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<h1>Team</h1>
 
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<p>In this page you can introduce your team members, instructors, and advisors. </p>
 
  
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<h3>What should this page contain?</h3>
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<li> Include pictures of your teammates, don’t forget instructors and advisors! </li>
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<li>You can add a small biography or a few words from each team member, to tell us what you like, and what motivated you to participate in iGEM.</li>
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<li>Take team pictures! Show us your school, your lab and little bit of your city.</li>
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<h3>Inspiration</h3>
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<p>You can look at what other teams did to get some inspiration! <br />
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Here are a few examples:</p>
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<li><a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:METU_Turkey_team">2014 METU Turkey </a></li>
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<li><a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Colombia/Members">2014 Colombia</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Stony_Brook/Team">2014 Stony Brook</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:OUC-China/Team">2014 OUC-China</a></li>
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            <h1>Meet the Team</h1>
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            <br/>
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        <div class="subheading">
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            <h6>The Completely Clueless Ones</h6>
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<div class="row">
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        <div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-4" id="display-pic">
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                        <img src="Images/joshdp-mouseover.JPG">
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                        </div>
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        <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4">
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                        <h5>Joshua Lawrence</h5>
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                        <h2>What is your nickname?</h2>
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                <p>I am known as The Cheese Man, cos cheese is my second love after turing patterns</p>
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                <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
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                <p>There aren't any interesting raves this summer, so I thought I'd do iGEM</p>
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                <h2>What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?</h2>
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                <p>None of them, he's a twat!</p>
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                <h2>What would you be doing  now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
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                <p>Trying to rave at uninteresting raves</p>
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                <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
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                <p>Have crazy ideas and work on Turing patterns!</p>
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        </div>
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      </div>
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        <!--Student 2-->
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<div class="row">
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        <div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-4" id="display-pic">
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                        <img src="Images/lidiadp-mouseover.JPG">
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                        </div>
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        <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4">
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                        <h5>Lidia Ripoll-Sanchez</h5>
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                        <h2>What is your nickname?</h2>
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                <p>It’s Yaya, because I am the wisest in the team</p>
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                <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
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                <p>Because it is an amazing competition that gives young students the freedom to work on their own projects at a professional level.</p>
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                <h2>What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?</h2>
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                <p>“Formation of Nitrogenase NifDK Tetramers in the Mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” This was the first Chris Voigt paper I ever read.  I really liked it because it gives insight and the ground to solve two of the main problems of our generation, food production and environmental contamination through fertilisers.</p>
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                <h2>What would you be doing  now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
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                <p>I would be visiting family and friends around the world, hiking in the Alps or scuba diving in Mallorca. I could also be baking massive colourful cakes or tanning with my friends next to a crystal clear swimming pool. As none of these activities are fun enough I decided to do iGEM not to get bored this summer.</p>
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                <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
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                <p>With enough enthusiasm and effort anyone can do iGEM. Just have fun, enjoy everyday, be super organised and follow the main iGEM rule: Trust your team!</p>
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        <!--Student 3-->
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        <div class="row">
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                <div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-4" id="display-pic">
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                                <img src="Images/dielzadp-mouseover.JPG">
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                                </div>
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                <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4">
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                                <h5>Diellza Mujku</h5>
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                                <h2>What is your nickname?</h2>
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                                <p>Don't have one, but Shiv occasionally calls me D, but I think that's cos he's just lazy to say my full name.</p>
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                                <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
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                                <p>There aren't any interesting raves this summer, so I thought I'd do iGEM</p>
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                                <h2>What would you be doing  now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
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                                <p>Trying to rave at uninteresting raves</p>
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                                <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
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                                <p>Have crazy ideas and work on Turing patterns!</p>
