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Meet the Team

Xiangyi Fang

Xiangyi Fang is a sophomore majoring biology. Her favorite lab work is pipetting, and her lifetime goal is to get every single drop out of pipette tips. In her spare time she is usually wandering around Williamsburg finding antique stores. She enjoys chopping vegetables and changing wallpapers.

Ethan Jones

Ethan is a senior majoring in Biology and Computational & Applied Mathematics & Statistics and is the student leader of this year's iGEM team. In his spare time, he enjoys looking at overly niche memes, reading extremely specific genres of fiction, playing video games, and browsing Wikipedia.

Jessica Laury

Jessica Laury is a senior studying biology and business. She was this years outreach coordinator. In her free time she enjoys naming inanimate objects and loving on any animals close enough to pet. In lab her favorite activity is colony PCR.

Lillian Parr

Lillian Parr is a wet lab team member majoring in biology. She is a sophomore from Chevy Chase, Maryland. In her free time, Lillian is a part of a contemporary dance company. Lillian's favorite things to do in lab are freezing cells in liquid nitrogen and plating E. coli with glass beads.

Stephanie Do

Stephanie Do is a sophomore majoring in biology. She is a firm advocate of “positive vibes only” and believes the lab needs to visit Tropical Smoothie more. In her free time she is either sleeping or getting gains. Her favorite lab activity is watching netflix while doing colony PCRs.

Julia Urban

Julia Urban is a sophomore who is pushing off declaring her major to the very last second. She enjoys overpriced specialty coffees and the Twilight Saga (movies, not books).

Adam Oliver

Adam Oliver is a sophomore who is majoring in CAMS-Mathematical biology and minoring in Computer Science. He believes that gel extraction protocols are based off of higher dimensional magic, and extra wash steps will appease the being who grants good concentrations and purity ratios. He likes to listen to podcasts and music whenever feasibly possible. His favorite lab activity is performing gel extractions, as he hopes this will bring about higher DNA concentrations and purities.

Yashna Verma

Yashna Verma is a sophomore majoring in Biology and minoring in Chemistry. She is a member of the wet lab team and also coded the wiki. In her free time, she enjoys doing Bhangra (a form of Indian dance) and loves watching movies. Some of her favorite TV shows include White Collar, Psych, and Grey’s Anatomy. She really enjoys playing with puppies and is obsessed with dark chocolate. In lab, one of her favorite things to do is load a gel.

Tinh Son

Sculpted from the five elements, Tinh is trekking through his 15th grade with equanimity and is fully aware of his impending adulthood. He does math, and loves staying hydrated to maintain good skin tone. He does not work in the lab because thermalcyclers and other lab machines create terrible background noise (although he admits his fascination with pipetting unknown substances, which he believes is just all witchcraft). As for future job, Tinh really hopes that he does not have to code in a cubicle. He still needs to find a favorite pastimes.

Chengwu Shen

Chengwu is a senior major in Mathematics and Minoring in Computer Science. He likes doing different kinds of mathematical simulations and modeling, especially about Operations Research and Differential Equations. He used to play basketball and running before he broke his ankle. Now he does simple workouts.

Hanmi Zou

This is Hanmi Zou, she is a Junior majoring in Applied Mathematics and Psychology. Her favorite part of math is modeling, and last semester Chengwu and her generated an algorithm to optimize the matching between incoming freshman and pre-major advisors. For Psych, her favorite part is cognitive psychology. She loves all spicy foods, cats, and Fridays. During her free time, she like to get enough sleep.

Dr. Saha

Dr. Margaret Saha is a Chancellor Professor of Biology at the College of William and Mary with affiliate appointments in the Neuroscience Program and the Department of Applied Science. She completed a Ph.D in the History of Science from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from the University of Virginia. She joined the faculty of the Biology Department at the College of William and Mary in 1993 where she has taught Developmental Biology, Introductory Biology, Phage Lab, Freshmen Genomics Lab, as well as upper level seminars in bioinformatics, synthetic biology, and developmental neurobiology.

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-         <div class="text">Dr. Margaret Saha is a Chancellor Professor of Biology at the College of William and Mary with affiliate appointments in the Neuroscience Program and the Department of Applied Science.  She completed a Ph.D in the History of Science from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from the University of Virginia. She joined the faculty of the Biology Department at the College of William and Mary in 1993 where she has taught Developmental Biology, Introductory Biology, Phage Lab, Freshmen Genomics Lab, as well as upper level seminars in bioinformatics, synthetic biology, and developmental neurobiology. Dr. Saha has had a longstanding interest in developing novel approaches to engage and retain students in the sciences, particularly members of underrepresented minorities, and has been the Program Director for five consecutive Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Education grants to the College of William and Mary and has also served as a member of the Executive Board for Beckman Scholars Program. As the mother of five children, she has been actively involved in disseminating appropriate research into the high school classroom and routinely offers summer “update” courses for local teachers to keep them abreast of topics and techniques in contemporary life science. For the past five years, she has served as the faculty advisor for the William and Mary iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) team – the largest competition for synthetic biology worldwide – a team that has won several international prizes.  Her research focuses on understanding the molecular genetic mechanisms underlying early embryonic plasticity of the developing nervous system, specifically the processes by which embryos respond to and recover from perturbations—genetic, physical, and environmental. She has mentored over 150 undergraduates in her research laboratory with many students serving as co-authors on peer-reviewed papers and presenting their research at national meetings. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Various awards include a Presidential Faculty Fellowship from the National Science Foundation and a Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award.</div>
+         <div class="text">Dr. Margaret Saha is a Chancellor Professor of Biology at the College of William and Mary with affiliate appointments in the Neuroscience Program and the Department of Applied Science.  She completed a Ph.D in the History of Science from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from the University of Virginia. She joined the faculty of the Biology Department at the College of William and Mary in 1993 where she has taught Developmental Biology, Introductory Biology, Phage Lab, Freshmen Genomics Lab, as well as upper level seminars in bioinformatics, synthetic biology, and developmental neurobiology. </div>
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