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The beast and its Achilles heel:
A novel target to fight multi-resistant pathogenic bacteria
Sponsors
KWS SAAT AG, Einbeck
KWS SAAT AG is one of the world's leading plant breeding companies, represented in about 70 countries with 60 subsidiaries, affiliated companies and distributors. The product range contains a broad range of varieties for sugar beet, corn, cereals, oil crops and potatoes. KWS conducted business since 1856 in an independent and sustainable manner. Net sales in the year 2010/11 amounted 855 Mio €, about 75 percent was generated in foreign countries. Currently, about 3,600 employees work for the KWS Group worldwide.
KWS has been breeding crops for temperate climates for more than 150 years. To us, the breeding of plants means understanding and using natural life process for the benefit mankind. With the help of modern crop breeding methods, we continuously increase the yield of our varieties - as well as their resistance to diseases and pests. As a specialist in breeding and seed production, KWS supports farmers in mastering challenges of the future.
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Faculty of Biology
The faculty of biology represented by Prof. Dr. Martin Göpfert (Dean of faculty) is supporting our iGEM team by paying the registration fee and accrediting the project. Moreover, the Master program “Microbiology and Biochemistry” (speaker: Prof. Dr. Volker Lipka) supports our project.
The Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB)
GZMB is a joint initiative of more than 30 research groups, affiliated with the Faculty of Biology and Psychology, the Medical School (University Medicine), Faculty of Chemistry, the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, and the Faculty of Forest Sciences at the Georg August University. All of these research groups work in the field of molecular biology. The GZMB is represented by Prof. Dr. Ivo Feußner.
