Charles Calvet Junior at Stanford University, half synthetic biologist, half underground electronic music aficionado. He worked primarily on the bioHYDRA project.

Danny Greenberg is a junior studying biology at Brown University. This summer, he worked to optimize gene ligation using the CRATER method.

Daniel Kunin is a Junior at Brown University majoring in Applied Mathematics. He spent the summer working on polystyrene synthesis. As the hairiest and most rugged of the three Dans, he also led the group in a variety of outdoor adventures.

Daniel Xiang is a Junior at Brown University studying Applied Math – Biology concentration. Dan’s primary projects were polystyrene synthesis and modeling.

Erica Lieberman recently graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Bioengineering and was one of the co-captains of the 2015 SB iGEM team. This summer, she worked primarily on P(3HB) synthesis, the lysis system, and general chaos reduction.

Forrest Tran completed his first year at Brown University and is now at Olin College of Engineering. Forrest built the team’s wiki, grew cellulose sheets, and experimented with folding thermoplastics with heat.

Jack Takahashi is a junior at Stanford University majoring in Biology. His main projects this summer included helping develop the CRATER method and researching uses of biOrigami in space.

Kirsten Thompson is a small but mighty junior majoring in Bioengineering at Stanford University. By day, Kirsten terminates unwanted ligation byproducts using the CRATER method; by night, she explores the nature the Bay Area has to offer. Talk to her about her work on increasing diversity in STEM or her plans for medical school.

Thai Nguyen recently graduated from Stanford University with a degree in bioengineering and was one of the co-captains of the 2015 SB iGEM team. This summer, he worked primarily on P(3HB) synthesis, the lysis system, and cellulose binding domains.

Tina Ju is a sophomore at Stanford University majoring in (probably) Bioengineering. This summer, she worked on turning bacterial cellulose into usable sheets and worked on our team’s Outreach and Human Practices.

Tyler Devlin is a Junior at Brown University majoring in Applied Math – Biology concentration. He worked on polystyrene synthesis and modeling, and was the principal poster designer.

Dr. Lynn J. Rothschild, an astrobiologist and synthetic biologist at NASA Ames Research Center, has mentored five wonderful iGEM teams in her lab including Brown-Stanford 2011, Stanford-Brown 2012, 2013, 2015, and StanfordBrownSpelman 2014.

Dr. Gary Wessel

Dr. Kosuke Fujishima, Kosuke is a research scientist at NASA Ames working as a Synthetic Astrobiologist, tackling Origins of Life questions using molecular biology as a tool kit.

Dr. Ivan Glaucio Paulino Lima

Ryan Kent

Ryan was a member of the 2011 Brown/Stanford iGEM team and graduated from Stanford in 2012 with an M.S. in Biology. This is his third year as an iGEM mentor and as a member of Dr. Lynn Rothschild’s lab. When he’s not whipping the team into shape, he enjoys writing about himself in the third person and surfing. -Ryan

Dr. Joseph Shih

Kendrick Wang

Griffin McCutcheon

Griffin McCutcheon is a mission support engineer at NASA Ames focusing on synthetic biology for satellite missions. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University with a degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

Evie Pless

Jesica Urbina-Naverrete

Simon Vecchioni

Toshitaka Matsubara, Toshi is a Ph.D student at Tokyo Tech University who is working on using Synthetic biology to domesticate Halophiles for future Mars mission.