Team:Stuttgart/Team
Team
Who we are and what we did
Dimitri Graf | 27
Team Algae, public relations
What do you like about iGEM?
Building your project from the bottom up. Finding partners helping you to realize your ideas.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
It teached me what Teamwork really means. And which values communication in a group project have.
Interests and Hobbies
sport, music, cooking
Building your project from the bottom up. Finding partners helping you to realize your ideas.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
It teached me what Teamwork really means. And which values communication in a group project have.
Interests and Hobbies
sport, music, cooking
Hannah Berreth | 22
Team Algae
What do you like about iGEM?
realizing your own project as a team.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
What it means to coordinate a project within a large team and to stay motivated if your algae grow too slow.
Interests and Hobbies
swimming, dancing
realizing your own project as a team.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
What it means to coordinate a project within a large team and to stay motivated if your algae grow too slow.
Interests and Hobbies
swimming, dancing
Jan Müller | 23
Team Vibrio
What do you like about iGEM?
iGEM gives you insights about your current skill set and gives you the opportunity to improve yourself and develop new skills.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Respect Murphy's law.
Interests and Hobbies
Bioinformatics/Data Science; Sports (especially Football) and cooking
iGEM gives you insights about your current skill set and gives you the opportunity to improve yourself and develop new skills.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Respect Murphy's law.
Interests and Hobbies
Bioinformatics/Data Science; Sports (especially Football) and cooking
Jan Seeger | 22
Team Vibrio, qPCR
What do you like about iGEM?
Work on your own project, Teamwork.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Planning experiments on my own, project management and keep an overview over different topics.
Interests and Hobbies
Sport
Work on your own project, Teamwork.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Planning experiments on my own, project management and keep an overview over different topics.
Interests and Hobbies
Sport
Katharina Hofer | 26
Team Vibrio, qPCR
What do you like about iGEM?
iGEM gives me the opportunity to further develop skills in many areas and allows me to work with one of my best friends!
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Effective teamwork is a challenge, that is both simple and difficult at the same time. Interests and Hobbies
Traveling, horseback riding, DIY and crafting
iGEM gives me the opportunity to further develop skills in many areas and allows me to work with one of my best friends!
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Effective teamwork is a challenge, that is both simple and difficult at the same time. Interests and Hobbies
Traveling, horseback riding, DIY and crafting
Sini Münßinger | 26
Team Vibrio, qPCR, sponsoring
What do you like about iGEM?
The opportunity to experience all sides of a scientific project and to learn many lessons - for the project and ones own life.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Coordination and planning in a team; openness and the courage to do so; staying power until the goal has been reached.
Interests and Hobbies
Our children and family; craftsmanship in all dimensions; realisation of side projects; Foodsharing and the reasonable use of everything.
The opportunity to experience all sides of a scientific project and to learn many lessons - for the project and ones own life.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Coordination and planning in a team; openness and the courage to do so; staying power until the goal has been reached.
Interests and Hobbies
Our children and family; craftsmanship in all dimensions; realisation of side projects; Foodsharing and the reasonable use of everything.
Katharina Kocher | 22
Team Vibrio
What do you like about iGEM?
The possibility to develop and realize something together as a team.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Never forget the controls in an experiment.
Interests and Hobbies
Dancing.
The possibility to develop and realize something together as a team.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Never forget the controls in an experiment.
Interests and Hobbies
Dancing.
Marvin Bubeck | 24
Team Algae
What do you like about iGEM?
Project building from scratch, independend work
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Making plans ahead and that fundraising is not fun.
Interests and Hobbies
cooking, growing vegetables, gaming
Project building from scratch, independend work
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Making plans ahead and that fundraising is not fun.
Interests and Hobbies
cooking, growing vegetables, gaming
Sabrina Holl | 24
Team Algae
What do you like about iGEM?
teamwork, project-planing, working on an own project
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Self-organization, communication is very important in a team.
Interests and Hobbies
reading, soccer
teamwork, project-planing, working on an own project
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Self-organization, communication is very important in a team.
Interests and Hobbies
reading, soccer
Jannis Stadager | 23
Team Algae, team leader
What do you like about iGEM?
Working on an own project outside of university. The diversity in tasks and independent thinking.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Thinking outside of the box, dealing with teamdynamics and group diversity
Interests and Hobbies
Surfing, snowboarding, diving and gaming.
Working on an own project outside of university. The diversity in tasks and independent thinking.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Thinking outside of the box, dealing with teamdynamics and group diversity
Interests and Hobbies
Surfing, snowboarding, diving and gaming.
Benedikt Schober | 22
Team Vibrio
What do you like about iGEM?
iGEM imparts diverse core competencies and skills in a wide variety of areas, including outside the lab such as public relations, design, sponsoring, presentation skills and most importantly how to sell your idea and yourself
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Staying motivated even after repeated failure in order to learn from your mistakes. Labelling is not a bad idea, especially when working in a big team.
Interests and Hobbies
playing in a band, sports in all its forms (track & field, soccer, fitness), gaming
iGEM imparts diverse core competencies and skills in a wide variety of areas, including outside the lab such as public relations, design, sponsoring, presentation skills and most importantly how to sell your idea and yourself
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Staying motivated even after repeated failure in order to learn from your mistakes. Labelling is not a bad idea, especially when working in a big team.
