Team:UNIK Copenhagen/Team

Meet the Team

Our team consists of 9 students from University of Copenhagen and CBS (Copenhagen Business School). This year the team is very cross-disciplinary and very multicultural. Scroll down the page and read about the individual team members, their background and what they have been working with at SpaceMoss. Touch the images to read about the persons. Please do also pay special notice to our supervisors, professors, contributors and sponsors whitout whom project SpaceMoss would never have happened.

Team Members

MOLECULAR
BIOLOGY

ADAM PETERSEN
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Studies a master degree at Center for Synthetic Biology and specializing in protein purification. At SpaceMoss Adam primarily works with the DNA, which is inserted into the moss

BIO
TECHNOLOGY

JONATHAN ARNESEN
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Studies a master degree at Center for Syntethic Biology with focus on plant biology. Jonathan is behind large parts of the work conducted in the manipulation of moss in SpaceMoss’ Green Lab.

ASTRO
PHYSICS

JOPHIEL WIIS
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Jophiel studies a masters degree in Astrophysics with a focus on Cosmology. At SpaceMoss, his focus is on Red Lab, working on experiments which simulate the conditions on Mars. He also works with outreach and film editing.

MOLECULAR
BIOMEDICINE

JONAS ELSBORG
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Studies a bachelor in Molecular Biomedicine. Jonas has experience with mammalian cells and NMR-spectroscopy. In SpaceMoss he primarily works in the GreenLab: doing transformations of moss and purification of plasmids in E. coli, for use in the transformation procedures.

PLANETARY
PHYSICS

CHRISTINA TOLDBO
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Studies a master degree in Astrophysics with focus on space travel and human exploration of the solar system. She is primarily working with outreach and web development, as well as designing experiments to test if the moss has obtained the wished ability.

GRAPHIC
DESIGN

BÁRÐUR FRÍI MIKLADAL
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Bárður is from the Faroe Islands. He studies and works with graphic design. Bárður is SpaceMoss' photographer and designer and he is working on a new logo for SpaceMoss as well as optimizing our poster for our presentation at MIT in Boston.

ORGANIZATIONAL
INNOVATION

DOMENIC MANGANELLI
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Dom has a bachelor degree in Economy, is from Boston, USA and studies Social Science at Copenhagen Business School. In SpaceMoss he works with webdesign as well as building the experiments that test our moss in Red Lab.

BIO
BUSINESS

AKHIL SASIDHARAN PILLAI
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Akhil is from India and holds a master degree in Industrial Biotechnology as well as one in Business Administration. At SpaceMoss Akhil has primarily worked with branding and funding as well as helping with the moss transformations in Green Lab.

BIO
PHYSICS

VICTORIA SOSNOVTSEVA
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Victoria is born in Russia and studies a bachelor degree which combines Biophysics and Astrophysics. Victoria has participated both in the moss transformations and the subsequent experiments testing the results in Red Lab.

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Supervisors

Cecilie is studying a master in Biology-Biotechnology. She has been an amazing help with the lab work and wiki design.

Cecilie Cetti Hansen

Josephine Schrøder is MSc in Biotechnology. Her advice has been invaluable with the experimental design and she made sure we had lab and office space. She also taught how to "handle" moss and propagation moss cultures.

Josephine Schrøder

Anna is an iGEM project organizer. She studies a PhD at University of Copenhagen Plant Science Center. She has helped us with the experimental design and given us protocols for PCR and purification of DNA.

Anna Holzwarth

Nanna is project coordinator at Center for Synthetic Biology, University of Copenhagen. She has been guiding us from the very start and provided extraordinary help with the outreach and funding parts of our project.

Nanna Heinz

Will has a MSc in Business Administration, & Bio-Entrepreneurship and was one of the key people involved in starting this years iGEM team. With his experience from participating in the 2013 iGEM competition and though his role as CEO of TychoBio his advice and guidance throughout the project have been invaluable.

Will Wright

Brian is a post doc. in Synthetic Biology. He is THE moss guru and a spare time space enthusiast. Find him on Twitter! @newbotany

Brian King

Kamil is a PhD-student at University of Copenhagen Plant Science Center. Brainstormer and idea generator, he has been giving amazing feedback and has been quick to jump in when we needed supervision during weekends (university formality).

Kamil Bąkowski

Associated Professors

Björn is our iGEM project leader. He is Associate Professor and a world expert in terpenoids. He has experience as an iGEM supervisor and advised the 2012/2013/2014 UNIK Copenhagen teams. He has also judged in the national iGEM jamboree in Lyon.

Björn Hamberger

Morten Bo Madsen is working in the UCPH Mars-group and is a participating scientist on NASA’s Curiosity rover-mission. He served as a scientific advisor on SpaceMoss, lending his expertise on everything related to Mars and the Martian environment. Through Morten, the Mars-group supplied us with our Mars-soil substitute, and gave us access to the Jens-Martin Mars-chamber.

Morten Bo Madsen

Henrik is an Associate Professor at PLEN. He specializes in sesquiterpenoids production in moss. He has provided excellent advice and calm support.

Henrik Toft Simonsen

Contributers

Asmus wrote his Master’s thesis on the Jens-Martin Mars-Chamber and guided the team in its use. Additionally, Asmus helped out with brainstorming experiments for Red Lab.

Asmus Koefoed

Christine works with design and she made our amazing logo.

Christine Fabricius

Hansol is Post doc. working in Synthetic Biology. He has helped us carry out the actual moss transformation and has helped come up with new ideas.

Hansol Bae

Johanne is the artist behind the SpaceMoss comic. SpaceMoss’ collaboration with Johanne has been invaluable in our outreach efforts. Johanne’s visual storytelling expertise and questioning nature forced us to think hard about how to make the project palatable to lay-people.

Johanne Holm

Helping iGEMS teams

DTU Biobuilders