Moyra Chikomo
Moyra is an Electronics and Communications student in her 2nd year at the University of Kent. Moyra is our keenest team member - nothing can douse her motivation.
Raneem Jaghoub
Raneem is an Electronics and Communications student in her 1st year at the University of Kent.
Jonathan Pope
Jonathan is a Biology student in his 2nd year at the University of Kent. Great footballer (soccer) he enjoys going to the gym and playing monopoly, he loves to spend time gardening and taking care of his precious orchids and he is the newly elected vice chairman of the Canterbury Crochet Club United (CCCU).
Rob Middlewick
Rob is a Biology student in his 2nd year at the University of Kent. A very humble man, Rob is best known as the international sales representative of Amazon Kindles.When Rob isn't sailing around the country, he's hard at work in the lab, at the desk and Tesco self checkouts.
Richard Crane (aka Dave)
Richard is a rising star in the world of Biosciences. A Biomedical Science student in his 2nd year at the University of Kent, Richard has shown ingenuity and cunning in all of his day to day activities. Fun fact: he owns and knows how to operate a magnificent bbq.
Likes to hurt peoples feelings and doesn't care about the wiki.
James Aston
James is the team's physicist, he worked on the modelling and the wiki. His primary academic interests focus on evolutionary theory, particularly social evolution. A keen weightlifter, his frequent references to weights and protein shakes naturally make him the hub of enchanting conversation here at Kent iGEM.
ja403@kent.ac.uk
Katarina Pisani
Katarina is a Biomedical Science student in her 2nd year at the University of Kent. "Before one can transform bacteria, one must first transform himself"
Anna Beltrami
Icing Saboteur
Anna is a Biomedical Science student in her 2nd year at the University of Kent.
Suparna Thakali
Suparna is a Biochemistry student in her 2nd year at the University of Kent. In her spare time she is an accomplished MMA fighter.
Natalie Sloan
Natalie is a Biomedical Science student in her 2nd year at the University of Kent. In addition to her day to day wet lab work she worked on the wiki and designed the Kent team logo.
"Kaboooooom" -Alice Tomlinson
Alice is a Biomedical Science student in her 2nd year at the University of Kent. She worked in the wet lab and wrote letters to MPs for policy and practices.
Ben Blakeman
Ben is a PhD student in the School of Biosciences. When he is not at the gym, he enjoys teaching and entertaining students with his bubbly personality.
Morena
Morena is a PhD student in the School of Biosciences, she regularly helped the wet lab team.
Dr Wei-Feng Xue Dr Wei-Feng Xue joined the school of Biosciences in 2011 as Lecturer in Chemical biology, and he is now Senior Lecturer in Chemical biology since 2014. He received his PhD degree in Physical Chemistry on research regarding protein-protein/protein-ligand interactions in Prof. Sara Linse’s group at Lund University in Sweden (2006). He then went on to do postdoctoral research concerning the mechanism and the biological impact of amyloid assembly in Prof. Sheena Radford’s laboratory at the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology in the University of Leeds (2006-2011). His research interests include supramolecular protein assembly, protein folding and misfolding, amyloid and prions, and AFM imaging.
Wei-Feng is a member of the
Kent Fungal Group, the
Protein Form and Function Group and
the Centre for Molecular Processing
Dr Mark Shepherd Dr Mark Shepherd joined the School of Biosciences in 2011. He was born in England, was brought up in North Wales, and subsequently studied Biochemistry at the University of Sheffield (1996-1999). He stayed in the Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology to undertake a PhD with Professor Neil Hunter FRS (1999-2003), where he developed his interest in the enzymology and spectroscopy of chlorophyll and haem biosynthesis. After completing his PhD studies, he conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Harry Dailey at the University of Georgia (2003-2005), where his research focussed on the terminal enzymes of haem biosynthesis. This was followed by a move back to the University of Sheffield in 2005 to take up a postdoctoral position with Prof. Robert Poole, where he developed interests in E. coli respiration, globin proteins, and the response of bacteria to nitric oxide. A subsequent position at the University of Queensland (2010-2011) with Prof. Mark Schembri focussed on nitric oxide stress in Uropathogenic E. coli.
In 2011 Mark moved to the University of Kent, where he is a Lecturer in Microbial Biochemistry and a member of the
Microbial Pathogenesis Group.
Dr Gianluca Marcelli
Dr Gianluca Marcelli is a lecturer in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts. In the last 9 years of his research career he has been developing mathematical models for biological systems. He helped the modeling team and it was his idea to create a Monte Carlo simulation.
Dr Mark Wass Mark joined the School of Biosciences in October 2012. He obtained his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge University in 2000 followed by a Masters in Computing at Imperial College London. After a few years working in Industry as an IT consultant Mark studied for a PhD with Prof Mike Sternberg at Imperial (2004-2008) and continued onto a post-doctoral position in the group until 2011. In 2011 Mark was awarded a FEBS Long Term Fellowship to work in the group of Alfonso Valencia at the CNIO (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain).
Mark's research interests are in Structural Bioinformatics particularly the analysis and prediction of protein function, structure and interactions. He is also interested in using such approaches to analyse genetic variation and identify the functional effects that are associated with disease.
Mark is a member of the
Cytogenomics and Bioinformatics Group.
