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Team

The Team We are Team Chalmers-Gothenburg, a group of students with different backgrounds but a common interest in Synthetic biology. Chalmers University is a well-known technical university in Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden located on the beautiful but rainy west coast.

The team is composed of 15 students with backgrounds in several different fields, including Biotechnology, Chemistry, Physics and Computational Science. This broad range of knowledge has given us the possibility to face challenges with different perspectives. Therefore teamwork and cooperation are of great importance for our team and every person in the team is crucial for a successful result.

To integrate the different parts of the project and to avoid miscommunication, we have deliberately chosen not to divide into groups with specific tasks. Instead most of the team members have been involved in both lab work and human practices. However, the lab work has been divided into three main groups focusing on each of our three systems. No matter how much we enjoy working in our lab, we have also arranged team building activities outside the lab almost every week which has made the summer even more fun.

Team Members

Students

Johanna Asserlind

Master in Biotechnology, age 22

Johanna is now doing her last year of Master in Biotechnology, with specialization in Tissue engineering. Science and technology have always been great interests of Johanna, especially living beings as well as experimenting with chemicals (with mixed results). In her spare time, Johanna likes to practice martial arts and yoga, read fiction novels and play music, mostly cello and drums. Johanna also enjoys movies, cooking and traveling to new places.

Alexander Branzell

Christoffer Bäckberg

Master in Biotechnology, age 22

Christoffer has finished his bachelor in biotechnology and is now continuing on the same track at master’s level. Except from a great interest in science, Christoffer has a competitive mind and is impossible to beat in anything regarding sports and games, including our team building activities. If you are looking for a movie reference, Christoffer is the guy you’re looking for.

David Dagson

Gustaf Edman

Master in Biotechnology, Age 22

Gustaf is a really competitive person. Competitions bring him both joy and motivation. This fall Gustaf has started his master’s program in biotechnology, with specialization in Biomedicine and Biotechnology. At the age of 16, Gustaf performed his first genetic modification by inserting a GFP-gene in E. coli, but the interest in biotechnology didn’t really flourish until he participated in iGEM 2014. Outside the lab Gustaf enjoys experimenting with cooking and brewing.

Johanna Tingvall Gustafsson

Biotechnology, age 21

Johanna has always been interested in biology. At age 7 the dream was to become a scientist studying ladybugs, instead she ended up studying biotechnology. She is the youngest team member and is still studying at bachelor’s level. Except from biotechnology, music and training are great interest of Johanna. She previously practiced gymnastics for many years but have now started to play rugby instead.

David Hammer

David Hansson

Master in Complex Adaptive Systems, age 21

With a background in Biotechnology, David has now chosen to continue with a master in Complex adaptive systems. David grew up outside Gothenburg but has recently moved into the city.

Max hansson

John Hellgren

Master in Biotechnology, age 24

John was born in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, but for some inexplicable reason he ended up in Gothenburg. He has recently started his first year of master in Biotechnology. On his spare time he loves exercising, especially running, and play fetch with his maine coon cat, Mimmi.

Georgia Nakos

Master in Biotechnology, age 26

Georgia grew up in a small town located on the beautiful west coast of Sweden. Working out, painting, traveling and playing the piano are a few things she takes pleasure in outside of the classroom. Whenever she has free time, she picks up a good book to read and enjoys spending time with family and friends.

Yvette Palm

Master in Biotechnology, age 26

Yvette is studying the last year of her master in biotechnology. She is deeply involved in the theatrical stage, and enjoys acting as well as being in the audience. When she has time you can find Yvette on the countryside, fishing, gathering mushrooms or simple enjoying the serenity.

Angelo Salazar

Master in Biotechnology, Age 24

Angelo is studying the second year of master in Biotechnology with specialization in biomaterials and tissue engineering. He’s been engaged in a student organization called Society for Biological Engineering which has the aim of spreading knowledge to other students about science and biotechnology. His other interests are practicing capoeira and traveling to visit family and friends. Angelo is also a real dog lover!

Sandra Ferreyra Vega

Gabriella Wåssén

Master in Biotechnology, Age 25

Gabriella has a background in chemical engineering and is now taking her master in Biotechnology. She really enjoys being in nature and has been a scout since the age of 8. Gabriella likes to engage in the different organizations of the student union and travel far and wide whenever opportunity is given. You are likely to find Gabriella at fine dinner parties wearing long evening dresses.

Supervisors

Verena Siewers

PhD

Verena is the main supervisor for the team and has been living in Gothenburg for 7 years but is originally from Germany. She has been the supervisor for the Gothenburg team since 2012. When she is not at Chalmers she tries her best to ignore the Facebook page that the team so kindly created for her earlier this year!

David Jullesson

PhD-student

David has been a supervisor for the Gothenburg team for the past 2 years and before that he was a member of the team from Linköping, Sweden. He is a great and constant support in the lab and gets to help us with all of our problems. We also want to congratulate him on getting married this summer!

Inspiration

You can look at what other teams did to get some inspiration!
Here are a few examples:

• METU Turkey
• Colombia
• Stony Brook
• OUC-China

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• Include pictures of your teammates, don’t forget instructors and advisors!
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