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Founder of the 2018 instagram page, Amanda has had a major role in designing the Macquarie University iGEM team.

Angus is our very own nanodrop expert. Not only has he worked in the labs, but he has also spent much of his time in the dry lab, conducting and planning interviews, as well as shaping our customer discovery idea.

Areti is always there to laugh at our non-funny iGEM puns, and brightens up every room she enters. She’s been an integral part of our inter-lab work, and is always there to help where needed.

For Ari, this is not his first time around the block. Ari was part of last year’s Macquarie University iGEM team, whose immense success left us with a hard act to follow. Ari is always so helpful in the lab, offering a large array of lab skills. He is a very science driven student, who is a valuable asset to the team.

Hamish’s official title is ‘Director of Safe Lab Practices’. He’s always there to remind us to wear our lab coats and safety glasses, and to not explode the microwave. It’s no lie that his luscious beard is the main reason we like him. Hamish is a dedicated worker in the lab, and has also conducted many interviews, and worked tirelessly to discover a plethora of contacts within the industry.

Irene the lean, mean, queen. Her dry lab work, and communication with other scholars and iGEM teams has been essential to our human practices. Whether it's tweeting, facebooking, emailing or skyping we can always count on Irene to keep things organised and moving forward.

Also formally known as ‘The Shirt Guy’, Jarryd is definitely the go to guy for any and all of our iGEM questions. He is a fun loving, walking encyclopedia, and we all love him for it. He spends all his morning, afternoons, evenings and late nights in the lab, playing a key role in our lab success.

Josip is a Science and Secondary education student, whose fashion sense is equally as awesome as his iGEM dedication. His positive attitude and the many hours he has devoted in the lab are qualities we love about him.

The artistic maestro of our iGEM team, with a brilliant creative vision. Karl is studying a double degree of Law and Science, and he is not afraid to lay down the LAW!

Ken is a very quiet achiever but has managed to have a very loud role in our human practices project. He has emailed heaps of academics, arranged interviews and taken part in many interviews, proving his importance to the team.

He’s a poet and he doesn’t even know it! Nick has discovered an unquenchable linguistic gift that has given rise to our prized suite of Poems, named the ‘Chlorofella Chronicles’. His soldering skills have also been utilized in the making of another invaluable addition to the team, the DNA model.

Loves a good unbalanced centrifuge, and exploding microwaves. Renee has been a vital part of our interviewing process, spending hours preparing for and participating in interviews with members of the pharmaceutical field all around Sydney. Renee has also been heavily involved in our fundraising efforts, and has spent many late nights researching and skyping.

Zoe is currently studying a bachelor of science, and enjoys freezing agar plates, weird internet subcultures, as well as being a fanatical herpetologist. Zoe can always be found working hard in the lab, or using her breathtaking programming skills to create our iGEM website. Zoe loves a good snakey shaped graph in her modeling work.

Wow, what a product (inside joke. Not sure everyone will get it) Prof. Robert Willows has provided the team with fundamental knowledge throughout iGEM. Through his extensive knowledge from chlorophyll to modelling. Rob has been vital in helping us with shaping our ideas into reality.

Dr Louise Brown has been an integral part of Macquarie Australia iGEM team since its inception, in 2010. Dr Louise has provided strong guidance on ideas throughout iGEM, and allowed us to facilitate the project we have today. Through Dr Louise’s connection we have been able to get sponsorship something halp just needs a little more.

Thi is a committed, valuable and well loved advisor to our team. Thi has taken on the role of tackling our team into lab in training and help locating and use of lab equipment. Her skills are invaluable and we wouldn’t be able to work on our project without her. With the IGEM 2018 end coming up, we hope that we didn’t cause her too much stress and thank her for everything she has done for us!

Dr. Paul Jaschke has helped out the team by providing constant support in the field of synthetic biology and by providing the human practices team an overview of customer discovery. Paul has been an avid supporter of the Chlorofella Chronicles and our antics throughout the year and we thank him for his continual support this year.

Edward Moh has been a key driving force in this year's team. WIth Ed’s constant drive and push for the team has allowed us to put our butts into gear. This year Ed has been an exceptional supporter from our logical to wacky ideas, and help advise us through it to get to where we are today. Thank you Ed for your pep talks and support throughout this year!

Dominic is PhD candidate working with style. He’s been a part of Macquarie’s iGEM team since 2013 when he was a member of the team. Through his artistic insight and colour palette choices he has been an integral part in steering our wiki into the right direction. Dominic has been a key role in our interlab, helping our team through the fluorosphere.

Mike Gibbs has been another great advisor to the Macquarie Australia iGEM team and has had a role in the Macquarie iGEM team since 2013.. Through his advice, training and love of crosswords, the team were able to learn the basic in synthetic biology and the road of iGEM before us. Through the early days of bootcamp to lunch time team bonding, thank you Mike for passing on his insightful knowledge as well as quirky facts to us this year.