Team:US AFRL CarrollHS/Team
The Students!
Anna (Annie) Bete
Favorite Part About iGEM: The wiki freeze. Just kidding the Jamboree of course!!
Potential College Major: Computer Science/Computer Engineering
Favorite Time Period: The 1900s in Mankato, MN
Favorite Aircraft: Wright Flyer
Favorite Quote: “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” -Pope John Paul II
Yazmin Camacho
Favorite Part About iGEM: The lab work
Potential College Major: Microbiology
Favorite Time Period: The Elizabethan Era/The Tudor Period
Favorite Aircraft: Supermarine Spitfire
Favorite Quote: “The worst they can say is no.”
Jonah Carter
Favorite Part About iGEM: Meeting and talking with teams from around the world
Potential College Major: Electrical Engineering
Favorite Time Period: The future.......
Favorite Aircraft: B2
Favorite Quote: “One bird with two stones.”
Jason Dong
Favorite Part About iGEM: Lab work
Currently Attending: Duke University
College Major: Electrical Engineering
Favorite Time Period: American Revolution
Favorite Aircraft: B22 Bomber
Favorite Quote: “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” -Steve Prefontaine
Chris Guptil
Favorite Part About iGEM: Sharing great experiences with my friends.
Potential College Major: Mathematics/Statistics
Favorite Time Period: “The 1970's, those were wild times man. Also my hair is perfect for it.”
Favorite Aircraft: Curtis P-40 Warhawk
Favorite Quote: “Glimpses of ingeniousness are not inexplicable miracles, but rather the residue of experience.”
Max Herrmann
Favorite Part About iGEM: Learning
Potential College Major: Engineering of some sort
Favorite Time Period: 60s at a beatles concert
Favorite Aircraft: B17 Bomber
Favorite Quote: “You’ve got to work a little so you can ball a lot” -Tom Haverford
Hayley Jesse
Favorite Part About iGEM: Collaborations
Potential College Major: Biomedical Engineering
Favorite Time Period: 90s in New York City
Favorite Aircraft: F16
Favorite Quote: “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”
Peter Menart
Favorite Part About iGEM: Performing research and learning about synthetic biology
Currently Attending: The Ohio State University
College Major: Physics and Mathematics
Favorite Time Period: The Jurassic Period
Favorite Aircraft: B17 Bomber
Favorite Quote: “Anyone who never made a mistake has never tried something new.” -Einstein
Travis O'Leary
Favorite Part About iGEM: Running gels
Potential College Major: Engineering
Favorite Time Period: 100 BC Ancient Greece and Rome
Favorite Aircraft: CV-22 Osprey
Favorite Quote: “Ask for forgiveness before asking for permission.”
Laura Polanka
Favorite Part About iGEM: Running gels and plating
Potential College Major: Computer Science or Film/Media Studies
Favorite Time Period: The 1800s in England
Favorite Aircraft: That blue camo one in the picture
Favorite Quote: “Don’t let the muggles get you down, mate.” - Ron Weasley
Madeleine Sanders
Favorite Part About iGEM: Collaborating and expanding my knowledge of synbio
Potential College Major: Chemical or Biomedical Engineering
Favorite Time Period: The Renaissance
Favorite Aircraft: F22
Favorite Quote: “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
Mike the Microbe
Favorite Part About iGEM: Visiting other teams!
Potential College Major: Microbiology
Favorite Time Period: Whenever the first multicellular organism was created.
Favorite Aircraft: Supermarine Spitfire
Favorite Quote: "It only takes one."
The Mentors!
Dr. Chia Hung
Education: Not enough (ok, if it needs to be real- Ph.D. in Immunology)
Organization: AFRL
Favorite Spare Time Activity: Flying remote controlled airplanes and multicopters with our sons.
