Team:HebrewU/Team

HebrewU HujiGEM 2018 HebrewU HujiGEM 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.