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Meet the HKUST-Rice Team!

Cheung Ming Fung (Eric) Year 3 Biochemistry and Cell Biology Being a responsible team leader, Eric devoted lots of his time on iGEM. He is diligent and is willing to spend time to keep track on each modules’ progress. (EVERY SINGLE STEP, to be precise.) While performing lab tasks, Eric is extremely focused and serious. However, the other side of him has a hidden sense of humor. He can keep his blank chipmunk-like expressions while suddenly coming up a one-liner that makes everyone burst into laughter. He also has a STRONG obsession with riboregulator.

Ng Siu Wang (Edward) Year 3 Biotechnology Edward is a gentleman. When you feel confused and discouraged by challenges, he will always say it is alright. By looking at his confident smile, you will suddenly have a feeling of things not going that bad at all. You do not know why he can remain calm in the face of adversity and is so considerate to his teammates, asking them frequently if they need any helps. It is great to have Edward, who is like a wise man, in our team!

Rina Sakata Year 2 Biochemistry and Cell Biology A highly perseverant and smart teammate who active engage in the project planning and laboratory work. But if you are really working with her then you might see her as a girl that brings lots of vitality to the team. Her open-hearted character together with her always-on smiley face make her easily approachable to everyone. So, be ready to be impressed for her uniquely cheerful personality at the first glance.

Khandaker Samiha Year 2 SSCI (Undeclared) Samiha is a really sweet girl and you can feel it especially when she smiles at you and blink her eyes. She is in the expression platform group where she ran a lot of gel and did a lot of checking to make sure every step is reliable and successful. She is also in the graphic design group, where she designed our team logo and other beautiful works with the other girls. Just like the color of the clothes that she loves to wear, she is a bright girl and makes you want to smile back at her!

Cheng Kar On (Karen) Year 2 SSCI (Undeclared) Karen works very hard in the lab. She is among the earliest who go to lab and always the last to leave. She works carefully to make sure things are going smoothly.

Siu Men Yi (Mona) Year 3 Biochemistry and Cell Biology Mona is an intelligent graphic designer for our team logos and T-shirt, especially profession in re-filling colors of logos using painting software. She is very patient and helpful in modifying the wiki slider background-color in every trial. While doing lab work, she highly focuses on her work to make sure everything goes right. However, the only point that everyone urges her to improve on is her eating speed. She eats really slowly and everyone has to wait for her.

Lara Pferdehirt(Mona) Year 4 Bioengineering Lara stayed in Texas to study bioengineering, but she tries to sneak off to her second-home, Istanbul, every chance she gets. Lara spends most of her time in lab engineering proteins. She can flow like no other, flow cytometry that is. Outside of school and lab, Lara enjoys spending time with friends, going on adventures around Houston (mainly in search of new places to eat), and watching Netflix. She needs coffee to function, and whenever there’s a cat around she finds a way to befriend it, making her a self-proclaimed cat whisperer.