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          'With more and easier access to high-calorie
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          |          <a href="#">March 26th</a>
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Revision as of 15:46, 20 June 2009

uOttawa IGEM2009

uOttawa IGEM2009

The team

We are a team consisting of 1 scientific advisors and 14 undergraduate students from the University of Ottawa. This is the second year that the University of Ottawa has recruited a team to participate in the iGem competition. Our team members have a variety of backgrounds and areas of expertise. Feel free to take a look at our team page to find out more about us.

Tech museum on the 5th of May

   

|March 26th


Who we are



Advisors:

  • Advisor 1: Mentor for all
  • Advisor 2: Our favorite
  • Grad Student 1: Our leader


Undergrads:

  • Student 1: Sleepyhead
  • Student 2: Math nerd
  • Student 3: Is going to save the world
  • Student 4: Loves iGEM
  • Student 5: A normal student... or(r) am I?
  • Student 6:
  • Student 7:


Team member 1

Team member 2

Team member 3

Team member 4

Team member 5

Team member 6

Team member 7.png

Team member 7

What we did

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University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. Canada [http://http://www.uottawa.ca/]

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