Kelly Robinson
Kelly Robinson is currently involved in the 2009 University of Alberta iGEM team. She is in her final year of an Honors Biochemistry program, and wishes the actively pursue molecular virology in graduate studies. In her spare time, she enjoys playing video games, Magic the Gathering, watching anime and reading (anything from the Future of Spacetime to Metamorphoses). Her favorite bands include, but are not limited to, Opeth, Tristania, Blind Guardian and Lake of Tears.
Jason "The Vet" Gardiner
Jason is a veteran of IGEM 2007 where his team the Butanerds won first place in the Energy track. Jason is currently in his fourth year of his Bachelor degree specializing in Botany. His hobbies include Softball, Beach volley ball, soccer, as well as playing the guitar and fiddling with the IGEM 2009 Wiki. Jason has applied to continue his education in grad studies at the University of Alberta in 2010. His degree in botany focuses mostly on the molecular side of plants and he hopes to use this knowledge applying synthetic biology to plants.
Amber "Tattoo" Paul
Hi, my name is Amber. I`m a Pisces, and my hobbies include beer, big men, and fast bikes or fast men and big bikes. Whatever comes first.
Andy "Ball and Chain"
Andy has a girlfriend. Enough said.
Brewster "Brewster" Laxston
Brewster is dead to us.
Chongya "Chun-Li" Niu
Chongya Niu is currently a typical premed. She works eight hour days, then studies eight more for the MCAT and caps off her evenings by reading bed time stories to the blind, and singing orphans lullabies. She also hates sleep and will do just about anything for an A... And I mean anything.
Daniel "Bat Wings" Cotfas
Daniel is a fourth year Biological Sciences student, graduating on June 3rd, 2009.
David "Str8 Up Hawtie" Lloyd
David Lloyd is a 3rd year student, studying at the University of Alberta. While biochemistry is his major, David has many interests including genetics, immunology, cell biology, bioinformatics, and microbiology. In his spare time he can bound found playing sports, including soccer, volleyball or squash, as well as playing piano, listening to music, and playing video games. Yo, I'm a str8 up G, the lab life is the life for me. Running gels by day, plating colonies by night, being a synbiologist is hella tight. Yo I'm the mighty D to the avid but we never stay low that's why I'm Lloyd. I take out those gene the way I out them playa hatas. Straight up, no one pippettes like the mighty D. Don't be calling me to plate that garbage, you be wasting my minutes. I burst them cells like I pop my lab colla. Don't mess with with this straight G, I'll you won't have an eye left for iGem. PEACE
Denis "Frenchie" Joly
Denis hails from St. Paul, Alberta. A town where men are men and women are too. Denis just might be hit by a flying-from-out-of-nowhere, hardcover French dictionary this summer. This sad event may have been illicited by his incessant antics messing with EDIT functions. It's probably a good thing he has already fulfilled his life's wish of skydiving...
Denis might be innocent with respect to the allegations put in front of him, but still deserves to be hit with the dictionary. As should Oscar for reasons unbeknownst to him. Team dynamics are awesome!
[[Image:]]>Enoch "Motor Boater" NG
Enoch has simultaneously been voluntold to every single subteam that does not require complex knowledge of anything cellular.
Emera "Darkness" Nguyen
Emera is a third year BSc Biological Sciences/Economics student. This will be her second year competing in iGEM.
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[[Image:]] Eric "Qiwei" Leung
Eric is currently in his third year of a pharmacology degree. He enjoys playing basketball and badminton, drawing, and trying to catch up to TV series such as House and Heroes. Oh, and the Oilers rock.
[[Image:]] "Rick" James
Saul Godkewitsch, hailing from beautiful Canmore, Alberta, is in his fourth year of
Electrical Engineering studies, biomedical option. While pipettes and Eppendorf tubes
aren't his specialty, the iGEM project proved to be one of the most exciting pursuits of
his summer. When he wasn't making gels or preparing overnights, Saul was spending time
working on his diffusion tensor tractography project of neurodevelopment in the corpus
callosum (read: "brain stuff"), or playing squash. Aside from schoolwork, Saul
volunteers at the Campus Food Bank, plays guitar and enjoys sports of all variety.
[[Image:]] James "Sparky" R
Saul Godkewitsch, hailing from beautiful Canmore, Alberta, is in his fourth year of
Electrical Engineering studies, biomedical option. While pipettes and Eppendorf tubes
aren't his specialty, the iGEM project proved to be one of the most exciting pursuits of
his summer. When he wasn't making gels or preparing overnights, Saul was spending time
working on his diffusion tensor tractography project of neurodevelopment in the corpus
callosum (read: "brain stuff"), or playing squash. Aside from schoolwork, Saul
volunteers at the Campus Food Bank, plays guitar and enjoys sports of all variety.
