We would like to thank all our sponsors for their generous financial but also material support and helpful guidance. Thanks to their help, we were able to develop ALiVE. Their sponsorship allowed us to make the most out of the iGEM competition and made it possible to attend the Giant Jamboree. We are honored to name these institutions and companies our sponsors.
Academic Sponsors and Institutions
The Technical University of Munich is one of Europe's leading universities and is known worldwide for its excellence in education and research. With a strong focus on promoting new ideas and innovation, the TUM offers their students an impressive network of industrial and academic partners around the world, both during their studies and after graduation. Their accomplishments in teaching and research regularly award them top spots in national and international rankings.
Founded in 1472, the LMU has since its beginnings been committed to offering their students outstanding education and promoting the discovery of innovative theories. The University is committed to the highest international standards of excellence in research and teaching. By supporting their students and researchers in their scientific endeavors, the LMU upholds this tradition to this date, which places them as one of the top universities in Europe and gives them the recognition as a University of Excellence in Germany.
As German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München pursues the goal of developing personalized medical approaches for the prevention and therapy of major common diseases such as diabetes mellitus, allergies and lung diseases. To achieve this, it investigates the interaction of genetics, environmental factors and lifestyle.
Lehre@LMU is a university-wide program that fosters the education of LMU students by promoting scientific research and innovative ways of teaching. Through Lehre@LMU, students can learn more about the academic world thanks to research-focused courses, special faculty side-projects and diverse mentoring and tutoring programs. Students' own ideas and projects are also supported financially and logistically by an interdisciplinary network of students and experts.
The research in the Department of Zoology at TUM aims at a mechanistic understanding of animal behavior, developmental biology and ecology and biodiversity. With a broad methodological spectrum ranging from genotyping and electrophysiology to field studies and modeling, they work on topics ranging from neuronal processing in identified circuits of the midbrain (AG Luksch) to biocenology and biodiversity of aquatic and terrestrial fauna (AG Kühn).
The Chair I for Technical Chemistry is part of the Department of Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich and focuses on problems in technical chemistry and chemical process engineering. Teaching and research of the chair concentrate on the interfaces between natural and engineering sciences. The research work is methodically oriented along the process chain "particle design, reactor design, process design".
The “Bund der Freunde der TUM” (Friends of TUM) supports the Technical University of Munich in science, research and teaching – especially concerning the promotion of young academics. Even small amounts of money can make a difference in research projects, in student activities or help to take part in conferences at home and abroad. As a non-profit organization, this is where the “Bund der Freunde der TUM” (Friends of TUM) comes into play. The “Bund der Freunde” bore some of our travelling costs.
This Research Training Group brings together junior researchers from biology, chemistry and physics, who work in the emerging field of Synthetic Biology. It provides an innovative, integrated and international PhD training program. Funded by the DFG, the Research Training Group is a joint initiative by leading scientists from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich as well as from the Technical University Munich (TUM) and the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry.
The interdisciplinary integration of all life sciences disciplines at the Weihenstephan campus enables research into the entire life cycle of food and raw materials. Researchers at Weihenstephan examine the value chain from genetic and biological building blocks through production and processing to consumption. In addition, WZW builds a close network of research disciplines and supports new ideas like ALiVE.
The Faculty of Physics consists of three departments and various central institutions. Physics at TUM has been always characterized by its interaction and association with other disciplines. It cooperates with partner and interdisciplinary research institutions and participates in several large-scale projects, supports collegiate research groups like iGEM Munich.
ProLehre is the department for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the Technische Universität München. They focus on supporting staff and students in the further development of their teaching and learning skills, but also improving of soft skills like presenting and working in team. Workshops and consultations individually adapted by ProLehre fostered the efficiency and professionalism of our team and equipped us with the important material.