Favorite Aircraft: F-14 Tomcat (specifically, VF-103 Jolly Rogers squadron. :) )
Favorite Quote: "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English- up to fifty words used in correct context- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."- Carl Sagan
Dr. Mike Goodson
Education: BSc in Marine Biology (University of Wales, Swansea, UK), MSc in Oceanography (University of Southampton, UK), PhD in Cnidarian Symbioses (University of York, UK)
Organization: AFRL
Favorite Spare Time Activity: (What is this 'spare time' you speak of?!) Running
Favorite Aircraft: Supermarine Spitfire
Favorite Quote: I have two: "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm" - Winston Churchill and "Dream big and don't quit" - Mo Rocca
Dr. Nancy Kelley-Loughnane
Education: Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Boston College (BS in Chemistry, University of New Hampshire)
Organization: AFRL
Favorite Spare Time Activity: Traveling (especially to Cape Cod)
Favorite Aircraft: P-38
Favorite Quote: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” and “Nothing will work unless you do.” Maya Angelou
Dr. Vanessa Varaljay
Education: Ph.D., Microbiology, University of Georgia; B.S., Biology, Cleveland State University
Organization: UES/AFRL
Favorite Spare Time Activity: Running
Favorite Aircraft: A-10 Thunderbolt
Favorite Quote: “One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.” - Albert Einstein
Dr. Amy Breedon
Education: Ph.D. in Chemistry/Biochemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology (2017); B.S. in Chemistry from University of Pittsburgh (2012)
Organization: UES/AFRL
Favorite Spare Time Activity: Watching TV and being creative
Favorite Aircraft: SR-71
Favorite Quote: "Grad school is like becoming all of the seven dwarves. In the beginning, you're Dopey and Bashful. In the middle, you're Sneezy, Sleepy, and Grumpy. But at the end, they call you Doc and you're Happy."
Rachel Krabacher
Education: Bachelor's and Master's in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton, Master's thesis research in the Biomaterials lab in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, RXAS
Organization: RHXBC
Favorite Spare Time Activity: When not at work or coaching the Carroll High School volleyball team, I spend a lot of time playing sand and indoor volleyball tournaments.
Favorite Aircraft: B-25
Favorite Quote: "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
Dr. Martha Alvey Carter
Education: Lots of math
Organization: Carroll High School
Favorite Spare Time Activity: Hiking with my family
Favorite Aircraft: SR-71 The Blackbird
Favorite Quote: "Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the universe." - Galileo
Dr. Caroline Metosh-Dickey
Education: Ph.D. Biochemistry, Louisiana State University, M.S. Environmental Toxicology, LSU, B.S. Biology University of South Carolina
Organization: Carroll High School
Favorite Spare Time Activity: Writing
Favorite Aircraft: C-17
Favorite Quote: “If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.” - Albert Einstein
Dr. Christina E. O'Malley
Education: PhD, Ohio State University (Geology, 2009); MS, Ohio State Univesity (Geology, 2006); MS, University of Dayton (Education and Health Sciences, 2014); MST, Wright State University (Earth Science, 2004); BS, Wright State University (Biology, 2002); BS, Wright State University (Chemistry, 2002)
Organization: Carroll High School
Favorite Spare Time Activity: Hiking
Favorite Aircraft: SR-71 Blackbird
Favorite Quote: "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Christina Davis
Currently attending: Wright State University
Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Organization: UES/AFRL
Favorite Spare Time Activity: Kayaking and Hiking
Favorite Aircraft: U-2 Dragon
Favorite Quote: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.” - Gandhi
Dallas McDonald
Currently attending: Case Western University
Major: Biology
Organization: UES/AFRL
Favorite Spare Time Activity: Listening to Avant-Garde Jazz Noise, Playing the drums
Favorite Aircraft: XB70 Valkyrie
Favorite Quote: “I’m garbage at math.” - Dallas McDonald
Andrea Poole
Currently attending: Wright State University
Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology<
Organization: UES/AFRL
Favorite Spare Time Activity: Boating, being with friends/family, listening to music
Favorite Aircraft: U2
Favorite Quote: “That makes too much sense.”