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Our Team

Annabelle Annabelle Winzer
Master's student, ETH Zürich
Still thinks that "Size Matters" would have been a better title for our project.
Elia Elia Weber
Master's student, ETH Zürich
Knows all the fishes and golden gate overhangs by heart
Daria Daria Belous
Master's student, ETH Zürich
Master of homeopathic cloning. Can pour 90 plates per minute, but forgets how to do a miniprep
Dave Dave Binder
Master's student, ETH Zürich
Can be found in the exclusively lab before 7 or after midnight. Does not recognise the art of labeling
Etienne Etienne Mathier
Master's student, ETH Zürich
Can make strains and is cooler than liquid nitrogen (but can't beat Saskia in dance battles).
Sofia Sofia Filippini
Master's student, ETH Zürich
If excitment for a topic could win you the Nobel Prize, she would have the one for GFP.
Saskia Saskia Gerecke
Master's student, UZH
Can mindcontrol phages and dance battle Etienne
David David Jewanski
Master's student, ETH Zürich
Keeps calm and codes on (for everyone else).
Lorenz Lorenz Widmer
Team Advisor, ETH Zürich und Uni Basel
The all-knowing biology powermind
Philip Philip Nitsch
Team Advisor, ETH Zürich
Can sacrifice your kindey for the team budget and his own fridge space for the project
Kian Kian Bigović Villi
Team Advisor, ETH Zürich
Provides feedback at T-minus 120 minutes.
Michael Nash Michael Nash
Professor, ETH Zürich und Uni Basel
Associate Professor at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering

Acknowledgements

We want to express our sincere gratitude to all people who contributed to the successful execution of this project. We are thankful to Professor Michael Nash for hosting us in his lab and for facilitating access to the resources necessary for this research.

Special thanks go to Lorenz Widmer for his invaluable feedback and guidance throughout the project. We value each conversation on the project design, new tricks learned in the lab, and help with data analysis.

We are grateful to Philip Nitsch for his helping hand in the PACE project.

Finally, we would like to thank all the Nash lab group members for putting up with our us and our mishaps and giving us a helping hand.

The project would also not be possible without the financial help of Werner Siemens Stiftung, MedQap GmbH, ETH, and Georgina Leimer.