Team:William and Mary/Team
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 junior majoring in Biology and Computational & Applied Mathematics & Statistics and is the student leader of this year's iGEM team. Last year he was a member of the William & Mary iGEM team, and specialized on the experimental and design portions of last year's project. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Tinh Son
Chengwu Shen
I'm a senior major in Mathematics and Minoring in Computer Science. I like doing different kinds of mathematical simulations and modeling, especially about Operations Research and Differential Equations. I used to play basketball and running before I broke my ankle. Now I do some simple workout.
Hanmi Zou
My name is Hanmi Zou, I’m a Junior majoring in App lied Mathematics and Psychology. My favourite part of math is modelling, and last semester Chengwu and I generated an algorithm to optimize the matching between incoming freshman and pre-major advisors. For Psych, my favourite part is cognitive psychology. I love all spicy food, cat, and Friday. During my free time, I like to get enough sleep.