Team:Czech Republic/Team

The IOD inventors


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Our team is made up of engineers first. Biologists and students of medicine complete us. We were brought together by the Georgiev Lab whose engineering and innovation philosophy set the bar for all ideas and activities. We strive to make synthetic biology more comprehensible and bearable to engineers. This is the first iGEM team from the Czech Republic, hence the name. In a country where synthetic biology still lacks footing, we are outsiders in all of our respective departments. This brings us close together to a single lab from multiple corners of our country. In the months of hard work on the IOD band, our own band of friends and lab geeks emerged.

The Team

Jan Bejvl Martin Ciencala Hynek Kasl Veronika Kolejáková Jiří Louda Václav Pelíšek Anna Sosnová

Advisors

Jiří Fatka Pavel Fikar Kateřina Pěchotová Tereza Puchrová Pavel Zach

Instructors

Daniel Georgiev Eduard Janeček

The Team

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Jan Bejvl


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Martin Cienciala

Martin is a Molecular Biologist by degree, who has always gravitated towards the field of Synthetic Biology. He is currently a student at the Charles University in Prague where he gained more than two years of experience of laboratory and research work. His positive nature does not allow for the possibility of failure, which might actually make the lab experiments work well. He is the main enthusiast of developing our technology into a commercial product.

Martin is the leader of Module 3 and the one performing microfluidic experiments.

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Hynek Kasl

Hynek Kasl is a graduate student with 4 years of experience in Synthetic Biology, currently enrolled in the Cybernetics graduate program at the UWB. He is driven by unexpected solutions provided by his truly interdisciplinary intuition developed through persistent work at the intersection of bioengineering, mathematics, and physics. His approach involves foundational development of ideas using rigorous mathematical analysis backed by experimental evidence.

He is the leader of Module 1. He has also worked extensively on the mathematical models used in the CeCe simulator, such as the diffusion modelling and the lattice boltzmann method.


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Veronika Kolejáková

Veronika is a tireless individual who has made an effort to work in a laboratory during her university studies as soon as possible and discovered the field of biotechnology on the way. She finished her bachelor studies in Molecular Biology at the Charles University in Prague and is transitioning to study Computing Science. She thrives in the interdisciplinary nature of iGEM and the team at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.


Veronika has worked on the Module 3 and our Human Practices.


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Jiří Louda


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Václav Pelíšek

Vaclav, or Pelda as everyone calls him, is the youngest member of our team who greatly contributed to our efforts. He not only fabricated the microfluidic chips and assisted with experiments to whoever needed a helping hand, but also built the parts of CeCe simulator essential for our project. He is currently a student of the Cybernetics bachelor program at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and focuses on Mathematics and Programming. In addition, you can always count on him on making the lab atmosphere more cheerful.

Vaclav is responsible for developing many of the CeCe simulator components, the wiki page code, making of the microfluidic chips, and experimental assistance.


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Anna Sosnová

Anna is a talented student of the Cybernetics bachelor program at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Her experience with laboratory research is not long, but she was able to quickly gain a vast amount of knowledge and skills. She is the person that you can always count on at times when others forget or are unable to perform a particular task. Her capability can be seen in the number of roles she performed ranging from Module 2 experiments, through Interlab study, to Human Practices.

Anna performed Module 2 experiments, constructed and validated the BioBricks, carried out the Interlab study, and played a major role in our Human Practices work.

Advisors

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Jiří Fatka

Jiri is a Ph.D. candidate focusing on Bioinformatics and possesses a strong background in Computer Science. He is an extremely diligent person who is enthusiastic about sharing his knowledge with younger and less experienced students. We have a beautiful wiki page and an accurate and reliable simulator thanks to his advice, guidance and unbeatable knowledge.


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Pavel Fikar

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Kateřina Pěchotová

Kateřina has a rounded background and years of experience in Molecular Biology. She is the important person thanks to which our lab functions and for that we are very grateful. Kateřina not only made sure that there was enough equipment, media, and everything else in the lab but also advised students working on Module 2 in their efforts to build synthetic receptors and corresponding signals.

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Tereza Puchrová

Tereza is a PhD student on Department of Cybernetics, UWB in Pilsen. She joined Georgiev lab four years ago in its early years and she has been involved in several projects from the field of synthetic biology since then. Recently, she has been working on methods of regulation of yeast pheromone pathway.

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Pavel Zach

Pavel is a PhD student, involved in the synthetic biology at the UWB from the earliest days. During these years, he contributed to several SynBio projects at the [http://www.zcu.cz/en/ UWB] and [http://www.upv.es/ UPV]. His main goal is to bring the standardization and design methodology from engineering into synthetic biology. During the summer, he provided literature and advice regarding chimeric receptors and synthetic pheromones and supervised the BioBrick construction.

Instructors

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Daniel Georgiev


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Eduard Janeček