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Our team

Julien Julien Romain Bast
Master's student, ETH Zürich
Might have sold his kidney to finance our project.
Gabriel Gabriel Cervera Arriaga
Master's student, ETH Zürich
Casually deadlifts two DW-86FL50 MCR -80°C freezers between experiments.
Kian Kian Bigović Villi
Master's student, ETH Zürich
Busy correcting his own report corrections.
Sasha Sasha Melkonyan
Reseach assistant, University of Zürich
Rumour has it he has implanted a neuralink to communicate with phages.
Noemie Noemie Allet
Master's student, ETH Zürich
Sourdough, lab management, plasmid maps? The only constant is that she does not disapoint.
Max Max Schmitt
Doctoral student, ETH Zürich
Best delegator in the west.
Phillip Phillip Nitsch
Master's student, ETH Zürich
Allegedly helped Julien sell his kidney.
Pau Pau Jorba Adolff
Master's student, ETH Zürich
His zen state puts even the most dedicated monks to shame. He claims it's just tea.
Jakob Jakob Wimmer
Master's student, ETH Zürich
Still thinks evolving RUBISCO would have been a better project.
Michael Michael Bohl
Master's student, ETH Zürich
If our results were as good as his muscle-ups, we would have solved cancer 6 months ago.
Gerald Prof. Gerald Schwank
Team supervisor
Principal investigator at Translational Genome Editing group, University of Zürich
Lukas Dr. Lukas Schmidheini
Team advisor
PostDoc at Translational Genome Editing group, University of Zürich

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who contributed to the successful completion of this project. We are grateful to Professor Gerald Schwank for providing us with the opportunity to work in his lab and for facilitating access to the resources necessary for this research. Special thanks go to Lukas Schmidheini for his invaluable feedback and guidance throughout the project. We are grateful to Tara Olivia Stoll-Bickel for her help with performing some of the experiments. We also extend our gratitude to Songyuan Zhang for his creative input during the brainstorming and conceptualization phase. We thank our sponsors Dementia Research Switzerland - Synapsis Foundation, University of Zurich UZH, and Neurimmune AG, whose generous financial support made this research possible.