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While the team has been working independently throughout the project, we could not have made it without the help, support, and curiosity of all the wonderful people we have been in contact with. We would like to thank all the people that have made our journey possible, both in and outside the lab.

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Principal investigator

Primary PI, Sotirios Kampranis

Asst. Professor, PLEN
Sotirios was the main responsible for the duration of the project. He guided us through the brainstorming process and helped and mentored the team in every aspect of the project, especially in scientific planning, project management, and finances. Most of the team instructors are a part of Sotirios’ research group and have helped us immensely. The yeast strain (AM254) and E. coli strain (Mac1) we have worked with were provided by Sotirios’ group. We were also provided a lab bench and most laboratory consumables through Sotirios’ group as well as training and guidance.

Secondary PI, Karel Miettinen

Postdoc, PLEN
We have been in daily contact with Karel for all matters of scientific planning. Karel was happy to share his knowledge of yeast biosensors and supported the team with feedback and guidance.

Instructors and Advisors

Nanna Heinz

Centre coordinator, PLEN
Nanna Heinz has been instrumental in shaping, training, and continuously advising the team. In the first months Nanna facilitated our meetings and the brainstorming phase, while priming us to structure our project independently and to establish a healthy meeting environment for the group, which benefited us immensely for the duration of the project. She has also acted as the first go-to person in all HR and PR matters and has guided us in solving numerous complications throughout the project.

Jon Fugl

PhD student, PLEN and former iGEM member (InCell 2017)
Jon Fugl has been an important help in the brainstorming phase of our project as well as with his experiences as an iGEM alumni (2017) and as a team instructor (2018). He has guided us in all matters: From experiment protocols to who to address for specific advice.

Nattawat Leelahakorn

Master student, University of Copenhagen and former iGEM member (PharMARSy 2018)
Nattawat Leelahakorn has been a valuable source of help in the laboratory and for the scientific planning of the project. He has always taken the time to guide us and shared his vast knowhow in working with yeast biosensors.

Lukas Ronild Hansen

Master student, University of Copenhagen
Lukas Ronild Hansen has trained and guided many members of our team in working properly with yeast and yeast transformations. He has also attended many meetings and been very helpful in all lab matters.

Casper Larsen

Master student, University of Copenhagen
Casper Larsen has capably trained and instructed two of our team members in working with MatLab for the modelling part of the project. Casper spent many hours teaching them and helped with the basic structure of the code that the team members refined and optimised with his help.

Cecilie Cetti Hansen

PhD student, PLEN and former iGEM member (UNIK 2014)
Cecilie Cetti Hansen coordinated and secured funding for NiC. Cecilie has also been a great resource for the team with her vast knowledge of the iGEM competition as well as with hands-on supervision and help in the labspace that we shared with her.

Morten Hessellund Raadam, Victor Forman, Johan Andersen-Ranberg, and Simon Dusséaux

They have guided and supported us in numerous ways in the lab, helping us find our way around, as well as providing us with scientific feedback on many occasions.

Other personnel at the Department of Plant- and Environmental Sciences (PLEN)

Jette Højgård

Section Secretary
Jette was immensely helpful and always ready to help the team with practical matters, such as travel coordination and the finances, relieving many headaches for the management team.

Tilla Augusta Engelsted

Laboratory Coordinator
Tilla helped us with many practical matters, answering endless questions, and organized the safety tours.

Birger Lindberg Møller

Professor and Head Center for Synthetic Biology
Birger provided support and feedback for our project for which we were very grateful.

Kirsten Jørgensen

Asst. Professor and Vice Head of Department for Teaching
Kirsten helped us notify proper Danish authorities for approval of our project and answered safety related questions.

Human Practices

Chrysillis Judy Magaard Polhaus

Former iGEM team member from DTU Biobuilders 2017
Product developer at Biotech Academy
For collaborating in the development of a study case for high school students. We will continue this collaboration after iGEM and finish the case.

Martin B. Justesen

Daily Leader at SUND Hub, UCPH innovation house
For advice, connections, and helping initiate our human practice ventures early in the project.

Tine Stampe

Founder and CEO of La Roar Life Science Aps
Member of SUND Hub
For market insights and help regarding our common target group.

Søren Ziebe

Head of the fertility Department at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen
For sharing knowledge of fertility treatments and procedures as well as insights regarding scientific concerns.

Morten Rønn Petersen

Laboratory manager of the fertility Department at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen
For advice and insights regarding scientific concerns, especially safety.

Victoria Sværke Rasmussen

Former iGEM team leader from UCPH 2018 “PharMARSy”
For her help structuring our human practices efforts with her experience as a previous, successful iGEM’er.

Jakob Wested

Postdoc at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) at UCPH
For guiding us through the legal landscape of GMO’s.

Anne Marie Lynge Pedersen

Professor at the Department of Odontology at the University of Copenhagen.
For invaluable advice on saliva, hormone availability, and yeast survival. She also let us test different gum bases and connected us to Fertin Pharma.

Belinda Lange

Coordinator at Department of Food Science, UCPH
For taking the time to discuss the implications and importance of taste of a yeast chewing gum.

Dr. Norbert Ketskés

Medical leader of Primus Labor
For pointing out that Ovulaid could probably also replace hormone blood tests.

Dr. Gábor Zacher

Toxicologist, Chief Medical Officer
For taking the time and thinking about the health issues our chewing gum might have.

Taste testing team

Teenager taste testing Panel
For wanting to play with different tastes together with us and for a great talk about hormonal health, the menstrual cycle and synthetic biology.

Bjarne B. Christensen

General secretary at Sex&Samfund
For educating us on the proper lingo of fertility awareness.

Erik Arvid Hosszú

Former market researcher, KÓD kft
For showing us how to use SPSS for the evaluation of our survey and for the invaluable advice on how to organize our in deep-interviews properly.

Lone Schmidt

Professor, Section of Social Medicine, UCPH
For teaching us about fertility awareness. We gained much knowledge from Lone about the women we are trying to help.

Dr. Kathya Nallapothula

Gynecologist & fertility specialist in Proddatur, Andhra Pradesh, India
For letting us into her clinic, education us about the landscape of fertility in India and for believing in our project.

Open letter response

To the people that took time to give us some valuable responses to our open letter.