Advisors

Yara Reis

Yara Reis

Yara comes from Portugal where she studied Biochemistry. During her Master thesis in Lisbon, she got the opportunity to visit Heidelberg and decided to stay for her PhD. She is at Prof. Eils research group working on Systems Biology applied to Programmed Cell death in cancer cells. She will support the Heidelberg team in the experimental work and with good mood!

E-Mail: y.reis ät dkfz.de ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Daniela Richter

Daniela Richter

Daniela Richter is a PhD student from DKFZ working in the group of Theoretical Bioinformatics at Bioquant. She studied Molecular Life Science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg acquiring her master degree in the field of Theoretical Chemistry in 2006. Before coming to Heidelberg she spend half a year working in the Research and Development Department at Qiagen. In her PhD, Daniela is interested in the role of endosomal trafficking in cellular life- and death- decisions. Daniela contributes to the iGem-team as a lab supervisor as well as assisting with graphic design and presentation issues.

E-Mail: d.richter ät dkfz.de

Undergraduates

Michael Bartoschek

Michael Bartoschek

Michael is a bachelor student of Molecular Biotechnology at the Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg. He has recently finished the 4th semester. He likes the idea of synthetic Biology and iGEM. He is looking forward on working with a highly motivated, young team and learning much about arrangeing own scientific projects.

E-Mail: michael ät bartoschek.org

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Simon Haas

Simon Haas

Simon is a Bachelor student in Molecular Cell Biology at the University of Heidelberg in the 4th semester. During several smaller internships at institutions like the BZH, ZMBH, HIP, ZI he gained experience in experimental molecular and cellular biology and biochemistry. He is fascinated by the idea of creating functional synthetic systems in biology. Besides synthetic biology Simon is highly interested in the fields of gene therapy and neuroscience. He will continue his studies in Biochemistry at the Imperial College London next semester.

E-Mail: simon.haas ät stud.uni-heidelberg.de _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Tim Heinemann

Tim Heinemann

Tim started his scientific career at the Humboldt University Berlin with the Bachelor program of Theoretical Biophysics. Inspired by the beautiful cultural and academic atmosphere of Germany's capital he first encountered the field of Theoretical Biology. After three years he wrote his thesis in multivariate statistical analysis at the department of physics at the Free University Berlin. Currently he completes the second semester of his studies of Systems Biology within the Master's program Molecular Biosciences at the University of Heidelberg. During this work he realized that having knowledge in both the theoretical and practical field is essential to model biological systems. For example to make a good theoretical model it is necessary to be aware of the approximate character of the experiment and to evaluate the collected data. According to him this combination of the theoretical and the experimental approach is impressively realized with the iGEM idea. He is grateful to be part of this year's team and to have a nice summer with the students.

E-Mail: t.heinemann ät stud.uni-heidelberg.de

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Corinna Hiller

Corinna Hiller

Corinna has finished her bachelor thesis about experimental and computer-associated search for p53 inhibiting agents with subsequent crystallography at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) as a student of Molecular Biotechnology. As one of 30 other students she will start with the master of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Heidelberg in October. The iGEM competition demonstrates a unique opportunity to organize a scientific project and to meet a young inspirational team of students.

E-Mail: corinna.hiller ät arcor.de _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Nao Iwamoto

Nao Iwamoto

Nao is a Master student of Cancer Biology at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). During his Bachelor's program in Theoretical Biophysics at the Humboldt University to Berlin he gained his strong enthusiasm towards Systems Biology. Before joining the iGEM team Heidelberg '09 he worked as a student research assistant in the lab of Dr. Ursula Klingmüller (Systems Biology of Signal Transduction) at the DKFZ. Being a member of the iGEM team Heidelberg '09 he is looking forward to contributing to the exciting project on the theoretical side and is glad to share a wonderful summer with the students.

E-Mail: n.iwamoto ät dkfz-heidelberg.de _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Stephen Krämer

Stephen Krämer

Stephen has just finished his 4th semester as a student of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Heidelberg. He believes that biology can contribute to solutions to major challenges of the 21st century like the growing water and food shortage in many regions of the world. But in his opinion modern biology will only unfold its full potential if it will be based on a systematic foundation. This is the reason why he is fascinated by the ideas of synthetic biology.

E-mail: kraemer ät uni-hd.de _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Hannah Meyer

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Douaa Mugahid

Douaa Mugahid

Biology for a better life is what Douaa believes in. Coming from a country where the availability of food and better health care is always an issue for the masses, she believes that as a biologist who can use science for the help of better, cheaper industrial/agricultural/medical use she has a lot to give to her own country and the masses at large. For those reasons Douaa studies Biotechnology as an undergraduate, but being faced with the immense costs that people are faced with in that industry in general made her want to think of how to bring them down. In silico optimization of biological processes away from the workbench in the lab seemed like the best idea, which is why she is currently doing a masters in Systems Biology at Heidelberg University. Being part of the iGEM team this year makes her know that as biologists there is so much we can do that is creative, useful and eventually cost effective and widely available for all researchers all over the world.

E-Mail: douaa.mugahid ät gmail.com _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Anne Rademacher

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Hannah Uckelmann

Hannah Uckelmann

Hannah is a student in the second semester of the Molecular Biosciences Masters Program with the major Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Heidelberg. She completed her bachelors degree in biochemistry at the Florida A&M University in the states. She has experience in obesity and cancer research and hopes to be able to contribute greatly to the wet lab work in this years iGEM project. She is excited to work on this fascinating project with a great group of students!

E-Mail: hannahuckelmann ät yahoo.com ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Lars Velten

Lars Velten

After finishing high school, Lars spent a year volunteering in Development Cooperation, selling solar power to Massai people in northern Tanzania. Perceiving plants as the better solar cell, and also interested in everything else (but urchins), he turned to study Molecular and Cellular Biology at Heidelberg U, where he has now finished his 4th semeseter. He collected some wetlab experience during an internship with Kartsten Weis' lab at UC Berkeley, where he worked on a project studying proteome turnover. He is looking foward to working in synthetic biology.

E-Mail: velten ät stud.uni-heidelberg.de ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Bingqing Zhao

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Chenchen Zhu

Chenchen Zhu

At present, Chenchen is a bachelor student of Molecular Biotechnology. He had studied Informatics in China for one year. After half-year learning of German in Berlin, he moved to Heidelberg and furthered his study in Molecular Biotechnology. He will continue with the Bioscience master Program, major in infectious disease this October, as his main interest is in microbiology, especially in the research of Hepatitis B Virus. As a member of the iGEM team Heidelberg, he will try to integrate his theoretical and experimental skills both in Biology and Informatics in the next few months.

E-Mail: jimmyzcc ät googlemail.com