Founded in 1993, the Peter und Traudl Engelhorn-Stiftung supports young scientists in the field of life sciences. The aim of this foundation is to give the opportunity of completely focusing on the scientific research to some gifted scientists. This scholarship can also be a support for the participation at conferences or symposiums in the field of life science. The Peter und Traudl Engelhorn-Stiftung supported us with a financial aid.
Industrial Sponsors
Abcam is a producer, distributor and seller of protein research tools. Besides antibodies, abcam supplies antibody related products such as immunoassays, peptides, proteins and protein detection products and a portfolio of non-antibody related products. We thank abcam for providing us three antibodies.
Analytik Jena is specialized on the production of analytic and bioanalytic measurement-equipments. With their state-of-the-art analysis, Analytik Jena supports their customers in both industry and research to improve products and to achieve scientific excellence. Analytik Jena supported us with some kits.
BioM has been the network organisation of the biotechnology sector in Munich and Bavaria since 1997 and acts on behalf of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. Around 270 biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies are active in the Munich area. The core competence of the region is the development of innovative therapeutics and diagnostics, especially for personalized medicine. BioM accompanies the innovation process by developing and providing targeted measures and individually adaptable instruments.
Brand is a known life science company for different labor equipment in the field of for example liquid handling, life science consumables and pipetting robots. Brand develops, produces and supplies their products for the usage in academic and industrial research laboratories. Brand provided our team pipets, a handy stepper and many other consumables.
Eppendorf is a leading life science company which develops, produces and supplies devices for the application in laboratories like instruments, consumables, and services for liquid-, sample-, and cell handling. Eppendorf products are used in academic and industrial research laboratories, e.g. in companies in the pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical and food industries. Eppendorf provided our team with a broad range of consumables for our daily lab work.
Eurofins Genomics is an international provider of genomic services. With their proprietary technologies and protocols, they offer high quality next generation sequencing, gene synthesis, DNA oligos, RNA oligos and many other solutions all-around genomics. A comprehensive client support and an extensive portfolio makes Eurofins Genomics a strong partner for both research and industrial fields. Their overnight sequencing and oligo synthesis services were a great help for our project.
Biomatters was founded in 2003 with a mission to create bioinformatics solutions for the analysis, interpretation, and application of molecular sequence data. They specialize in creating powerful, integrated and visually appealing bioinformatics solutions, with a strong emphasis on ease of use and overall user experience. The opportunity to work with Geneious throughout our project was a great experience and helped us a lot in designing our experiments.
Integrated DNA Technologies is one of the largest manufacturers of oligonucleotides in the world, offering also solutions in genome editing, gene synthesis and sequencing. IDT is a reliable partner for oligo-synthesis and, thanks to its vast expertise and experience, delivers a high-quality product in record time. Many of our cloning and sequencing primers were synthesized by them and without their help, this project would not have been possible.
MathWorks is the world's leading developer and provider of engineering software for mathematical computation and model-based development for engineers and scientists. Founded in 1984, MathWorks actively supports local and professional communities and provides educational institutions with free software, tutorials and more.
New England Biolabs provides enzymes and a wide array of essential buffers, as well as solutions supporting genome editing, synthetic biology and NGS for life sciences applications to many labs around the world. As an industry leader, NEB has become one of the best suppliers for kits and enzymatic assays. We would like to thank them for their products, as their enzymes played a central part in our experiments and their kits and assays were important benchmarks.
Promega is an international provider of technical solutions for researchers worldwide. With a wide portfolio of over 3000 products covering genomics, cellular expression, and drug discovery. Promega is a strong partner for researchers in the field of life sciences. Promega's proprietary technologies also present unique and powerful solutions for research and the development of new ideas. It has a long history of supporting its customers with high-quality products, services and information. We thank Promega for their excellent kits, the plate reader and other reagents.
twist has created a revolutionary silicon-based DNA synthesis platform, that offers precision at a scale otherwise unavailable to our customers. They produce high-quality synthetic DNA. We thank twist for providing us 10 kb of gene fragments.
