Team:Wisconsin-Madison/Team Members

Advisors

Prof. Brian Pfleger

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Prof. Doug Weibel

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Prof. Jennie Reed

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Daniel Agnew

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Scott Walhovd

The Man. Scott is a senior majoring in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. Scott has recently discovered many strains of bacteria that produce bleach. Everyday, he comes into the lab to find his samples at peak production. Transcription is not understood yet, but the bleach production is related to a time variable as it happens overnight... every night. [back]

Undergraduates

Nate Cira

Nate is a junior majoring in Biomedical Engineering. He eats raw greenbeans. [back]

Xintong Dong

Xintong is a senior majoring in Biochemistry. [back]

Nathaniel Pantalone

Nate is a junior majoring in Chemical and Biological Engineering. [back]

Sarah Sandock

Sarah is a sophomore majoring in Biomedical Engineering and is focusing on tissue engineering. She is also minoring in Ceramic Sculpture and Japanese. [back]

Chris Schultz

Chris is a junior majoring in Chemical and Biological Engineering. [back]

Ting Zhang

Ting is a senior majoring in Biochemistry. She likes children too. Her initials (Z.T.) mean 'Pig's Head' in Chinese. [back]

Viraj Kamat

Viraj is a senior majoring in Chemical Engineering. [back]

Sean McMaster

Sean McMaster is a senior studying Biochemistry and Mathematics. Sean has been involved in biochemistry research since his freshman year. Under the direction of Dr. Doug Weibel in the Department of Biochemistry, Sean has explored correlations in bacterial genetic ancestry through bacteria shape and researched the minimal nutrients required for bacterial swarming motility. He has been an active member on the UW-Madison’s iGEM Team since its inception in 2007. Sean has also actively pursued research opportunities outside UW-Madison. In the summer of 2008, he performed bioinformatic analysis with Protein Binding Microarrays to identify binding affinities of all yeast transcription factors at Harvard Medical School in the Lab of Dr. Martha Bulyk. This past summer Sean investigated the effects of Epigallocatechin Gallate on Toll-Like Receptor expression in pursuit of an effective HIV microbicide at the Baylor College of Medicine under the guidance of Dr. Christina Nance. [back]