Team:Ruperto Carola/Sponsors

Our sponsors

Klaus Tschira Stiftung

In 1995, Klaus Tschira, physicist and co-founder of the software company SAP, founded the Klaus Tschira Stiftung (KTS). With the intention to place strong emphasis on natural sciences in the society, the commitment of the KTS ranges from kindergarten to schools, universities and research institutions all over Germany. The support is differentiated in three main fields: natural sciences for children and young people, research and science communication. The foundation is located at the Villa Bosch in Heidelberg, the former residence of Nobel Prize laureate for chemistry Carl Bosch.

Promega

Promega embraces the perspective that shared knowledge across global networks help scientists fulfill their potential. By supporting the iGEM competition, Promega gives young investigators the opportunity to expand their knowledge, as well as to share their findings with society and other scientists globally. This confidence in young students enables them to follow up their own ideas and making previously improbable scenario´s possible. Their smart and easy-to-use products are helping to get comfortable with simple reporter assays, as well as their high quality enzymes.

Zymo Research

Since its inception in 1994, Zymo Research has been proudly serving the scientific community by providing innovative, reliable, and high quality research tools at affordable prices. Their vision of "The Beauty of Science is to Make Things Simple" is now truer than ever. Zymo Research follows the foundation stones of their company, building on Innovation, Quality, and Customer Service.

Implen

Implen is a leading supplier for spectroscopy instruments and consumables for the non-destructive analysis of ultra low volume samples. The company focuses on biological, chemical, and pharmaceutical laboratories in industry and research. Implen has a strong focus on the customer taking pride in providing quality products and a high level of customer service to achieve total customer satisfaction. Implen is committed to developing leading edge equipment and consumables for spectroscopy applications paying special attention on continued customer satisfaction by providing technically superior, high quality, and easy-to-use products.

Integrated DNA Technologies

Integrated DNA Technologies Inc. is the world's largest supplier of custom nucleic acids, serving the areas of academic research, biotechnology, clinical diagnostics, and pharmaceutical development. IDT sponsored gblocks which we need for gene construction and modification.

Fryka

The FRYKA-Kältetechnik family company was founded in 1967 in Esslingen, Germany and has become one of the most sought-after experts on the subject of cooling and freezing of gases, liquids and solids in Germany. Fryka provided us with -80 °C Lab Freezer.

Geneious

Geneious is a DNA, RNA and protein sequence alignment, assembly and analysis software platform, integrating bioinformatic and molecular biology tools into a simple interface. Geneious provides us their software which helped us design primers and plan our cloning.

New England Biolabs

Founded in the mid-1970s as a collective of scientists committed to developing innovative products for the life sciences industry, NEB is now a recognized world leader in the discovery, development and commercialization of recombinant and native enzymes for genomic research. Created "by scientists for scientists", NEB is renowned for consistently providing exceptional product quality and unsurpassed technical support.

analytikjena

Our high performance analysis instruments are used whenever precision and reliability are required. Whether it is water analysis, environmental monitoring, health care, or quality control, our devices guarantee that strict standards have been maintained. We meet the individual needs of our customers and their fields of application with a range of products spanning numerous technologies. In addition, in-depth industry knowledge is used to shape the development of the products and technology of tomorrow.

ACADEMIC Sponsoring

BioQuant

The BioQuant, the Center for “Quantitative Analysis of Molecular and Cellular Biosystems” at Heidelberg University was established in 2007 as an interdisciplinary University research center that is solely dedicated to research and training in systems biology. BioQuants’s objective is to function as a platform for the development and constant refinement of mathematical models of complex biological systems as well as the swift validation of scientific hypotheses via experimental data. Currently, up to 40 University and non-University research groups (DKFZ, EMBL, the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS, formerly the European Media Lab), and the MPI for Medical Research) are affiliated with BioQuant. These research groups are instrumental in implementing numerous national and international systems biology funding initiatives.

University of Heidelberg

Heidelberg University, founded in 1386, is Germany’s oldest university and one of the strongest research institutions in Europe. The successes in both rounds of the Excellence Initiative and in international rankings prove its leading role in the scientific community. Heidelberg University is a comprehensive university with the full spectrum of subjects including medicine. It aims to strengthen the individual disciplines, to further interdisciplinary cooperation and to make research results usable for society and industry. Heidelberg also draws its strength from its cooperation with local non-university research institutions and is tied into a worldwide network of research and teaching collaborations.