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<h2>The Team</h2>
<h2>The Team</h2>
<h4>SDU's brightest, the main cast</h4>
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"Every gun makes its own tune."
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<b>- Clint Eastwood</b> as Blondie in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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             <div class="va-title"><div class="va-title-sub">Team member</div>Andreas</div>
             <div class="va-title"><div class="va-title-sub">Team member</div>Andreas</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Andreas Kjær</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">Andreas Kjær</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Biochemistry and molecular biology</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Biochemistry and Molecular Biology</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">E-mail</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">andkj11@student.sdu.dk</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">andkj11@student.sdu.dk</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">Motivation</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText"> Last year he ‘only’ received the Bronze medal, so he is back and fierce.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText"> Last year he ‘only’ received the Bronze medal, so he is back, and he is fierce.</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">About</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">3rd year bachelor student who was part of SDU’s iGEM team 2012. </div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">3<sup>rd</sup> year bachelor student who was part of SDU’s iGEM team 2012. </div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">Major area of contribution</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">Major area of contribution</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">Leading our characterization nightmare, including detection of rubber, and the master of our prezi’s.</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">Leading our characterization nightmare, including detection of rubber, and the master of our prezi’s.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">3rd year bachelor student</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">3<sup>rd</sup> year bachelor student</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">Major area of contribution</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">Major area of contribution</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">With her hands in almost every single part of the project, she gets the stuff done.
                 <div class="aboutText">With her hands in almost every single part of the project, she gets the stuff done.
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                 <div class="aboutText">The magician - wait, we mean mathematician, right? - of our team.</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">The magician - wait, we mean mathematician, right? - of our team.</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">Major area of contribution</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">As an applied mathematician, he have done all our dry-lab modelling and simulations of the systems. Furthermore he helped Edinburgh with their model.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">As an applied mathematician, he has done all our dry-lab modelling and simulations of the systems. Furthermore, he helped Edinburgh with their model.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Eating chocolate with Sofie - that and getting a chance to work on an exciting lab project.</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">Eating chocolate with Sofie - that and getting a chance to work on an exciting lab project.</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">About</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">2nd year bachelor student with an invisible little pixie on her shoulder luring her into the field of synthetic biology.
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                 <div class="aboutText">2<sup>nd</sup> year bachelor student with a little pixie on her shoulder luring her into the field of synthetic biology.
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                 <div class="aboutLabel">Major area of contribution</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">Major area of contribution</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">iGEM provided a great opportunity to wear a lab coat over short shorts.</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">iGEM provided a great opportunity to wear a lab coat over short shorts.</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">About</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">2nd year bachelor student with an insatiable hunger.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">2<sup>nd</sup> year bachelor student with an insatiable hunger.</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">Major area of contribution</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">With superior English skills, he is an important contributor to the grammar of our wiki and the accuracy of our lab work. He quickly learned how to behave in the wet-lab, and added a touch of magic.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">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.</div>
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             <div class="va-title"><div class="va-title-sub">Team member</div> Patrick</div>
             <div class="va-title"><div class="va-title-sub">Team member</div> Patrick</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Patrick Rosendahl Andreassen</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">Patrick Rosendahl Andreassen</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Biochemistry and molecular biology</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Biochemistry and Molecular Biology</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">E-mail</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">paand11@student.sdu.dk</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">paand11@student.sdu.dk</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">The challenge provided by the iGEM competition.</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">The challenge provided by the iGEM competition.</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">About</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">3rd year bachelor student with a passion for working in the lab and obtaining results. ”The PCR doesn’t work you say? Patrick the PCR guy is on his way!”</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">3<sup>rd</sup> year bachelor student with a passion for working in the lab and obtaining results.</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">Major area of contribution</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">He have had the overview of all the wet-lab projects, and subprojects, and sub-subprojects, and sub-sub-subprojects. And helping the wet-lab newbies by explaining need-to-know stuff and thereby avoiding making huge or irreversible mistake.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">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.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Getting hands-on experience.</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">Getting hands-on experience.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">3rd year biomedicine student with a strict sense of order (humor). She’s the reason that we haven’t redone everything!