We'd like to thank all the people that have helped us make our project become a reality. For the past seven months we have received a lot of advice from various people, including our supervisors, stakeholders, sponsors and experts.
While all of the practical work has been performed by the team the execution would not have been possible without all these people. This page is dedicated to everyone who helped us and believed in our project.
Next to everyone who helped we also have a special page for all our sponsors, without whom this project financially would not be possible.
We would like to thank our supervisors for the greatest support we could ever receive:
Erik Steen Redeker
Lecturer at the Maastricht Science Programme provided overall assistance with any issue run into during wet-lab and dry-lab related work
Luisa Bortesi
Assistant Professor at AMIBM Institute in Molecular and Applied Biotechnology group.
Has experience working with yeast, provided info for how to best insert a specific part of our gene circuit.
Benjamin Heidt
Phd candidate at Maastricht University.
Helped us brainstorming about our ideas in our meetings.
Overall support in the lab work
Science Contributions
Willem Voncken
Associate professor at Maastricht University, his expertise includes molecular biology and molecular genetics, epigenetics.
Introduced us to CRISPR-X which utilizes AID as a mutation mechanism
Rudy Schreiber
Assistant professor at Maastricht University, has extensive experience in drug development, provided an idea to use our technology to identify distinct ligand biased signalling.
Matt Baker
Assistant Professor at Maastricht University with a hard focus on organic chemistry and part of the MERLN institute of Regenerative Medicine.
Bram Schmitz
Immunology Professor at University College Maastricht, helped to better understand the AID mechanism and provided knowledge about affinity maturation.
Remco Arts
Promega Account manager provided us some ideas within the Promega inventory to use our project for feedback mechanisms.
Duddy Oyib
Promega Account manager provided further info about improving our feedback mechanism and extraction of functional receptors.
Communications and Assistance
Mariette Wennekers
Coordinator Marketing and Communications, Maastricht University.
Helped us find the strengths and weaknesses of the project concerning sponsoring and many other tasks. Also gave advice on how to improve the distribution of our focus.
Dieudonnée van de Willige
Storyteller & communications officer at Maastricht University, Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering
Helped us find the strengths and weaknesses of the project concerning sponsoring and many other tasks. Also gave advice on how to improve our story and communication of our project.
Els Feron
Events officer at Brightlands Chemelot.
Helped organizing Bake sale event at Brightlands Chemelot to increase awareness of our project.
Mary McCarthy
Senior Business Developer from Brightlands helping us brainstorm about the valorisation of our ideas.
PAS Festival
Our team gave a lecture at the Pleasure Art Science Festival in Maastricht to educate the general public on SynBio and its potential effects on society.
Renske van Raaphorst
Our iGem mentor assisted some of our general meetings and gave overall support when the team.
Roy Erkens
Biology lecturer at UM, at Maastricht Science Programme.
Gave us a presentation workshop to improve the team’s presentation skills.
Guido van den Broeck
Managing our UM crowdfunding platform.
Gave valuable advice on crowdfunding and fundraising.
Mark Churcher
Helping us out with the visualisation and drawing out of our logos, banners posters and flyers.
Ans Buck
Secretary at Maastricht Science Programme, who helped us with every enquiry we had related to finances and internal communication at Maastricht University
Crowdfunding
We want to thank everyone who donated to our crowdfunding. Without this money we wouldn’t have been able to complete our project!
Nelleke
Tom
Jan
T&V
Tina
Valie & David
Anneke
Ines
Marlies
Mary
Chris
Salvatore
Monica
Lucia
Maria Letizia
Simon
Judith
Jermain
Roy
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