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At the very beginning of the development of our project the iGEM Team talked to Gabriele Nübel and Dr. Murat Sünbül, both members of the group of professor Jäschke. Professor Jäschke is dean of the faculty for biosciences and his research is focused on RNA research.

We talked about our idea to use aptamers for the detection of small molecules by aptamers. Murat was particularly interested in the software we developed to predict aptamers. He would use it to predict aptamers for his research on aptamers. We learned from the meeting that aptamers are of great interest and that if we are able to establish the software and verify it there will be a whole aptamer community that would be interested in using it.

As the Team started to plan and design the rape drug detection system we talked to Dr. Damiana Kastelic from DKFZ who used to teach forensics in Cambridge. She encouraged us to pursue our idea though she suggested to focus on the read out. She told us that for forensics it is extremely important to have an extremely robust assay as it may decide about people’s fate. Furthermore her advice to us was to use may model substances to test our system. She said it would be interesting to see if a food you buy is not polluted with for example antibiotics.