</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">3<sup>rd</sup> year biomedicine student with a strict sense of order (humor). She’s the reason that we haven’t redone everything!</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">Major area of contribution</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText"> She have been an superior asset in the Wet-lab. Furthermore, she have been writing out the agenda each and every morning in her beautiful handwriting so that everybody knows what to do - without a degree in deciphering.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText"> She has been an major asset in the Wet-lab. Furthermore, she wrote out the agenda each and every morning in her beautiful handwriting.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">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!</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">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!</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">1st year bachelor student curious about lab work and undecided whether the ER or the lab is more interesting.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">1<sup>st</sup> year bachelor student curious about lab work and undecided whether the ER or the lab is better.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">A great contributor in the wet-lab and as a writer of multiple articles for the wiki.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">A great contributor in the wet-lab and a writer of multiple articles for the wiki.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Thøger Jensen Krogh</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">Thøger Jensen Krogh</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Biochemistry and Molecular Biology</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">E-mail</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">E-mail</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">thkro11@student.sdu.dk</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">thkro11@student.sdu.dk</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">The nocturnal being and wiki master of our team.</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">The nocturnal being and wiki master of our team.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Being positioned in front of his computer most of the time, he did our dry-lab (not to the modelling; but sequence analysis, primers etc.), and managed the wiki project. Only did little wet-lab, mostly during the night when no-one else were present. </div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Being positioned in front of his computer most of the time, he did our dry-lab (not to the modelling, but sequence analysis, primer design, etc.). Carried out some wet-lab work during the nights. </div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">zahle@sdu.dk</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">zahle@sdu.dk</div>
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                <div class="aboutText">Once an iGEM’er, always an iGEM’er!</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">PhD in Biochemistry and later postdoc in Microbiology but deep down just a person who loves trying new things.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">PhD in Biochemistry and later postdoc in Microbiology, but deep down just a person who loves trying new things.</div>
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                <div class="aboutText">Getting the team funded and acting lab-mom when needed</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">PhD Fellow</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">E-mail</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">kijacobsen@health.sdu.dk</div>
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                <div class="aboutText"> Participant on SDUs first iGEM team and supervisor of the second team - She never left!</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">PhD student, Master of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.</div>
                 <div class="aboutText">PhD student, Master of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.</div>
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                <div class="aboutText">Trying to keep the great overview and especially contributed to get the wild ideas for characterizing our systems into shaped procedures.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Tina Kronborg</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Academic Assistant at Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of SDU</div>
                 <div class="aboutLabel">E-mail</div>
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                <div class="aboutText">Curiosity.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Master of Science in Biomedicine</div>
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                <div class="aboutText">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!</div>
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             <div class="va-title"><div class="va-title-sub">Advisor</div> Jakob</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Associate Professor at Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of SDU.</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">Master of Science in Biomedicine</div>
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                 <div class="aboutText">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.</div>
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<h2>University of Southern Denmark (SDU)</h2>
<h2>University of Southern Denmark (SDU)</h2>
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<h2>Odense</h2>
<h2>Odense</h2>
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dense 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.  
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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.  
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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.
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.

Latest revision as of 22:00, 3 October 2013

The Team

SDU's brightest, the main cast

"Every gun makes its own tune." - Clint Eastwood as Blondie in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Team member
Andreas
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.
Team member
Heidi
Full name
Heidi Wille
Line of study
Biomedicine
E-mail
heijo11@student.sdu.dk
Motivation
Boston sounded like a great city!
About
3rd year bachelor student
Major area of contribution
With her hands in almost every single part of the project, she gets the stuff done.
Team member
Nicky
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.
Team member
Maria
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!
Team member
Mattias
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.
Team member
Patrick
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.
Team member
Sissel
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.
Team member
Sofie
Full name
Sofie Fredberg
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.
Team member
Thøger
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 to the modelling, but sequence analysis, primer design, etc.). Carried out some wet-lab work during the nights.
Instructor
Ann
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
Instructor
Kirstine
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.
Instructor
Tina
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!
Advisor
Jakob
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. Source http://www.sdu.dk/en/Om_SDU

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.