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                </div>
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        <div class="row">
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                                <img src="Images/siwatdp-mouseover.JPG">
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                <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4">
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                                <h5>Siwat Chang</h5>
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                                <h2>What is your nickname?</h2>
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                <p>Big. Don’t ask.</p>
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                <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
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                <p>Working with an excellent team, solving (plausibly) global problems using my degree (Yes mom, it can be useful after all), learning many new things and perspectives and a free trip to Boston! :)</p>
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                <h2>What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?</h2>
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                <p>When is he going to create Spiderman web-shooters using Salmonella type III secretion?</p>
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                <h2>What would you be doing  now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
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                <p>Playing video games, lots and lots of video games.</p>
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                <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
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                <p>Be crazy, but plan your descent into madness one step at a time!</p>
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        <!--Student 5-->
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        <div class="row">
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                <div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-4" id="display-pic">
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                                <img src="Images/albertodp-mouseover.JPG">
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                                </div>
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                <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4">
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                                <h5>Alberto Scarampi del Cairo</h5>
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                                <h2>What is your nickname?</h2>
 +
                                <p>People call me Alberto, which is funny, because my friends also call me Alberto</p>
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                                <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
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                                <p>Why wouldn't I?</p>
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                                <h2>What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?</h2>
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                                <p>Fernandez-Rodriguez, J., Moser, F., Song, M. and Voigt, C. (2017). <i>Engineering RGB color vision into Escherichia coli.</i> Nature Chemical Biology, 13(7), pp.706-708.</p>
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                                <h2>What would you be doing  now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
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                                <p>Probaby stalking iGEM teams instagram profiles</p>
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                                <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
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                                <p>Make life out of life [J. Joyce]</p>
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              </div>
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        <div class="row">
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                <div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-4" id="display-pic">
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                                <img src="Images/luisdp-mouseover.JPG">
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                                </div>
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                <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4">
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                                <h5>Luis Chaves Rodriguez</h5>
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                                <h2>What is your nickname?</h2>
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                                <p>My friends may call me Luiso, Lucho and I gave myself the nickname of Lucha when I opened my twitter account back in 2008.</p>
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                                <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 +
                                <p>I find iGEM to be an amazing opportunity to learn about synbio (subject I’m fascinated about) but also about so many other things in life, like: working in a team, working as a team, organisation, creativity… and in addition to this, getting to share this experience with thousand of other students from around the world in Boston is what made me do iGEM this summer :)</p>
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                                <h2>What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?</h2>
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                                <p>“Life from Information” is an excellent review on what has been done in the field of biotechnology so far and the challenges that need to be tackled in the future.</p>
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                                <h2>What would you be doing  now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
 +
                                <p>I would probably be working in a cafe or maybe in a climbing gym or learning bike mechanics in a bike shop. And probably doing a python boot camp in my spare time. Sounds way less exciting than iGEM</p>
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                                <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
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                                <p>When it comes to choosing a project don’t be afraid of thinking of very innovative ideas but also ideas that can have a significant impact and that can be as universal and modulable as possible. Foundational projects are very much needed in this baby stage of Synbio.</p>
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        <div class="row">
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                <div class="col-xs-6 col-sm-4" id="display-pic">
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                                <img src="Images/thomasdp-mouseover.JPG">
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                <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4">
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                                <h5>Thomas Caganek</h5>
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                                <h2>What is your nickname?</h2>
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                                <p>Scooterboy - I come to the lab on a scooter.</p>
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                                <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 +
                                <p>Love to build cool stuff with biology and Jurassic Park - mainly Jurassic Park</p>
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                                <h2>What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?</h2>
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                                <p>Engineering RGB color vision into Escherichia coli - by far the best one.</p>
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                                <h2>What would you be doing  now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
