AlumniGEM/Mentorship/Coordinators demo
Our Directors
Alyssa Henning
After graduating from Cornell in 2011, I interned at Ginkgo BioWorks for one year. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at Penn State University.
- Hobbies: Running, playing taiko (Japanese drums), and translating clarinet skills to playing Japanese flute
Alec Lourenco
I am currently a rising senior at La Canada high school interested in synthetic biology.
- Hobbies: iOS development, drinking tea, moviegoing, attempting to sing, and, of course, writing college apps.
Our Coordinators
Furkan Bestepe
HS AUC_TURKEY iGEM 2012, 2013, 2014
I am a Student Intern in Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital until January 2016.
- Hobbies: Computer Games, Knowing about and Criticizing Movies
Ricardo Chavez
I graduated from the Biotechnology Engineering program at ITESM, Mexico. I am currently working as a Laboratory Technician at my University.
- Hobbies: playing video games (MMORPGs, RPGs, Strategy) and mixing music
Galen Gao
I am currently a rising senior at Caltech studying bioengineering.
- Hobbies: Swimming, Water Polo, pretending I can still play the violin, wasting time on Facebook
Francis Lee
I work at Mass Innovation Labs, setting up and running a molecular biology core facility (genomics and proteomics).
- Hobbies: Sailing
Nisarg Patel
I graduated from Arizona State University in 2014 and am currently a D.M.D. candidate at Harvard University.
- Hobbies: Traveling, Reading, and Cheering on Arizona Sports Teams
Dylan Webster
I currently work at Zymergen on the Factory team managing our QC processes for high-throughput strain construction. Prior to Zymergen, I was at E. & J. Gallo Winery, where I worked as a process development engineer.
- Hobbies: Songwriting, cycling, and baseball analytics