Allen Cai

From 2009.igem.org

Hi, my name is Allen Cai. In the beginning of iGEM, the only training I had prior was taking two years of biotechnology at Abraham Lincoln High School. I learned the basic techniques that most labs used, like mini prep, digestion with enzymes, running a gel, western blot, etc. I also took a cell culture class in the spring semester of my senior year at City College of San Francisco. This cell culture helped me a lot, since I had to take care of dictyostelium cells right now. My goals before iGEM is that I wanted to create drugs that can help cure/eliminate diseases. I had no idea how I would really achieve this, but it was my goal. I knew I wanted to pursue my education further into science. Science is by far the most interesting subject there is, with new scientific discoveries and ideas coming out all the time.

The Team