The Team
SDU's brightest
"Every gun makes its own tune."
- Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Full name
Andreas Kjær
Line of study
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
E-mail
andkj11@student.sdu.dk
Motivation
Last year he ‘only’ received the Bronze medal, so he is back, and he is fierce.
About
3rd year bachelor student who was part of SDU’s iGEM team 2012.
Major area of contribution
Leading our characterization nightmare, including detection of rubber, and the master of our prezi’s.
Full name
Heidi Wille Jørgensen
Line of study
Biomedicine
E-mail
heijo11@student.sdu.dk
Motivation
Boston sounded like a great city!
About
3rd year bachelor student with a passion for new experiences such as lab-work, travels, and especially chocolate.
Major area of contribution
With her hands in almost every single part of the project, she gets the stuff done.
Full name
Nicky Cordua Mattson
Line of study
Applied mathematics
E-mail
nmatt11@student.sdu.dk
Motivation
Stability properties of enzyme kinetics.
About
The magician - wait, we mean mathematician, right? - of our team.
Major area of contribution
As an applied mathematician, he has done all our dry-lab modelling and simulations of the systems. Furthermore, he helped Edinburgh with their model.
Full name
Maria Højberg Knudsen
Line of study
Medicine
E-mail
maknu12@student.sdu.dk
Motivation
Eating chocolate with Sofie - that and getting a chance to work on an exciting lab project.
About
2nd year bachelor student with a little pixie on her shoulder luring her into the field of synthetic biology.
Major area of contribution
Headmaster of our elementary school outreach projects, writer of several articles on our wiki, and a wet-labber!
Full name
Mattias Horan
Line of study
Medicine
E-mail
mahor12@student.sdu.dk
Motivation
iGEM provided a great opportunity to wear a lab coat over short shorts.
About
2nd year bachelor student with an insatiable hunger.
Major area of contribution
With superior English skills, he is an important contributor to the grammar of the wiki. Quickly, he learned how to behave in the wet-lab, adding a dash of alchemy to our work.
Full name
Patrick Rosendahl Andreassen
Line of study
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
E-mail
paand11@student.sdu.dk
Motivation
The challenge provided by the iGEM competition.
About
3rd year bachelor student with a passion for working in the lab and obtaining results.
Major area of contribution
He had the overview of all the wet-lab projects, the subprojects, and the sub-subprojects. He helped the wet-lab newbies by explaining need-to-know stuff, thereby avoiding huge or irreversible mistake.
Full name
Sissel Ida Schmidt
Line of study
Biomedicine
E-mail
sschm11@student.sdu.dk
Motivation
Getting hands-on experience.
About
3rd year biomedicine student with a strict sense of order (humor). She’s the reason that we haven’t redone everything!
Major area of contribution
She has been an major asset in the Wet-lab. Furthermore, she wrote out the agenda each and every morning in her beautiful handwriting.
Full name
Anne Sofie Fredberg Jørgensen
Line of study
Medicine
E-mail
asfredberg@gmail.com
Motivation
Studied biomedicine for a year after attending a presentation about iGEM, and had to see for herself what all the rage was about. And lots of chocolate!
About
1st year bachelor student curious about lab work and undecided whether the ER or the lab is better.
Major area of contribution
A great contributor in the wet-lab and a writer of multiple articles for the wiki.
Full name
Thøger Jensen Krogh
Line of study
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
E-mail
thkro11@student.sdu.dk
Motivation
The artificial light emission from the lab ceiling and computer screen.
About
The nocturnal being and wiki master of our team.
Major area of contribution
Being positioned in front of his computer most of the time, he did our dry-lab (not modelling, but sequence analysis, wiki, primer design, etc.). Carried out some wet-lab work during the nights.
Full name
Ann Zahle Andersen
Profession
Business Scouting Officer
E-mail
zahle@sdu.dk
Motivation
Once an iGEM’er, always an iGEM’er!
About
PhD in Biochemistry and later postdoc in Microbiology, but deep down just a person who loves trying new things.
Major area of contribution
Getting the team funded and acting lab-mom when needed
Full name
Kirstine Jacobsen
Profession
PhD Fellow
E-mail
kijacobsen@health.sdu.dk
Motivation
Participant on SDUs first iGEM team and supervisor of the second team - She never left!
About
PhD student, Master of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Major area of contribution
Trying to keep the great overview and especially contributed to get the wild ideas for characterizing our systems into shaped procedures.
Full name
Tina Kronborg
Profession
Academic Assistant at Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of SDU
E-mail
tkron@bmb.sdu.dk
Motivation
Curiosity.
About
Master of Science in Biomedicine
Major area of contribution
Having her office only few meters from ours, she has always been there for a chat or help in times of need. Always a invaluable source of inputs and feedback, and the FACS queen!
Full name
Jakob Møller-Jensen
Profession
Associate Professor at Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of SDU.
E-mail
jakobm@bmb.sdu.dk
About
PhD degree in molecular microbiology and later postdoctoral fellow at the MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. Currently heading a research group of 10 people working in the field of molecular microbiology with focus on pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli and their interactions with host cells.
Our team page at www.iGEM.org
University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
The work was carried out in the Microbiology laboratory at the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Southern Denmark in the city of Odense. Odense University was established in 1966. In 1998, it merged with two other institutes of Southern Denmark and became SDU. It has locations in multiple cities all over Denmark including Odense, Kolding, Esbjerg, Sønderborg, Slagelse, and Copenhagen with a shared focus on education and research. There are approximately 3.200 employees and more than 20.000 students enrolled; about half live and study in the city of
Odense.
Homepage of University of Southern Denmark. (Link)
Odense
Odense is quite an extraordinary city. Even though it’s the 3rd largest city of Denmark, Odense only has 2 buildings taller than the 4th floor. The city name originates from “Odins Vi”, meaning a shrine for the worshiping of Odin, the allfather of all gods from the Nordic mythology.
Located on the isle of Funen, placed almost perfectly in the middle of Denmark and with it’s direct connection to the ocean through a cove, Odense was a rich city of trade. A number of Danish kings lived in the city, Knud the Holy was even killed on the altar of the Albani cathedral during a tax-induced revolt. However, any historical figure pales in comparison to the famous author and storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, the most cherished son of Odense.
Today, Odense is a city of knowledge. A fact that is hard to dispute with the University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital being the two largest workplaces in the
city.
Odense Central Local History Library and City Archives. (Link)
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