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Our team consists of 13 students who have dedicated their summer to work on the iGEM project. The numerous late night meetings organised from the beginning of the year 2015 were the perfect opportunity to create an optimal atmosphere to discuss the possible iGEM projects and to boost the team spirit. The team consists of students from 5 different faculties with different backgrounds, perspectives, nationalities, and languages. The diversity of the team gives us the strength and widens our horizons. We are all bound by our enthusiasm for science and research, and each of us possesses the courage to face big challenges. Additionally, we are supported by previous iGEM’mers and employees from various levels of the KU Leuven University. The previous KU Leuven teams have set high standards to benchmark ourselves against. We will do our best to carry on this trend in the 2015 iGEM competition!

Astrid

Eline

Frederik

Ines

Jasper

Laetitia

Astrid
Education and Outreach

Master in Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Our busy bee

Eline
Ethics and Human Practices

Bachelor in Chemical Engineering

Keep calm and build a pattern

Frederik
Economics and Business

Master in Business Engineering

The business tycoon

Ines
Communication and Media

Master in Molecular Biology

Spam, spam, spam!

Jasper
Wet Lab and Modeling

Bachelor in Bioscience Engineering

Matlab is always on my side

Laetitia
Wet Lab

Bachelor in Bioscience Engineering

Let the bacteria grow!

Laura
Sponsors

Master in Biomedical Sciences

Our beautiful sales lady

Laurens
Graphics and Art

Master in Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Let's photoshop everything

Leen
Wiki

Bachelor in Bioscience Engineering

The answer to everything is: try Google

Moritz
Modeling

Master in Mathematical Engineering

Wants lots and lots of data

Ovia
Inter Team Manager

Master in Biophysics, Biochemistry and Biotechnology

The center of everything

Thomas
Logistics

Master in Nanoscience Engineering

Before one can transform bacteria, one must first transform himself

Vincent
Literature

Master in Biochemistry and Biotechnology

First on the screen, now in real life

Astrid does many things, she started as a bookworm who shaped our plasmid, worked in the lab, made plans for the symposium and visited schools to explain children about synthetic biology.

Eline started working on gaining sponsors for our project. Then she made the collaboration with Toulouse possible by creating a diffusion model in COMSOL. In the end she helped with the wiki.

Frederik's background in economics made him the perfect guy to acquire sponsors for our project. He created the survey. He explored several applications and wrote an economical report about it.

Ines discovered the world of social media to inform people about our project. When she isn't updating the public she can be found in the lab or behind her books.

Jasper is the brains behind our internal model. Apart from modeling he found time to invent, create and adjust our card game.

Laetitia delegated the lab work, planned frequent meetings, wrote new protocols and filled in our lab safety form. Additionally she provided general texts for the wiki.

Convincing people and companies to invest in our project became Laura's personal challenge, this included making the sponsor brochure and folder. Beside you can also find her in the lab.

Laurens started as our personal Photoshop hero who somehow still found time to 'GO TO THE LAB'. So he became our part-time Photoshop hero and part-time lab buddy.

With her background in web design, Leen was the ideal member to create our wiki. The whole summer she spent time on creating new pages, fixing mistakes and expanding our wiki.

Moritz was the first of our model team to finish his colony level model. He also contributed PDE-solvers and helped getting the wiki ready in time, the Outreach section in particular.

Ovia had the difficult task to ensure communication within the team. When she isn't working in the lab she provides us with beautiful images for the stickers and our wiki.

Thomas is our hybrid model specialist. He was the connection between lab and modeling so all the necessary information was passed trough.

In the beginning Vincent was the designated bookworm who browsed trough literature at full speed. When enough information was gathered he used this knowledge in the lab.

Laura

Laurens

Leen

Moritz

Ovia

Thomas

Vincent

Astrid

Eline

Frederik

Ines

Astrid
Education and Outreach

Astrid does many things, she started as a bookworm who shaped our plasmid, worked in the lab, made plans for the symposium and visited schools to explain children about synthetic biology.

Eline
Ethics and Human Practices

Eline started working on gaining sponsors for our project. Then she made the collaboration with Toulouse possible by creating a diffiusion model in COMSOL. In the end she helped with the wiki.

Frederik
Economics and Business

Frederik's background in economics made him the perfect guy to acquire sponsors for our project. He created the survey. He explored several applications and wrote an economical report about it.

Ines
Communication and Media

Ines discovered the world of social media to inform people about our project. When she isn't spamming people she can be found in the lab or behind her books.

Leen

Moritz

Ovia

Thomas

Vincent

Leen
Wiki

With her background in web design, Leen was the ideal member to create our wiki. The whole summer she spent time on creating new pages, fixing mistakes and expanding our wiki.

Moritz
Modeling

Moritz was the first of our model team to finish his colonial model. He discovered the wiki when he put his findings on-line. This allowed him to write most of our human practices pages.

Ovia
Inter Team Manager

Ovia had the difficult task to ensure communication within the team. When she isn't working in the lab she provides us with beautiful images for the stickers and our wiki.

Thomas
Logistics

Thomas is our hybrid model specialist. He was the connection between lab and modeling so all the necessary information was passed trough.

Vincent
Literature

In the beginning Vincent was the designated bookworm who browsed trough literature at full speed. When enough information was gathered he used this knowledge in the lab.

Jasper

Laetitia

Laura

Laurens

Jasper
Wet Lab and Modeling

Jasper is the brains behind our internal model. Apart from modeling he found time to invent, create and adjust our card game.

Laetitia
Wet Lab

Laetitia delegated the lab work, planned frequent meetings, wrote new protocols and filled in our safety form. Additionally she provided general texts for the wiki.

Laura
Sponsors

Convincing people and companies to invest in our project became Laura's personal challenge, this included making the sponsor brochure and folder. Beside you can also find her in the lab.

Laurens
Graphics and Art

Laurens started as our personal Photoshop hero who somehow still found time to 'GO TO THE LAB'. So he became our part-time Photoshop hero and part-time lab buddy.

Team movie

We made a movie to introduce to you our team and our project. Check it out!


Contact

Address: Celestijnenlaan 200G room 00.08 - 3001 Heverlee
Telephone: +32(0)16 32 73 19
Email: igem@chem.kuleuven.be