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                                <p>I’d probably be at the gym or fishing at the lake - but I’d get bored quickly. iGEM is the right level of intensity.</p>
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                                <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
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                                <p>Work on projects that you find cool - the applications will follow and are hard to predict. </p>
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                                <h5>Yutong Yin</h5>
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                                <h2>What is your nickname?</h2>
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                <p>Yu </p>
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                <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
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                <p>Because you get a chance to be creative and think of crazy ideas with a group of lovely people. win-win</p>
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                <h2>What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?</h2>
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                <p>I like colourful stuff, so please take a guess.</p>
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                <h2>What would you be doing  now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
 +
                <p>I'd stay in my room with the AC turned on, eating mom’s home-cooked food and having fun with my little sister. So, instead of creating problems for the environment, I decided to solve them by doing iGEM.</p>
 +
                <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
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                <p>I love iGEM, I think you will too. </p>
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                                <h5>Will Beardall</h5>
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                                <h2>What is your nickname?</h2>
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                                <p>Handsome, cos why not.</p>
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                                <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 +
                                <p>Awesome CV building</p>
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                                <h2>What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?</h2>
 +
                                <p>Probabbly something to do with quantum dots</p>
 +
                                <h2>What would you be doing  now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
 +
                                <p>Working on something to do with quantum dots.</p>
 +
                                <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
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                                <p>Work on quantum dots</p>
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                                <h5>Shivang Joshi</h5>
 +
                                <h2>What is your nickname?</h2>
 +
                                <p>It's Shiv, ignore whatever Yaya says</p>
 +
                                <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 +
                                <p>I like breaking down big complicated things and then remaking them however I like, that's why synthbio appeals to me. But, tbh I'll be doing things like that in a PhD anyway, the real reason I joined iGEM is to get involved with science outside the lab, and I comend the iGEM foundation for encouraging students to put emphasis on this forgotten aspect of science.</p>
 +
                                <h2>What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?</h2>
 +
                                <p>I wanna say the RGB bacterial system or the refactoring nitrogen pathway paper, but they've already been said above, so unfortunatlye I don't have anything original to offer.</p>
 +
                                <h2>What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
 +
                                <p>Nothing too different to what I'm doing now, I'd just be testing my limits in other ways, like working a summer job as a waiter, or spend more hours in the climbing gym. </p>
 +
                                <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 +
                                <p>It's too early to give advice to others, but if I have to say something, if you're ever going through hell, keep moving forward, no matter what do not break down, you will make it out, there is no other choice. Soz if it sounds a bit grim. </p>
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                                <h5>Amritpal Singh</h5>
 +
                                <h2 >What is your nickname?</h2>
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                                <p>The Guardian</p>
 +
                                <h2 >Why are you doing iGEM (again!)?</h2>
 +
                                <p>iGEM was a great experience during my undergraduate, so much so that I did it twice. It would be a great opportunity to go from student to mentor and impart the spirit of iGEM into the young, fresh and naive minds of the following generation. Plus my supervisor said I have too. </p>
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                                <h2 >What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?</h2>
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                                <p>Who's Chris Voigt?</p>
 +
                                <h2>What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
 +
                                <p>Playing with Bacterial Cellulose in my PhD and in my free time collecting and restoring antique weapons of the Indo-Persian variety and kicking it on some video games.</p>
 +
                                <h2 >Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 +
                                <p>Run. Kidding. Synbios the future so develop the field, pass on the knowledge and enjoy being at the cutting edge and driving a field that’s full of some truly great minds. </p>
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                                <h5>Ismael Mullor Ruiz</h5>
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                                <h2 >What is your nickname?</h2>
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                                <p>Isma and Rasputin (self-chosen)</p>
 +
                                <h2 >Why are you doing iGEM (again!)?</h2>
 +
                                <p>I had previously taken part as a student in two iGEM teams and I found the experience rewarding at so many levels that I thought that having the chance to re-experience it in another role with the additional knowledge I had earned through some years was a chance that I could not miss</p>
 +
                                <h2 >What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?</h2>
 +
                                <p>Genetic encoding of DNA nanostructures and their self-assembly in living bacteria (2016). I am a big fan of everything related to nucleic acids nanotechnology and their applications</p>
 +
                                <h2>What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
 +
                                <p>I’d be focusing more on my Ph.D and if I found some spare time I would be brewing a new batch of artisan mead while blasting some hard rock or just slacking around.</p>
 +
                                <h2 >Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 +
                                <p>Be bold, but remember research is a long term enterprise. Beware of burnout and narcissists.</p>
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            <h3>Dr Thomas Ouldridge</h3>
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            <p>Fellow in Bioengineering</p>
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                <p>Imperial College London</p>
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            <p>Fellow in Bioengineering</p>
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            <p>Imperial College London</p>
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Meet the Team



