Meet our team
The Peking iGEM 2015 Team, consisting of future biologists, doctors, chemical biologists, an engineer, and an applied mathematician, has grown into a professional and passionate team over past six months.
On this page, you can find out the information about everyone who has contributed to the project. We would like to express our special gratitude to our instructors for their continued support and encouragement. Furthermore, we would also like to acknowledge our sponsors and all the others who provided valuable advice and essential materials. Last but not least, many thanks go to all our team members, who have invested their full effort in completing the project.
Members
ZHANG Yihao
ZHANG Yihao, a former iGEMer of Peking 2013, is now leading the Peking iGEM team 2015. Coming from the College of Life Sciences, Yihao wants to devote all his passion and energy to this year's project, before his graduation next summer.
He participates in designing of the project, takes charge of troubleshooting, and arranges the experimental schedule, making sure that the whole lab function smoothly and head in the right direction.
Aye, aye, captain!
WEI Weijia
WEI Weijia is a graduate of Wuhan University, majoring in life sciences and biotechnology.
Early in the project, he is in responsible for gathering plasmid information, designing of some of the clones, and seeking appropriate substrates; then he is committing to ameliorate the detection system, that's to say, to enhance the sensitivity as well as to reduce the difficulty of detection.
Sometimes he helps to prepare some consumables, sometimes he helps his companions to finish their experiments.
LI Hang
LI Hang is an undergraduate from School of Physics, Peking University.
He is responsible for designing and manufacturing two kinds of devices, which are for detection of analogue electrical signal and optical signal.
Enthusiastic about technology, he has a strong belief that developments in technology can change our life and make our life better and better. He often plays the computer game FSX (Microsoft Flight Simulator) on PC. He likes flying very much. The most exciting thing for him is to land a plane on the runway smoothly.
CHENG Sida
CHENG Sida, is a junior from Peking University, majoring in Clinical Medicine.
He is in charge of Human Practice along with YE Yixuan and LIU Dongming and also works in the wet lab to construct and prepares variable plasmids. He enjoys the wonderful moment fighting for the same goal with those lovely fellows in the synthetic life world. Besides working in the lab, he enjoys cycling, photographing and studying historical geography.
As Hsi Muren said “What I can leave on the earth is only their view of my back since I have been marching toward the horizontal.”
iGEMer! Go! Go! Go!
LI Jiaofeng
LI Jiaofeng is a junior in Peking University, majoring in Chemistry. She believes life is amazing, that’s why she took part in the competition.
Besides working as the financial manager of the team, she is also responsible for designing some primers for cloning as well as the construction of the plasmids. She really likes listening to music and thinks deeply about it.
Her favourite quote was from Romain Rolland:"There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is and to love it."
LI Xiang
LI Xiang is a junior majoring in College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering. He is also interested in mathematics and life science.
He decided to take part in iGEM with his great interest in system and synthetic biology. He is in charge of constructing another kind of Mycobacterium tuberculosis sensing system, including constructing plasmids and purifying proteins.
During this period, he improved his experimental skills in molecular biology, acquired much knowledge of system and synthetic biology, and got lots of fun with it.
LIN Pingping
LIN Pingping is majoring in clinical medicine.
Early in the project she undertook the task of molecular cloning and works in wet lab, while later she was in charge of testing the luminescence intensity of split firefly luciferase fused with CRISPR system together with WANG Beining, another member from the team. She also processes the experimental data.
She extremely appreciated iGEM which gave her the chance to master lots of skills and to make friends with those who are all interested in synthetic biology.
LIU Dongming
LIU Dongming is an eight-academic year student of clinical speciality in Peking University. Unfortunately, he is just in his third year, remains a long time to be a surgeon.
He helps to accomplish the plasmid construction of the detecting target, and is responsible for human practice. As our project aims to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis, his medical background provides a clinical point of view for the diagnostic method.
He loves Chinese calligraphy and is very interested in classical Chinese literature. The whole team is worried about 'his patients' in the future, since he's easily excited about any of the funny things around him.
LIU Wenchao
LIU Wenchao is a junior at Peking University, majoring in Life Science.
She is in charge of molecular cloning of CRISPR gRNA as well as RNA scaffold together with XU Luze at the very beginning. Lately she is working on protein purification of dCas9 fusion protein with WANG Yu and LI Xiang.
She enjoys ignoring the boundary of different subjects and considering science as a whole. She always dreams of understanding life and consciousness with mathematics or physics approaches. She has been working in several labs, including IMCAS where leaves her fantastic memories (except the irregular takeouts!).
WANG Beining
WANG Beining is a junior from the school of Basic Medical Sciences. Although majoring in clinical medicine, her ultimate aim is to be a research-based doctor.
During the iGEM period, she firstly undertook the task of cloning for the dCas9-luciferase part, then in the summer time is responsible for the characterization of CRISPR-Luciferase system with LIN Pingping (Golden Pair are they two for the tests!).
She also loves music, movies and whodunits veeeeeeeeeery much! Pursuing freedom & truth and believing in optimism, she is on her way ever.
WANG Yu
WANG Yu is a junior in pharmaceutical sciences.
Participating in plasmid construction, protein purification, and wiki designing and building, she likes to describe the iGEM as a communicable disease with the syndrome of over-passionate and Circadian Rhythm Disorders.
XU Luze
XU Luze is a junior from Peking University, majoring in Mathematics.
His main work is programmed to search for the suitable guide sequences. However, early on in the project he undertook the task of constructing the nucleic acid detection system and the target plasmids with LIU Wenchao. Though he made some mistakes, he got the fundamental skills in molecular biological techniques gradually during the cooperation.
He has spent most of his time on dry lab since July, but he still took an active part in the wet lab, for his illusion to be the winner of the FTBC (filling tip box competition).
YE Yixuan
YE Yixuan is a senior in Peking University majoring in Public Health. She is also fascinated by Physics which is her second major.
And now she is responsible for human practice and part of the construction of the mathematical model. Reading is what she loves most.
ZHANG Xiaohan
ZHANG Xiaohan, Jessica, is a junior from School of Basic Medical Sciences with a double major in economics.
She is in charge of Conference of China iGEMer’s Committee and also helps in team designing and human practice.
Understanding human behaviour, both in its metabolism and from macroscopic view, attracts her so much.
Instructors
OUYANG Qi
LOU Chunbo
