Team:BNDS CHINA/Team

Team Members

Zhuoyi Yang (Joyce):

I’m Zhuoyi Yang from IB program, and the team leader of this year’s team. I was also a team member in last year’s team and I fell in love with the iGEM adventure. In this year, I organised the team member selection and gave training to the new iGEMer in winter holiday. I guided team members to brainstorm projects and separated them to groups to research more deeply on each module. To give better instruction to our team, I invited Cheng Li from Peking University as our instructor, and was in charge of communicating between teachers and the team. I planned for the summer holiday experiment as well as human practice and tried my best to borrow necessary equipments from some labs. Moreover, I distributed tasks to team members in presentation preparation and wiki writing process. It is a great pleasure to worked with my team mates and I hope to be a lifelong iGEMer.

Xilin Yang (Sallina):

I am Xilin Yang, a Grade 12 student from IB program. As a student leader in our team, I participated in recruiting and selecting new team members to start a team. In the stage of research, I selected information about antimicrobial peptides that target on A. hydrophila but are not harmful to E. coli. During summer vacation, I participated in wet lab, including Interlab, constructing parts, and extracting and testing the peptides. In September and October, I took part in planning presentation, writing and revising wiki, and designing poster. iGEM gives me a platform to preview a life for research in lab and my partners' effortless hardwork in the project gives me courage to finish the process.

Jingxu Yan (Levana):

I’m Levana, a team member of 2018 BNDS China. Now I in 11 IB programs and I am 15 years old. I take charge in the wet lad, human practice, and some visual creation of our team. I love biology, and by joining the iGEM competition, I realize that theories are different from experiments, some time we need to do a lot of trials in order to great the right solution.

Zishi Wu (Purple):

My name is Purple, and I’m in Grade 12 IB program. In our early research period, I focused on searching the suitable Antimicrobial peptides to kill the A. Hydrophila. Later I mostly participated in the InterLab, wet lab, and the collaboration with other teams. I also helped composing our wiki pages and draw some of our illustrations. Thanks to iGEM, I am now familiar with a series of advanced bio technologies.

Guanghua Hao (Charles):

I’m Charles, a team member of 2018 BNDS China. I am in Grade 12 AP program. I advocated with my teammates a school fund for scientific research; I worked with the experiment group at the different labs to learn techniques of synthesis and analysis; I also designed the pamphlets for the human practice portion of our project.

Yuchen Yang (Jason):

I am Yuchen Yang, a student of AP program. As a senior student intending to major in molecular medicine, I have been working on many tutorial processes in using Snapgene with other junior students, including fragment insertion by Gibson Assembly and restriction cloning, designing primers for sequencing and bacterial colony PCR, etc. Besides, I have been involved in many experimental processes of plasmid construction where common experimental techniques of molecular biology including but not limited to PCR, gel electrophoresis & recycle are employed. This entire iGEM project happens to be one of the best experiences that I had in my life and I highly appreciate that.

Zitian Ye (Kelly):

I am Zitian Ye. Aside from collecting information regarding antimicrobial peptides, I participated mainly in wet lab and human practice. The majority of my lab works were demonstration: measuring the MIC (minimum inhibitory concentration) of antimicrobial peptides as well as the efficiency of different types of promoters. For the human practice part, I organized the visit to the fish farm to learn about aquaculture, sold our project-related products to popularize synthetic biology, and interviewed merchants selling ornamental fish.

Yukun Xi (Michael):

I'm Michael, a team member of 2018 BNDS China and a student in Grade 11 Alevel program. In our team, the main role of me is an EXP. I did lots of experiments, and went to several labs. What's more, I also participated in many HP activities, like held scientific lecture, for the goal of publicizing the synthetic biology.