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From 2013.igem.org

Prologue

January

• The team finding is over, iGEM-Team Bielefeld 2013 is complete (10 students, 8 studying molecular biotechnology and 2 genome-based system-biology, 3 bachelor students and 7 master students). We’ll have a great time with a lot of fun but also a lot of work is ahead.
• We have created our official german website igem-bielefeld.de
• We’ve designed our team logo 2013 with orange as our team color.
• In order to find enough financial supporters we’ve made a sponsorship portfolio.

February

• Manuel will be our social media manager.
• We are planning an iGEM weekend with the whole team for team finding and planning

the project.

• Creating an inlet for the sponsorship portfolio with additional information for

interested companies.

• Interesting brainstorming for the further topic selection, here are some of our ideas:
  • Mercury detection
  • Monolinoren (lindane) reduction / detection
  • Polyurethane degradation by fungi

  - Smog filter 
  - Complexing toxic gold ions
  - Radiation / x-ray radiation: before-after proteomsensor
  - Biocatalytic batteries, redox reactions in bacteria: Microbial Fuel Cells

(Maybe Cell free systems)

  - Bacteriorhodopsin, bacterial cell as data storage
  - Heparin production by bacteria
  - Scent bacteria
  - A rapid test for fungal infections 
  - Mold filter
  - Biological heating by microorganisms (Hummel heating) and warmers in

biodegradable materials

  - Plastic degradation by fungi with Polyurethanase
  - Prevention of biofilm formation in different systems 

March

April