Attributions

After a lot of brainstorming, discussion and presentations in self-organized team meetings over the first months, we decided to work on a Microbial Fuel Cell, although this issue is very complex and there is hardly no expertise in this area of ​​research at our university. iGEM-Team Bielefeld 2013 team members are probably the first people at the University of Bielefeld, who built an Microbial Fuel Cell.

All work described on this wiki or on our Partsregistry pages was done by ourselves. We managed the whole project, from planing to financing and the complete lab work by ourselves. Nevertheless we could not have done all this work without the help, advice and guidance of several people. Hence, special thanks to the following people you can see in the Acknowledgements part:

Acknowledgements

After a lot of brainstorming, discussion and presentations in self-organized team meetings over the first months, we decided to work on a Microbial Fuel Cell, although this issue is very complex and there is hardly no expertise in this area of ​​research at our university. iGEM-Team Bielefeld 2013 team members are probably the first people at the University of Bielefeld, who built an Microbial Fuel Cell.

All work described on this wiki or on our Partsregistry pages was done by ourselves. We managed the whole project, from planing to financing and the complete lab work by ourselves. Nevertheless we could not have done all this work without the help, advice and guidance of several people. Hence, special thanks to the following people:

• Our Instructor Dr.Jörn Kalinowski for giving us the opportunity to participate in iGEM through letting us work in his lab. We were provided with our own laboratory room and could use all instruments and materials of the lab. Furthermore, Jörn helped us with scientific guidance, financing and was always available for answering questions.

• Dr. Falk Harnisch – Via Skype we discussed about our project and he visited us in Bielefeld to inspect our MFC so we profite a lot from his enormous knowledge!

• Prof. Dr. Karl Friehs – By inspecting our Biosafety-System, he had the idea of using the RNase Ba (Barnase) instead of the Colicin E2 as toxic gene product. Besides he gave us the hint to use a double lac promoter to reduce the basal transcription of the lac promoter.

• Johanna Mueschner and Ann-Christin Kull – For sequencing our biobricks and especially for getting our devices at the last minute verified.

• Dr. Heino Büntemeyer - HPLC for Ribos

• Markus und Lena - LC/MS Ribos

• The working group of Prof. Dr. Dario Anselmetti, with special help from Dr. Volker Walhorn, who measured our self-prepared AFM glass slides and visualized the cell surface of Escherichia coli with porins by atomic force microscopy.

• Vera Ortseifen who gave us support dealing with protein analysis by MALDI-TOF MS.

• Robert Braun as former iGEM team member helped us with his experience, listened to our discussions and problems during our weekly lab work.

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