The Completely Clueless Ones


Joshua Lawrence

What is your nickname?

I am known as The Cheese Man, cos cheese is my second love after turing patterns

Why are you doing iGEM?

There aren't any interesting raves this summer, so I thought I'd do iGEM

What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?

None of them, he's a twat!

What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?

Trying to rave at uninteresting raves

Message to future iGEMers?

Have crazy ideas and work on Turing patterns!

Lidia Ripoll-Sanchez

What is your nickname?

It’s Yaya, because I am the wisest in the team

Why are you doing iGEM?

Because it is an amazing competition that gives young students the freedom to work on their own projects at a professional level.

What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?

“Formation of Nitrogenase NifDK Tetramers in the Mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” This was the first Chris Voigt paper I ever read. I really liked it because it gives insight and the ground to solve two of the main problems of our generation, food production and environmental contamination through fertilisers.

What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?

I would be visiting family and friends around the world, hiking in the Alps or scuba diving in Mallorca. I could also be baking massive colourful cakes or tanning with my friends next to a crystal clear swimming pool. As none of these activities are fun enough I decided to do iGEM not to get bored this summer.

Message to future iGEMers?

With enough enthusiasm and effort anyone can do iGEM. Just have fun, enjoy everyday, be super organised and follow the main iGEM rule: Trust your team!

Diellza Mujku

What is your nickname?

Don't have one, but Shiv occasionally calls me D, but I think that's cos he's just lazy to say my full name.

Why are you doing iGEM?

There aren't any interesting raves this summer, so I thought I'd do iGEM

What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?

Trying to rave at uninteresting raves

Message to future iGEMers?

Have crazy ideas and work on Turing patterns!

Siwat Chang

What is your nickname?

Big. Don’t ask.

Why are you doing iGEM?

Working with an excellent team, solving (plausibly) global problems using my degree (Yes mom, it can be useful after all), learning many new things and perspectives and a free trip to Boston! :)

What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?

When is he going to create Spiderman web-shooters using Salmonella type III secretion?

What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?

Playing video games, lots and lots of video games.

Message to future iGEMers?

Be crazy, but plan your descent into madness one step at a time!

Alberto Scarampi del Cairo

What is your nickname?

People call me Alberto, which is funny, because my friends also call me Alberto

Why are you doing iGEM?

Why wouldn't I?

What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?

Fernandez-Rodriguez, J., Moser, F., Song, M. and Voigt, C. (2017). Engineering RGB color vision into Escherichia coli. Nature Chemical Biology, 13(7), pp.706-708.

What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?

Probaby stalking iGEM teams instagram profiles

Message to future iGEMers?

Make life out of life [J. Joyce]

Luis Chaves Rodriguez

What is your nickname?

My friends may call me Luiso, Lucho and I gave myself the nickname of Lucha when I opened my twitter account back in 2008.

Why are you doing iGEM?

I find iGEM to be an amazing opportunity to learn about synbio (subject I’m fascinated about) but also about so many other things in life, like: working in a team, working as a team, organisation, creativity… and in addition to this, getting to share this experience with thousand of other students from around the world in Boston is what made me do iGEM this summer :)

What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?

“Life from Information” is an excellent review on what has been done in the field of biotechnology so far and the challenges that need to be tackled in the future.

What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?

I would probably be working in a cafe or maybe in a climbing gym or learning bike mechanics in a bike shop. And probably doing a python boot camp in my spare time. Sounds way less exciting than iGEM

Message to future iGEMers?

When it comes to choosing a project don’t be afraid of thinking of very innovative ideas but also ideas that can have a significant impact and that can be as universal and modulable as possible. Foundational projects are very much needed in this baby stage of Synbio.

