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Team

In this page you can introduce your team members, instructors, and advisors.

Inspiration

You can look at what other teams did to get some inspiration!
Here are a few examples:

• METU Turkey
• Colombia
• Stony Brook
• OUC-China

What should this page contain?

• Include pictures of your teammates, don’t forget instructors and advisors!
• You can add a small biography or a few words from each team member, to tell us what you like, and what motivated you to participate in iGEM.
• Take team pictures! Show us your school, your lab and little bit of your city.
• Remember that image galleries can help you showcase many pictures while saving space.

Students

Derek Gasaway

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Wiki help

3nd-year undergrad majoring in Biology/Computer Science

Curious about web design and mathematical modelling. Also does archery.

Spirit animals/organisms: Tierra 0080.gen

Kevin Yang

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Part-time member. I helped come up with much of the initial idea and conceptual theory behind the project, and did a lot of the background research. I designed lots and lots and lots of primers. I helped with troubleshooting.

3nd year undergrad. Tripling in Biology, Biochemistry, and Medieval Torture Devices. Pre-med represent.

Reading books, playing piano, and playing violin is basically all I do when I’m not in lab and don’t have other work.

Spirit animals/organisms: A water bear. They look really cool and they’ll actually survive when the apocalypse comes.

Mansi Chandra

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Full-time worker and team secretary - jack of all trades from pouring plates, designing primers, running with gels, and making best friends with western blots

2nd year undergrad, pre(historic)-med, double major in biology and future Alan Grant

Badminton, and watching Bollywood films is what I do when I’m not in lab or envisioning a giant lizard-like future

Spirit animals/organisms: A Dinosaur!

Advisers

Dr. Michael Rust

Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Faculty Adviser

Dr. James Shapiro

Dr. Jennifer Moran

Dr. Bryan Dickinson

Dr. Eileen Dolan

Dr. Allan Drummond

Dr. Andrey Rzhetsky

Dr. Kevin White

Vivian Choi

MSTP Adviser

Danny Chan

Graduate Adviser

Justin Chew

MSTP Adviser

Like our team Facebook page, Genehackers@UChicago!

Questions? Comments? Send us an email!