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                         <h5>Joshua Lawrence</h5>
 
                         <h5>Joshua Lawrence</h5>
 
                         <h2>What is your nickname?</h2>
 
                         <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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                 <p>I am known as The Cheese Man, because I rate cheese</p>
 
                 <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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                 <p>Because I love feeling like a genius and an idiot on alternating days</p>
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                 <h2>What would you be doing  now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
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                 <h2>Notable quotes?</h2>
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                 <p>Trying to rave at uninteresting raves</p>
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                 <p>"We can't make Turing patterns!" and *Socialist screeching* in Middle English</p>
 
                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
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                 <p>Have crazy ideas and work on Turing patterns!</p>
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                 <p>Be crazy, make Turing patterns</p>
 
                          
 
                          
 
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                 <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 
                 <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 
                 <p>Because it is an amazing competition that gives young students the freedom to work on their own projects at a professional level.</p>
 
                 <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 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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                 <p>"Guys, let's have a meeting!"</p>
 
                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                 <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>
 
                 <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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                                 <h5>Diellza Mujku</h5>
 
                                 <h5>Diellza Mujku</h5>
 
                                 <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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                                 <p>Dr. Mujku, since IDT thinks I've got a Ph.D</p>
 
                                 <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 
                                 <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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                                 <p>As it is a unique opportunity to work on a project of your own choice and as result a possibility to be creative and contribute to the field of synthetic biology as part of an amazing team</p>
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                                 <h2>Notable quotes?</h2>
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                                 <p>Trying to rave at uninteresting raves</p>
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                                 <p>"Surely, if you do <b>x</b>, you'd be able to get <b>y</b>"</p>
 
                                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
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                                 <p>Have crazy ideas and work on Turing patterns!</p>
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                                 <p>Always plan ahead</p>
 
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                 <p>Big. Don’t ask.</p>
 
                 <p>Big. Don’t ask.</p>
 
                 <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 
                 <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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                 <p>I needed a summer internship and iGEM sounded like fun. Also Bangkok is way too hot for any functioning human being to live in. กรุงเทพร้อนมาก!</p>
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                 <h2>What would you be doing  now if you weren’t doing iGEM?</h2>
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                 <h2>Notable quotes?</h2>
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                 <p>Playing video games, lots and lots of video games.</p>
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                 <p>"I'm working on it!", "Buenisimo!" and any of lyrics from Rasputin, Country Roads and Heyeayea (He-Man version)</p>
 
                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                 <p>Be crazy, but plan your descent into madness one step at a time!</p>
 
                 <p>Be crazy, but plan your descent into madness one step at a time!</p>
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                                 <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 
                                 <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 
                                 <p>Why wouldn't I?</p>
 
                                 <p>Why wouldn't I?</p>
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                                 <p>Enjoying holidays probably</p>
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                                 <p>"What is morality?", "But is it stochastic?" and "I need a coffee and a bueno"</p>
 
                                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <p>”Ye were not form’d to live the life of brutes, but virtue to pursue and knowledge high” [Dante Alighieri]</p>
 
                                 <p>”Ye were not form’d to live the life of brutes, but virtue to pursue and knowledge high” [Dante Alighieri]</p>
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                                 <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 
                                 <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>
 
                                 <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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                                 <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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                                 <p>"I'm not sure about the analogy is so powerful, on one side we show ethics by "protecting" people from GMOs and on the other side we compare this to restraining huge animals with higher cognitive abilities with an electric fence"</p>
 
                                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <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>
 
                                 <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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                                 <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 
                                 <p>Love to build cool stuff with biology and Jurassic Park - mainly Jurassic Park</p>
 
                                 <p>Love to build cool stuff with biology and Jurassic Park - mainly Jurassic Park</p>
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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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                                 <p>"GG" and *Capitalist screeching* in German</p>
 
                                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <p>Work on projects that you find cool - the applications will follow and are hard to predict. </p>
 
                                 <p>Work on projects that you find cool - the applications will follow and are hard to predict. </p>
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                 <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 
                 <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 
                 <p>Because you get a chance to be creative and think of crazy ideas with a group of lovely people. win-win</p>
 
                 <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>Notable quotes?</h2>
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                 <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>
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                 <p>"ALB-EEEEEEEEER-TO" and "I had (N<5) hours of sleep last night"</p>
 
                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                 <p>I loved iGEM, I think you will too. </p>
 
