr. Pim Klaassen
For his lecture and exercise on how to approach stakeholders.
Dr. Bob Mulder
For giving us the Human Practices workshop, where we were inspired about the importance and possibilities of implementing Human Practices in our project.
Dr. Zoë Robaey
Dr. Robert Smith
Julia Rijssenbeek
For helping us weekly, by brainstorming with us about our Human Practices projects, finding new stakeholders and additionally validating the work that we were doing.
Stakeholders
Academia
Dr. Gwenny Fuhler
For providing wisdom on the human microbiome.
Dr. Markus Gwiggner
For giving us understanding on the English screening program and its limitations.
Prof. Dr. Monique van Leerdam
For helping us to understand the microbiome and the current Dutch screening program.
Industry
Dr. Janneke Ouwerkerk - NIZO
Dr. Lu Wang - NIZO
Dr. Joyce Mulder - NIZO
For giving their insights on probiotic bacteria and the industry around them. Additionally, on how to make our product more feasible for a real-life application.
Dr. Paul Soons
For giving us important feedback, by critically looking at our project from a pharmaceutical point of view.
Dr. Arjan Tibbe
For brainstorming with us about our project and giving us interesting leads and feedback to improve our project.
Dr. Elizabeth Vitalis
For helping us understand the potential biosecurity issues our tool might have.
Industry
Wessel Teunisse - RIVM
Dr. Cecile van der Vlugt-RIVM
For providing us with advice regarding all safety aspects within our research project.
Iris Seriese
For helping us understand how the current Dutch screening program works and for giving us the idea of the app.
Dr. Gorben Pijlman
For giving us insight into the legal framework around GMOs, especially for GMOs used as a diagnostic tool.
Patrick Vrijlandt
For helping us understand the potential biosecurity issues our tool might have.
Society
Lizette de Vries
For sharing her experience as a patient.
Petra Kellerhuis
For giving us insights in her experiences as a patient, but also on the needs of potential users. Additionally, she helped us with setting up the survey.
Danielle Grashuis
For sharing her experience with colorectal cancer.
Ray Brouwer
For sharing his experience as part of the risk group.
Dr. Beatrijs Haverkamp
For giving us advice on how to frame the cookbook.
Alex (name change for privacy reasons)
For sharing their experience as a patient.
Entrepeneurial guide
Niek Savelkoul - Scope
Janneke Ouwerkerk - NIZO
Dr. Peter van Gelderen - ICOS
Dr. Katarzyna Gil - ICOS
For helping us understand how the start-up world works and what the requirements are to scale up your venture.
Outreach & Education
BalanceBuddy
Fleur Porskamp
Meyke Faber
Rosanne Sienema
For our collaboration, we created a cookbook with affordable and easy recipes that help people prevent colorectal cancer. Additionally, to reach as many people as possible, we did a book launch together and spread a PDF of the cookbook through both our networks.
Schools
Jaap Weijers - Dongemond College
Karin Lange - SKOVV Wageningen
For allowing us to educate the next generation of students and inspire them about the field of synthetic biology.
Library
Rieke Meindertsma
Percy Cicilia Jr - Bblthk Wageningen
For helping us host en set-up our book launch at their location, city library Wageningen.
Presentation coaching
Frank Smallegange
All advisors especially Dr. Cristina Furlan, Lorenzo Olivi and Suzan Yilmaz.
All attendees of our presentation for the chair groups for their feedback.
For their important tips and feedback, to help improve the story of our presentation and our presentation skills.
Sponsors
For supporting our project, our sponsors are truly essential. Without them we just would not have been able to conduct our research the way we did now.
Special thanks
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Jurre Steens
For helping us 3D-printing our Colourectal keychains.
Dr. Rudolf von Bünau - Ardeypharm/Pharma-Centrale
For his contributions, in making it able for us to use E. coli Nissle 1917.
Tim van der Vooren
For all his work on the Colourectal-app.
Ahmed Esmail
For helping us design the Colourectal step-by-step cartoon.
Survey
Finally, we would like to thank all the applicants of our survey. They helped us a lot in doing our Human Practices and correspondingly improving our project.