Interests and Hobbies
playing in a band, sports in all its forms (track & field, soccer, fitness), gaming
Verena Haug | 22
Team Algae, head of finances
What do you like about iGEM?
Creation and realization of a project based on one’s own ideas within a team
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Bringing together teamwork and planning experiments on our own.
Interests and Hobbies
Horseback riding, dancing
Creation and realization of a project based on one’s own ideas within a team
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Bringing together teamwork and planning experiments on our own.
Interests and Hobbies
Horseback riding, dancing
Corinna Kersten | 25
Team Algae
What do you like about iGEM?
developing own ideas, gathering of many young students worldwide.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
solving problems on my own, planning experiments.
Interests and Hobbies
climbing, trampolining.
developing own ideas, gathering of many young students worldwide.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
solving problems on my own, planning experiments.
Interests and Hobbies
climbing, trampolining.
Konrad Koch | 32
Team Wiki
What do you like about iGEM?
Collaborating in and contributing in an interesting field.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
That old knowledge can become usefull again
Interests and Hobbies
Work and family
Collaborating in and contributing in an interesting field.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
That old knowledge can become usefull again
Interests and Hobbies
Work and family
Advisors
Jan Notheisen | 23
Advisor
What do you like about iGEM?
Scientific discussions, realizing new ideas.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Teamwork, self-organization, working independently
Interests and Hobbies
Sport, motorcycling, gardening
Scientific discussions, realizing new ideas.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Teamwork, self-organization, working independently
Interests and Hobbies
Sport, motorcycling, gardening
Philip Horz | 25
Advisor
What do you like about iGEM?
Planing and realizing new projects. Discussions about science with peaople all around the world.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Synthetic biology is a powerful tool for improving and understanding the biology currently known
Planing and realizing new projects. Discussions about science with peaople all around the world.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Synthetic biology is a powerful tool for improving and understanding the biology currently known
Luca Schelle | 27
Advisor
What do you like about iGEM?
Improving things nature can`t do (yet)
What did iGEM teach you for life?
planning and creating projects from scratch as a team
Improving things nature can`t do (yet)
What did iGEM teach you for life?
planning and creating projects from scratch as a team
Nadine Kübler | 26
Advisor
What do you like about iGEM?
Organizing & managing a project, finding solutions for current issues with the help of synthetic biology.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
handling of trouble shooting, project management, possibilites of synthetic biology/science
Organizing & managing a project, finding solutions for current issues with the help of synthetic biology.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
handling of trouble shooting, project management, possibilites of synthetic biology/science
Liv Paul | 26
Advisor
What do you like about iGEM?
Realizing your ideas, planning a new project, exchange of experience
What did iGEM teach you for life?
solving problems as a team
Realizing your ideas, planning a new project, exchange of experience
What did iGEM teach you for life?
solving problems as a team
Lars Höing | 23
Advisor
What do you like about iGEM?
Collaborating in and contributing to the field of synthetic biology.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Planning and coordinating projects, self-organization
Interests and Hobbies
Music, Videogames. Watching and doing sports
Collaborating in and contributing to the field of synthetic biology.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
Planning and coordinating projects, self-organization
Interests and Hobbies
Music, Videogames. Watching and doing sports
Instructors
Martin Ziegler | 28
Instructor
What do you like about iGEM?
iGEM enables students to work scientifically on a synthetic biology project of their choice, following their interests and developing new skills in the process.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
A team is more than the sum of its parts!
Interests and Hobbies
Books, Movies, Video Games, Music, Food and of course: Science!
iGEM enables students to work scientifically on a synthetic biology project of their choice, following their interests and developing new skills in the process.
What did iGEM teach you for life?
A team is more than the sum of its parts!
Interests and Hobbies
Books, Movies, Video Games, Music, Food and of course: Science!
Erik Eppinger
Instructor
What do you like about iGEM?
IGEM enables students to explore the fields of synthetic biology and biotechnology by conceiving and conducting a scientific project.
IGEM enables students to explore the fields of synthetic biology and biotechnology by conceiving and conducting a scientific project.
Principal Investigators (PIS)
Martin Siemann-Herzberg
PD Dr. rer. nat. Martin Siemann-Herzberg is deputy director and
academic teacher at the Institute of Biochemical Engineering at
the University of Stuttgart.
His research focuses on Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology with regard to its use for technical purposes. Together with former iGEM participants he spearheaded the idea to start the first iGEM Team at the University of Stuttgart.
He always believed in our idea, stayed positive and motivating us in all kinds of situations during the project. He also provided massive support with technical and organizational problems.
We would like to thank you for all your support.
His research focuses on Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology with regard to its use for technical purposes. Together with former iGEM participants he spearheaded the idea to start the first iGEM Team at the University of Stuttgart.
He always believed in our idea, stayed positive and motivating us in all kinds of situations during the project. He also provided massive support with technical and organizational problems.
We would like to thank you for all your support.
Björn Voß
We are very happy to call him our Secondary PI and thankful for
the support of our team! Besides his research and academic
teaching position at the Institute of Biochemical Engineering at
the University of Stuttgart is also member of Faculty of 1000
(F1000), Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics & Computational
Biology. His work focuses on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics
and RNA Biology. His topics of intrest are RNA-based Regulation,
Analysis of "Direct Duplex Detection" Data, Interactive Graph
Visualisation in Galaxy, Algorithms for RNA Structure Analysis and
the IBVT Galaxy Server.