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The TU-Munich iGEM team 2013

Our iGEM team is mainly made up of two groups who met in the beginning of summer and xxx. Five students who already participated together with our two instructors in last year´s iGEM competition and a circle of friends studying in their 4th bachelor semester who heard of last years iGEM project and were enthusiastic to join.

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Student Members

Andreas-David Brunner

Master of QuikChange
Field of Study: MBT
Semester: Bachelor 4rd semester

Christopher Wolf

Field of Study: Mathematics (Cambridge University)
Semester: Bachelor 6th semester

Dong-Jiunn Jeffery Truong

24/7
Field of Study: Molecular Biotechnology
Semester: Masters 4th semester
Former participation in TU_Munich 2012 team
The happier we get, the less we see.

Florian Albrecht

Field of Study: Molecular Biotechnology
Semester: Bachelor 4rd semester

Ingmar Polte

47000 xg -polte
Field of Study: Molecular Biotechnology
Semester: Bachelor 6th semester
Former participation in TU_Munich 2012 team

Johanna Brueggenthies

The Gel-Penetrator
Field of Study: Biochemistry
Semester: Bachelor 4rd semester

Katrin Fischer

Microwave-Katrin
Field of Study: Molecular Biotechnology
Semester: Bachelor 4rd semester
Former participation in TU_Munich 2012 team

Louise Funke

Dances with Wolves
Field of Study: Biochemistry
Semester: Bachelor 4rd semester

Philipp Schneider

Field of Study: Engineering
Semester: Bachelor 6th semester

Rosario Ciccone

Eagle Eye
Field of Study: Biochemistry
Semester: Bachelor 4rd semester

Instructors

Prof. Dr. Arne Skerra

Since 1998 Prof. Dr. Arne Skerra is Full Professor at the [http://www.tum.de Technische Universität München], where he heads the [http://www.lrz.de/~Biologische-Chemie/index.html Institute of Biological Chemistry]. He is internationally renowned for his comprehensive experience and his pioneering contributions in the fields of molecular biotechnology and protein engineering. In addition to his scientific excellence he strives to apply and economically utilize academic results, and to date he founded two start-ups. He advises our iGEM team scientifically and offers laboratory places at his chair.

Dr. Meike Meißner

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Leonie Reichart

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Volker Morath

Volker studied Biology and Biotechnology at Freiburg University, the ESBS and TU Munich and finished these studies during this summer. He has already participated in the two former iGEM Teams Freiburg 2010 and TU_Munich 2012.

Fabian Fröhlich

Fabian is our instructor for modelling, mathematics, programming but he also knows pretty much about Synthetic Biology from his participations in iGEM in the teams TU_Munich 2011 and TU_Munich 2012.

Advisors

Prof. Dr. Ralf Reski

Prof. Dr. Reski´s team at the [http://www.plant-biotech.net/ Chair for Plant Biotechnology] is working on gene expression (transcripts, proteins, protein-modifications, metabolites, sub-cellular integration) in Physcomitrella patens at different levels in correlation with phenotype analysis and additionally employs comparative genomics approaches. Their holistic strategy on plant development combines biology, tools for micro analysis, computational biology and modelling. The method of homologous recombination in Physcomitrella is about five orders of magnitude more efficient than in Arabidopsis and is applied to analyse novel genes by knockout and allele replacement. Functional genomics of Physcomitrella were initiated in cooperation with industrial partners to identify novel genes relevant to metabolic engineering and to abiotic stresses such as drought, salt and cold with prospects on direct transfer to crop plants for improved performance. Transgenic Physcomitrella can be grown photoautotrophically in bioreactors. The team works on the production of pharmaceutically relevant proteins in such cultures in co-operation with the university spin-off company greenovation Biotech, Freiburg.

Dr. Gertrud Wiedemann

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