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Anastasia Nicolov is going into her third year at the University of Washington, studying Bioengineering and Violin Performance. She has acted as the Project Manager for this year’s iGEM team, helping with administration, fundraising, and educational outreach, as well as performing experiments for both the auxin detection pathway and the paper platform. Outside of iGEM, Anastasia is passionate about her research in biomaterials and her volunteer work in STEM outreach programs through the BioE department and her Tau Beta Pi chapter. She is also an avid performer in multiple local orchestras and chamber groups. After her undergraduate work, Anastasia plans to pursue a career as a physician.

Caroline Cannistra is a rising senior majoring in Bioengineering and Applied Computational and Mathematical Sciences. She is on the computational team and worked on the team wiki and on computational models of various project elements. She was also involved in the team’s outreach work at many elementary schools and UW Engineering Discovery Days. Her academic interests include synthetic biology, theoretical biology, bioinformatics, and programming. She enjoys knitting and singing in choirs.

David Younger is a 4th-year PhD student in the bioengineering department. He completed his undergraduate work at Rice University and now works in the Klavins lab. This year, he was an adviser for the iGEM team, helping with project planning, teaching concepts and techniques, and troubleshooting experiments. Besides lab work, he has a passion for the outdoors, enjoying hiking, climbing, and backpacking in his free time.

Elizabeth Oestreich is a rising senior working towards a degree in biology, with an emphasis in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. Originally hailing from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Elizabeth worked mostly on fundraising, project planning, and outreach for the iGEM team. In her spare time, she enjoys reading and playing games with her kids. In the future, she plans to pursue a career as a genetic counselor.

Dr. Eric Klavins is an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received a B.M. in Music in 1992 and a B.S. in computer science in 1996 from San Francisco State University. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering in 1999 and 2001 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 2001 to 2003 he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Control and Dynamical Systems Department at the California Institute of Technology where he worked with Richard Murray. In 2003 Eric was hired in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA and received tenure in 2009. He holds adjunct appointments in Computer Science and Engineering and in Bioengineering and is the Director for the UW Center for Synthetic Biology. Until approximately 2008, Klavins' research was primarily in computer science and control systems, focusing on stochastic processes, robotics and self-assembly. At about this time, he learned the basics of genetic engineering of the next few years switched entirely fields to synthetic biology and now runs an interdisplinary group of engineers, biologists, experimentalists, and theorists -- all focused on engineering life. His current projects include synthetic multicellular systems with engineered bacteria and yeast, modeling and design for synthetic multicellular systems, and laboratory automation.

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