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Revision as of 16:28, 16 September 2015
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Team
This year, our team consists of 13 students who are dedicating their summer to work on the iGEM project. The numerous late night meetings organised from the beginning of the year 2015 were the perfect opportunity to create an optimal atmosphere to discuss the possible iGEM projects and to boost the team spirit. The team consist of students from 5 different faculties with different backgrounds, perspectives, nationalities and languages. The diversity of the team gives us strength and widens our horizons. We are all bounded by our enthusiasm for science and research and each of us possesses the courage to face big challenges. Additionally, we will be supported by previous iGEM’mers and employees from all levels of the KU Leuven University. The previous KU Leuven teams have set high standards to benchmark ourselves against. We will do our best to carry on this trend in the 2015 iGEM competition!
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Astrid
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Eline
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Frederik
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Ines
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Jasper
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Laetitia
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2015/6/61/KU_Leuven_Astrid_OK.jpg)
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![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2015/7/77/KU_Leuven_Jasper_OK.jpg)
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2015/f/fb/KU_Leuven_Laetitia_OK.jpg)
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2015/6/68/KU_Leuven_Laura_OK.jpg)
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2015/a/ac/KU_Leuven_Laurens_OK.jpg)
![](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2015/b/b3/KU_Leuven_Leen_OK.jpg)
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Our busy bee
Keep calm and build a pattern
The business tycoon
Spam, spam, spam!
Matlab is always on my side
Let the bacteria grow!
Our beautiful sales lady
Let's photoshop everything
The answer to everything is: try Google
Wants lots and lots of data
The center of everything
Before one can transform bacteria, one must first transform himself
First on the screen, now in real life
Astrid does many things, she started as a bookworm who shaped our plasmid, worked in the lab, made plans for the symposium and visited schools to explain children about synthetic biology.
Eline started working on gaining sponsors for our project. Once we had our funding she made the collaboration with Toulouse possible by creating a diffiusion model in COMSOL. In the end she helped with the final touches on our wiki.
Frederik background in economics made him the perfect guy to acquire sponsors for our project. He created and spread the survey. Every iGEM project needs applications, Frederik explored several options and wrote a report about it.
Ines discovered the world of social media to inform people about our project. When she isn't spamming people she can be found in the lab or behind her books.
Jasper is the brains behind our internal model. Apart from modeling he found time to invent, create and adjust our card game.
Laetitia delegated the lab work, planned frequent meetings, wrote new protocols and filled in our safety form. Additionally she provided general texts for the wiki.
Convincing people and companies to invest in our project became Laura's personal challenge, this included making the sponsor brochure and folder. Beside you can also find her in the lab.
Laurens started as our personal Photoshop hero who somehow still found time to 'GO TO THE LAB'. So he became our part-time Photoshop hero and part-time lab buddy.
Moritz was the first of our model team to finish his colonial model. He discovered the wiki when he put his findings on-line. This allowed him to write most of our human practices pages.
Ovia had the difficult task to ensure communication within the team. When she isn't working in the lab she provides us with beautiful images for the stickers and our wiki.
Thomas is our hybrid model specialist. He was the connection between lab and modeling so all the necessary information was passed trough.
In the beginning Vincent was the designated bookworm who browsed trough literature at full speed. When enough information was gathered he used this knowledge in the lab.
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Laura
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Laurens
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Leen
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Moritz
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Ovia
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Thomas
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Vincent
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Mentors and Advisors
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From the very beginning of our project, Johan has always been ready and willing to help us when problems arise. He provided us with work space in the lab and is always ready to share his scientific expertise.
We couldn’t imagine a better supervisor! Be it a scientific question or a silly doubt, an advice or some administration, a hot cup of coffee or just handy tips, she will always know what to do.
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Oscar is our knock-out specialist. He helped us with the P1 phage transduction and showed how to confirm our double knock-out. We can always ask him questions during our experiments.
Yves is always willing to provide us with his crystal violet and electrocompetent cells. Above all he is interested in our project and likes to share advice.
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Iris is always there to help us ordering products, searching for sponsors and giving safety advice. She will give us handy hints wrapped up in funny stories.
Veerle helped us to choose the right topic. She also guided the previous KU Leuven iGEM team and is happy to pass on her experience by giving practical advice on how to prepare for the Giant Jamboree.
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We would like to extend our gratitude to our advisors who have been very helpful during various stages of our project. We thank the ex-iGEMmers, the PhD students, professors and laboratory assistants, who participated in our pizza meetings and opening event, for giving their opinion. A special thank to our friends and significant others for their support and help during the opening event.
Contact
Address: Celestijnenlaan 200G room 00.08 - 3001 Heverlee
Telephone: +32(0)16 32 73 19
Email: igem@chem.kuleuven.be