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The people behind the project: Ruperto Carola features eight passionate undergrads from Heidelberg skilfully instructed by an equally spirited group of supervisors.

Thorge Dobbertin

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Luis Hauptmann

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Ali Ghanem

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Lisa Schmidt

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Liza Bobkova

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Andrés Machado

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Marie Wosny

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Benedict Wolf

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Leonhard Dreyer

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Veronika Chevyreva

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Thorge Dobbertin resembles his Norse namesake Thor in that he is pretty big, blonde and can spike bolts of lightning with his intelligence and passion for the project (note from this member: “guy sounds awesome, really would like to meet him”). He is a Bachelor’s student of Molecular Biotechnology, and currently working hard on his communication skills. Cell-cell communication, that is, which he is developing for our project. Struggling to keep a work-life-sleep balance as well as his balance on the badminton , sepak takraw, squash, tennis or volleyball court (yes, he enjoys doing sports). Afterwards, he likes to relax with a plethora of his favorite anime and manga series. His special skills include focusing so hard that he forgets to eat or drink for long stretches of time, which he then compensates with his python-like ability to engulf half his weight in one sitting. If he were a piece of lab equipment, he would be a laptop, versatile in many applications.

Luis Hauptmann, is the leader of our team (german people: “I see what you did there”), is studying Molecular Biotechnology Bachelor’s at the Ruperto-Carola University of Heidelberg. He is the one for playing the strings of evolution, using techniques such as DNA shuffling and substrate walking. Being of a fervent yet solid personality, he can best be characterized as the Bunsen burner with a never extinguishing flame.

A as in awesome stands for Ali Ghanem, our supervisor. He studied pharmacy in Damascus prior to coming to Germany where he got his PhD at Heidelberg university. He now works as a postdoc at BioQuant in Heidelberg where he also looks after the team. Apart from always keeping the team’s spirit high he has the ability to sense who is in the lab and who’s slacking off. In his last life he is believed to have been a big Petri dish housing all the yeast in the world.

Julia Braun is our language expert from Frankfurt. She realized the fascination of natural sciences only after she finished school, but then couldn’t resist it and started to study molecular biotechnologies at Heidelberg. Her desire for knowledge directed her towards iGEM. When not working in the lab, Julia balances her love for music with her newly arisen hobbies mountain climbing and hiking. Since her chimes never get out of time, she would be a timer in the lab.

Lisa Schmidt is doing her Bachelor’s in Biochemistry in Heidelberg. For our project she is occupied with the validation of the yeast mating signaling receptor as well as cell-cell communication pathways. When she is not working hard in the lab, she is working hard to improve her classical guitar skills. With her warm heart and the rhythm flowing through her, Lisa would definitely fit in well as a shaker in the lab.

Veronika Chevyreva is a PhD candidate at the institute of pharmacy and molecular biotechnology at the University of Heidelberg and one supervisor of the team. She was born in Russia and raised in New Zealand. Her advice is invaluable with the experimental design and she provides us extraordinary help in every situation. Veronika is magical, non-disposable lab glove, gently handling us and guiding the team in the right direction.

Liza Bobkova, human made of stars and unofficial team astronaut. Powered by coffee and with the help of a human network bigger than a termite’s, she’s great at coordinating the team’s efforts and finding solutions to keep our project going. She suffers from a rare condition called Physicophilia, meaning despite being an ace in biology, she’s fascinated by everything involving physics with severe, side effects including nerdiness, fixation on far-fetched scientific theories and P&P addiction. She’s currently considering the housing market in Enceladus.

Andrés Machado is an aspiring physicist just finished his bachelor thesis besides iGEM. He is carbon teaching silicon how to solve problems and infer the future. This biological robot joined our team to get our computational part straight on track. His tremendous enthusiasm for the world of synthetic biology is always included. One can feel his genuine love for living beings. Andres is constantly reflecting on substantial benefits of biological and modelling systems alike. Andrés doesn’t need to be compared to any lab equipment since his cells already are astonishing factories producing metabolites & lab results alike.

Marie Wosny is our motivator. The one person who can produce an image of a serious and responsible person in a believable manner. Looking at Marie you know that she has everything under control, be it studying for a demanding exam, preparing an especially complicated lab experiment, baking cookies or training people in the gym. And yes, she does find time for everything from iGEM and her Master’s studies Molecular Biosciences Major Cancer to keeping up with her hobbies (might be a superpower of some sort). In the iGEM team she is especially active in the wet lab part, as well as keeping track on our funding applications and social media accounts. In the lab she would resemble a lab scale which is perfectly balanced.

Benedict Wolf, “Bene”, is a very enthusiastic molecular biotechnology student. Rarely you would encounter a person with as many hobbies and as much perfectionism at each. Among us he is famous for being the official lab photographer and a staunch MacBook enthusiast! He is very practical, reliable, and positively inclined, making him popular with the supervisors. If he would spend a life as a lab material, he would be parafilm; useful in many situations!

Leonhard Dreyer, known as “Hardy”, is our med student and a highly attentive, responsible and outstanding member. He has a good command of leadership and his engagement is limitless. He has a quick wit to learn things well while being active in the lab, contributing to human practice and enriching our team with motivation and new promising project ideas. Hardy stays realistic by doing the impossible, he belongs to the 1 % of twisty people who can bend and flex their fingers in all sorts of cringe-worthy directions. If Hardy would belong to the laboratory inventory, he would definitely be a vintage microscope reflecting his hard-working focus and his cool moped rides.