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Revision as of 14:28, 7 September 2018
Team Members
Alon Barshap
Team Captain
Just a year ago Alon was only a student with a dream. He wanted Herbew U to take part in the an international synthetic biology competition called iGEM. Nobody around him had heard it of it, but he wouldn’t give up. He pushed the University, students, and advisors until we had team and initial funding. Since things got moving, he took over as team captain, and had led us to where we are today.
Degree: Plant Science and Biotechnology
Special skills:
Endless drive and optimism
Literary Research Expert
Things that keep him up at night:
Unfinished to do lists
Meetings with CEOs and Faculty
How do mermaids breath under water?
Lior Badash
Team Captain
Lior was the second person to join the journey from library meetings to Boston. He played a huge role in getting our team off the ground and creating the infrastructure for our team to flourish. As team captain he has he has brought out the best in our team members. Even as he was running the team, he found ways to organize awesome projects like the livestream and lab safety poetry contest.
Degree: Agroecology and Biotechnology
Special skills:
Tech Spec Expert
Can go 37 hours without sleep
Things that keep him up at night:
Creating to do lists
3D Printing for our community project
Will fungi unseat humans as the
most intelligent lifeform on earth?
Eliya Milshtein
Head of PR and Community Project
From participation in her first iGEM meeting, Eliya has played a dominant role in the group throughout all stages of its development. Overseeing the PR and fundraising has been no small task, and Eliya has handled it with resilience and grace. Additionally, Eliya headed up our Inter-lab team, securing our bronze medal. Always bringing outside the box thinking to the table, she has continuously pushed out team forward.
Degree: Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Special skills:
Pro Level Pipetting
Blackbelt in video editing
Blackbelt in PowerPoint
Things that keep her up at night:
Emails that need replies
iGEM team budget
If a cells has GFP, but no one can see it,
does it really fluoresce?
Amichai BK
Student Research Leader
From our first brainstorming session, Amichai was pushing for a project in Bioremediation. Through perseverance and flexibility his ideas evolved into our current project on TCDD. Since we started wet work, he has spent most of his time in the lab. In addition to managing the team members in the lab, he lead the initial vector cloning effort. Though he has contributed to other aspects of the project, its hard to get him out of his lab coat, and away from the yeast.
Degree: Agroecology and Biotechnology
Special skills:
Yeast Whisperer
Excel Wizard
Things that keep him up at night:
Mislabled tubes
Did I leave samples in the PCR cycler?
How many enzymes does it take to
skrew in a light bulb?
Lior Shachar
Research Liason
Lior joined the team in January, and hit the ground running. Lior is our go to guy for information on any subject relating to the research. He has founded and kept corrispondence with leading researchers around the world to help push our lab work forward. Lior has also interviewed predominant resarchers about TCDD and genetic engineering in the framework of our livestreams and human practices projects.
Degree: Agroecology
Special skills:
24 hour turnaround on ANY question
Fantastic Phraseologist
Things that keep him up at night:
Uneditied Documents
Gloabal GMO Regulations
Should I host my own late night TV show?
Aliza Fedorenko
Plant Engineer
Aliza has contiuously played a key role both in the lab, and outside of it. She was our lab safety tzar- making sure we all made it to Boston in one peice. Additionally, She headed our Arabidopsis engineering team, and helped bring our project closer to real world applications. When shes not in the lab growing plants, Aliza is designing graphics for everything including our poster and wiki.
Degree: Agroecology and Biotechnology
Special skills:
Green thumb
Graphics Guru
Things that keep her up at night:
Everything
Growth cell humidity levels
Should I buy a chem hood for my kitchen?