Full name: Manuel Gersbacher
My first contact with SB was in 2002, reading an article about organism which could be engineered to meet certain purposes. Some years later I discovered the November 2005 edition of Nature on synthetic biology. They had this comic strip on the cover, explaining POPS and other notions of synthetic biology. I never liked comic strips but they had my attention. Well, later on we formed this team, we thought up this project and we developed it at the bench. I am very glad that we went through this experience and I am very proud on this team, which was standing most of the summer in this terrible hot lab, while our mates have been swimming up and down the Rhine.
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