                 <p>I loved iGEM, I think you will too. </p>
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                                 <h2>Why are you doing iGEM?</h2>
 
                                 <p>Awesome CV building</p>
 
                                 <p>Awesome CV building</p>
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                                 <p>Working on something to do with quantum dots.</p>
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                                 <p>"YEEEEEEEEEET" "It's a little bit finicky" "It be too easy" and *snaps his fingers to a finger gun </p>
 
                                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <p>Work on quantum dots</p>
 
                                 <p>Work on quantum dots</p>
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                                 <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>
 
                                 <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>
  
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                                 <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>
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                                 <p>"No, No, No, That's the thing!" or "See, here is the thing."</p>
 
                                 <h2>Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <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>
 
                                 <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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                                 <h2 >Why are you doing iGEM (again!)?</h2>
 
                                 <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>
 
                                 <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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                                 <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>
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                                 <p>"That's the thing right?"</p>
 
                                 <h2 >Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <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>
 
                                 <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>
 
                                 <h5>Ismael Mullor Ruiz</h5>
 
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                                 <p>Isma and Rasputin (self-chosen)</p>
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                                 <p>Isma (mostly) and Rasputin (ocassionally)</p>
 
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                                 <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>
 
                                 <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>
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                                 <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>
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                                 <p>"Don't make questions if you are afraid of the answers"</p>
 
                                 <h2 >Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <h2 >Message to future iGEMers?</h2>
 
                                 <p>Be bold, but remember research is a long term enterprise. Beware of burnout and narcissists.</p>
 
                                 <p>Be bold, but remember research is a long term enterprise. Beware of burnout and narcissists.</p>
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Latest revision as of 01:57, 18 October 2018

Meet the Team

Students



Joshua Lawrence

What is your nickname?

I am known as The Cheese Man, because I rate cheese

Why are you doing iGEM?

Because I love feeling like a genius and an idiot on alternating days

Notable quotes?

"We can't make Turing patterns!" and *Socialist screeching* in Middle English

Message to future iGEMers?

Be crazy, make 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.

Notable quotes?

"Guys, let's have a meeting!"

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?

Dr. Mujku, since IDT thinks I've got a Ph.D

Why are you doing iGEM?

As it is a unique opportunity to work on a project of your own choice and as result a possibility to be creative and contribute to the field of synthetic biology as part of an amazing team

Notable quotes?

"Surely, if you do x, you'd be able to get y"

Message to future iGEMers?

Always plan ahead

Siwat Chang

What is your nickname?

Big. Don’t ask.

Why are you doing iGEM?

I needed a summer internship and iGEM sounded like fun. Also Bangkok is way too hot for any functioning human being to live in. กรุงเทพร้อนมาก!

Notable quotes?

"I'm working on it!", "Buenisimo!" and any of lyrics from Rasputin, Country Roads and Heyeayea (He-Man version)

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?

”Guardian of Stochasticity”, “Plate Reader Master” or just Albi

Why are you doing iGEM?

Why wouldn't I?

Notable quotes?

"What is morality?", "But is it stochastic?" and "I need a coffee and a bueno"

Message to future iGEMers?

”Ye were not form’d to live the life of brutes, but virtue to pursue and knowledge high” [Dante Alighieri]

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 :)

Notable quotes?

"I'm not sure about the analogy is so powerful, on one side we show ethics by "protecting" people from GMOs and on the other side we compare this to restraining huge animals with higher cognitive abilities with an electric fence"

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

Notable quotes?

"GG" and *Capitalist screeching* in German

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

Notable quotes?

"ALB-EEEEEEEEER-TO" and "I had (N<5) hours of sleep last night"

Message to future iGEMers?

I loved iGEM, I think you will too.

Will Beardall

What is your nickname?

Handsome, cos why not.

Why are you doing iGEM?

Awesome CV building

Notable quotes?

"YEEEEEEEEEET" "It's a little bit finicky" "It be too easy" and *snaps his fingers to a finger gun

Message to future iGEMers?

Work on quantum dots

Ph.D Supervisors



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.

Notable quotes?

"That's the thing right?"

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 (mostly) and Rasputin (ocassionally)

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

Notable quotes?

"Don't make questions if you are afraid of the answers"

Message to future iGEMers?

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

Academic Supervisors



Dr Thomas Ouldridge

Fellow in Bioengineering
Imperial College London
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Dr Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro

Fellow in Bioengineering
Imperial College London
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Professor Richard Kitney

Professor in Bioengineering
Imperial College London
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