Thomas Caganek

What is your nickname?

Scooterboy - I come to the lab on a scooter.

Why are you doing iGEM?

Love to build cool stuff with biology and Jurassic Park - mainly Jurassic Park

What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?

Engineering RGB color vision into Escherichia coli - by far the best one.

What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?

I’d probably be at the gym or fishing at the lake - but I’d get bored quickly. iGEM is the right level of intensity.

Message to future iGEMers?

Work on projects that you find cool - the applications will follow and are hard to predict.

Yutong Yin

What is your nickname?

Yu

Why are you doing iGEM?

Because you get a chance to be creative and think of crazy ideas with a group of lovely people. win-win

What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?

I like colourful stuff, so please take a guess.

What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?

I'd stay in my room with the AC turned on, eating mom’s home-cooked food and having fun with my little sister. So, instead of creating problems for the environment, I decided to solve them by doing iGEM.

Message to future iGEMers?

I love iGEM, I think you will too.

Will Beardall

What is your nickname?

Handsome, cos why not.

Why are you doing iGEM?

Awesome CV building

What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?

Probabbly something to do with quantum dots

What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?

Working on something to do with quantum dots.

Message to future iGEMers?

Work on quantum dots

Shivang Joshi

What is your nickname?

It's Shiv, ignore whatever Yaya says

Why are you doing iGEM?

I like breaking down big complicated things and then remaking them however I like, that's why synthbio appeals to me. But, tbh I'll be doing things like that in a PhD anyway, the real reason I joined iGEM is to get involved with science outside the lab, and I comend the iGEM foundation for encouraging students to put emphasis on this forgotten aspect of science.

What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?

I wanna say the RGB bacterial system or the refactoring nitrogen pathway paper, but they've already been said above, so unfortunatlye I don't have anything original to offer.

What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?

Nothing too different to what I'm doing now, I'd just be testing my limits in other ways, like working a summer job as a waiter, or spend more hours in the climbing gym.

Message to future iGEMers?

It's too early to give advice to others, but if I have to say something, if you're ever going through hell, keep moving forward, no matter what do not break down, you will make it out, there is no other choice. Soz if it sounds a bit grim.

The Slightly Less Clueless Ones


Amritpal Singh

What is your nickname?

The Guardian

Why are you doing iGEM (again!)?

iGEM was a great experience during my undergraduate, so much so that I did it twice. It would be a great opportunity to go from student to mentor and impart the spirit of iGEM into the young, fresh and naive minds of the following generation. Plus my supervisor said I have too.

What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?

Who's Chris Voigt?

What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?

Playing with Bacterial Cellulose in my PhD and in my free time collecting and restoring antique weapons of the Indo-Persian variety and kicking it on some video games.

Message to future iGEMers?

Run. Kidding. Synbios the future so develop the field, pass on the knowledge and enjoy being at the cutting edge and driving a field that’s full of some truly great minds.


Ismael Mullor Ruiz

What is your nickname?

Isma and Rasputin (self-chosen)

Why are you doing iGEM (again!)?

I had previously taken part as a student in two iGEM teams and I found the experience rewarding at so many levels that I thought that having the chance to re-experience it in another role with the additional knowledge I had earned through some years was a chance that I could not miss

What’s your favorite Chris Voigt paper?

Genetic encoding of DNA nanostructures and their self-assembly in living bacteria (2016). I am a big fan of everything related to nucleic acids nanotechnology and their applications

What would you be doing now if you weren’t doing iGEM?

I’d be focusing more on my Ph.D and if I found some spare time I would be brewing a new batch of artisan mead while blasting some hard rock or just slacking around.

Message to future iGEMers?

Be bold, but remember research is a long term enterprise. Beware of burnout and narcissists.

The Least Clueless Ones


Dr Thomas Ouldridge

Fellow in Bioengineering

Imperial College London

Contact at

Dr Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro

Fellow in Bioengineering

Imperial College London

Contact at

Professor Richard Kitney

Professor in Bioengineering

Imperial College London

Contact at