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Revision as of 01:19, 12 September 2015

UC Davis iGEM 2015

The 2015 UC Davis iGEM team is cool. We do cool things and have a cool project. Also this header doesn't necessarily have to be here but I decided to change it.


Gabriel Freund

Gabe Bio

Andrew Michelmore

Hi. I am Andrew Michelmore, a second year Electrical Engineer at Santa Clara University. I am very interested in the engineering and design of power grids, as well as in transistor organization for processors and microprocessors. I hope to pursue a career in one of these areas. I decided to join iGEM, because I was interested in the engineering approach and view iGEM has towards biology.

I contributed to the project mostly through outreach and wastewater collection. I also assisted with hardware and hardware testing.


Muntaha Samad

Muntaha BIO

Andrew Shephard

Andrew Shep BIO

Joanne Wu

Joanne BIO

Logan Vinson

Logan BIO

Dr. Justin Siegel - Advisor

University of California Davis, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and School of Medicine
My scientific efforts are focused on combining computational and experimental tools to develop a fundamental knowledge of enzyme catalysis, and applying those principles to design novel proteins of therapeutic or commercial interest. Currently I am working with an international community on the development of Rosetta computational methodology for predicting and designing macromolecular structures, interactions, and functions. Using this methodology I have completed the de novo design of enzymes capable of catalyzing chemical reactions not found in nature, such as the Diels-Alder reaction. This was followed up by working with an online community, Foldit, to further engineer these proteins for enhanced activity. Most recently I have worked on the redesign of naturally occurring enzymes for the degradation of immunogenic gluten proteins, to develop a novel CO2 fixation pathways, and design of a novel anthrax therapeutic. My current focus is on the design of novel biofuel and commodity chemical biosynthetic pathways, the development of novel therapeutics, and the general understanding of the relationship between protein sequence, structure, and function.


Dr. Ilias Tagkopoulos - Advisor

University of California Davis, Department of Computer Science and UC Davis Genome Center
My lab’s interests span a variety of topics related to evolutionary, synthetic and systems biology. We employ machine learning, graph theory, mathematical optimization, multiscale modeling and HPC simulation methods to address questions in these fields. Computational predictions are experimentally tested in our microbiology lab, where we perform laboratory evolution of microbial cultures, and we construct novel synthetic gene circuits for biotechnological applications.


Dr. Marc Facciotti - Advisor

University of California Davis, Department of Biomedical Engineering and UC Davis Genome Center
I are interested in using the tools of Systems Biology to elucidate rules of biological assembly for gene regulatory networks and in turn use this knowledge, through Synthetic Biology approaches, to build novel circuits.


Alex Carlin - Advisor

University of California Davis, Biophysics Graduate Group
carlin bio


Aaron Cohen - Advisor

University of California Davis, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Graduated from UC Davis with a degree in biomedical engineering. I hope to one-day own my own biotechnology business.


Russell Neches - Advisor

University of California Davis, Microbiology Graduate Group
Russell bio


Andrew Yao - Advisor

University of California Davis, Department of Biomedical Engineering
andrew bio