The Hans und Ria Messer Foundation stands as a remarkable example of how philanthropy can empower science, education, and young minds. With a strong commitment to fostering research, supporting academic learning, and enabling students to reach their full potential, the foundation plays a key role in strengthening the scientific landscape in Germany. Their generous support has provided our team with the financial security to plan and carry out our project with confidence from the very beginning. Thanks to this trust and commitment, we were able to fully dedicate ourselves to exploring ambitious ideas, developing innovative solutions, and embracing the collaborative spirit of iGEM. We are deeply thankful to the Hans und Ria Messer Stiftung for supporting our journey. Their belief in our vision and in the potential of student-led science made our participation in this year’s competition possible.

The university's IT Service Center, as the central provider of IT services, generously supplied us with the necessary licenses to successfully implement our project and design our Wiki. Their support ensured that we had the digital tools required to bring our ideas to fruition and effectively document our work. We are deeply grateful for their contribution, which played a pivotal role in enabling us to efficiently manage and present our research.

BioQuant, the interdisciplinary Research Center for Quantitative Analysis of Molecular and Cellular Systems at Heidelberg University, is a leading institution in the field of quantitative biology, driving both research and education. The center promotes innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration, making it a vital contributor to scientific progress. We deeply appreciate BioQuant's generous support, which included providing a lab space for our team- an invaluable resource. Their support played a pivotal role in the success of our project, allowing us to carry out our research effectively.

The Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB) is dedicated to the development, exploration, and application of active pharmaceutical ingredients, along with investigating molecular and cellular mechanisms of action. We are immensely grateful for IPMB’s generous support, which included providing their laboratories for our cell culture experiments and hosting our team meetings. Their contribution was crucial, allowing us to conduct essential parts of our research in a cutting-edge environment. We sincerely thank IPMB for their unwavering commitment to advancing scientific research and promoting collaboration.

The Center for Synthetic Genomics is a trans-regional hub that fosters interdisciplinary innovation. We want to thank them for their invaluable support in financing crucial lab supplies and admire their commitment to the thrilling advancement in the production of synthetic DNA and its enormous potential for application.

The Heidelberg Life-Science Lab, affiliated with the German Cancer Research Center since 2002, is committed to nurturing mathematically and scientifically talented middle and high school students. We are extremely grateful for their generous support, which included offering lab space for our Summer School. Additionally, they hosted our Friday Lectures in person, following their own format, and helped publicize these events to their students. Their invaluable contributions were key in expanding our reach and ensuring the success of our educational initiatives.

We sincerely thank the Zimmermann team at EMBL for their outstanding support and usage of EMBL equipment for imaging purposes. Thanks to them and their guidance we were able to advance our efforts in developing a thermo-sensitive component for our engineered circuit.

We are grateful and acknowledge the support from the state of Baden-Württemberg through bwHPC and the German Research Foundation (DFG) through grant INST 35/1597-1 FUGG for structural and systems biology, medical science, soft matter, and computational humanities, as well as the development of interdisciplinary methodologies

Eppendorf, a global leader in life sciences, offers equipment, consumables and services for labs. Thanks to their generous support we were able to obtain important lab materials as direct gifts and through discounts. They provided us with the means to conduct experiments with precision and efficacy. We greatly appreciate Eppendorf’s commitment to advancing scientific research and supporting our work.

SnapGene has provided us with their invaluable platform through which we were able to plan experiments and document DNA cloning with convenient annotation and primer design. We deeply thank them for the provision of their software and licences, which secured an efficient and highly-productive workflow. Our admiration goes for their commitment to uplift and support researchers across the world.

Integrated DNA Technologies as a leader in life science lab materials provider and official sponsor of the iGEM competition has supported us with crucial raw materials that helped us develop our constructs- having proved as an essential backbone for the development of our project. Therefore we want to express our team’s deep gratitude for our partnership and their outstanding commitment.

Twist Bioscience, a San Francisco based company specializing in the production of synthetic DNA and DNA products with wide spread application opportunities is also an official sponsor of the iGEM competition. With their generous help in the form of free gene fragments we were able to advance our investigations and conduct high-efficacy experiments, for which we feel deeply grateful.

Promega is a company that has proved itself to be a global biotechnological leader, providing instruments, reagents among many others. Their model of sustainability and community engagement is apparent through their partnership with iGEMers and we are happy to have benefited from their generous support.

The Twinkle Factory is a top-notch distributor of their breakthrough protein fluorescent reporters and molecular glues- FAST and splitFAST. We are glad to have been able to use their developed products and express our gratitude for the free consumables they have provided us with.

New England Biolabs is a renowned company that provides molecular biology reagents, and supplied us with essential kits- fundamental for our research.Their tradition in supporting iGEM teams is crucial for research progress and we are deeply grateful for their guidance and provided materials. Our partnership is of great value to us and what we have been able to achieve with their support and commitment.

Microsynth as a leader in synthesis and analysis of nucleic acids has generously supported our project with their efficient services and free materials. Their cooperation and reliability is what helped us validate our constructs and we deeply appreciate their passion for young researchers and the progress of life sciences.

Logos Biosystems is a visionary in life science imaging, which is why we are grateful to have been gifted invaluable equipment and also considerable discounts on various consumables. Our appreciation goes to their innovative spirit and we thank them for the outstanding commitment and support.