Jen is currently a second year honors biochemistry student and a newbie to igem. When she isn't busy perfecting her skills in the lab, she bakes cookies...really really REALLLY good magic cookies. In addition, she enjoys chainmaille-ing, knitting, and playing the piano. She likes attention from old men, preferably over 80.
Jonathan "Lemminwinks" Tam
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[[Image:]] Justin "Justice" Fedor
Justin likes beads; all beads, magnetic or normal beads.
Kalon "Clam Burglar" Amstrong
Kalon Armstrong is a 4th year UofA student finishing off a BSc specializing in Molecular Genetics. Most of his growing-up and schooling took place in the small town of Cochrane, AB. This will be his first year on UofA's IGEM team and he is excited help take the competition to a new level. His ultimate goals consist of working in the Biotech or healthcare industry. When lab work,textbooks & energy drinks are aside, Kalon volunteers at the Student Distress Center on campus. While his interest in music, movies, snowboarding & hanging with friends etc. may seem stereotypical on the surface, they feel unique in their own right and keep him more than busy most of the time.
[[Image:]] Kiwi Fruit
Kiwi Fruit is a 2nd year Biochemistry student. He just loves being fruity... and rainbow colored bowling shirts.
Kevin "Quarter Pint" Tok
I enjoys to spend time with my cuzin' Bobbie-Sue. She has a purtty mouf. and she ed-u-a-cated to the third level in school, ele-ment-ary, that is. I also love my dog.
[[Image:]] "Moaner" Lisa
Saul Godkewitsch, hailing from beautiful Canmore, Alberta, is in his fourth year of
Electrical Engineering studies, biomedical option. While pipettes and Eppendorf tubes
aren't his specialty, the iGEM project proved to be one of the most exciting pursuits of
his summer. When he wasn't making gels or preparing overnights, Saul was spending time
working on his diffusion tensor tractography project of neurodevelopment in the corpus
callosum (read: "brain stuff"), or playing squash. Aside from schoolwork, Saul
volunteers at the Campus Food Bank, plays guitar and enjoys sports of all variety.
[[Image:]] Julia "Try Hard" Pon
Julia enjoys doing essays for fun and auditing molecular genetics classes...Okay, I feel like I should update this somehow, but that pretty much sums it up. Sad but true. I also have an addiction for dark chocolate (if you know what i mean ;) - that's black men for those who didn't get it), hate golf with a passion and like the word wapiti. I also wish I was clever enough to be the first one to realize Winnipeg sounds like a cheap contest for pirates. I'm in third year honors molecular genetics.
Steve's in 2nd year genetics. He likes sandwiches.
Uche "Black Magic" Davidson
Uche enjoys the soulful music of 98 degrees, N Sync, and Backstreet Boys. His interest include collecting Jonas brother posters and just can't understand how people don't know every word to HSM1,2, and 3! And OMG, if they know the dance moves... (you don't even want to know)
Max "Maxy Pads" Buchko
This is Max's first iGEM experience and is hoping for the best with the 2009 University of Alberta team down at MIT. He is in his third year of Honors Biochemistry and wishes to pursue a career in medicine. If that doesn't work out, he wishes to pursue a woman who will have a career in medicine. In his time away from the lab he enjoys a wide variety of sports including soccer, boxing, rifle silhouette shooting, ballet dancing, and of course interpretative dancing. He also has been known to strum a chord or two at an intolerable volume to the annoyance of the people living upstairs, that is, if he is not re-acting the dance scenes from the movie Flash Dance.
[[Image:]] Anh "Compton" Dao
Anh is currently in her third year, majoring in Biological Sciences and Chemistry. This is her first year participating in the University of Alberta iGem Team. Her hobbies include playing the piano, drawing and cooking up strange concoctions she calls food.
Oscar "True Pimp" Cortes
Oscar is in his third year Bsc. specialization molecular genetics, he enjoys getting himself into trouble and as a consequence ending up in a Hospital. However, it's no secret that he actually does this so he can have hot nurses take care of him. This is his first year with the iGEM team and he is having a blast.
Boris "El Pollo Loco" Henriquez
Boris is in the third year of his Bachelor degree in biological sciences. He enjoys drinking, eating, and taking constant cat naps underneath random trees. This will be his first year with the iGem Team and he is looking forward to sweeping and mopping the lab.
Alina "The Russian" Ponomarev
Alina is the newbie because she's only in the first year of her Bachelor degree in Biological Sciences. But don't be fooled... She is a 2nd degree black belt in taekwondo and can kick your butt, if for some odd reason that turns you on. She is also from St.Petersburg, Russia. Her favorite topic in biology is evolution and if Charles Darwin was still alive, he and Alina would be hommies. They would have evolution rap battles like the Pokemon rap. On that note, Alina loves Pikachu.
Advisors
Dr. Michael Deyholos
Dr. Douglas "Pinky" Ridgway
Dr. Michael "The Brain" Ellison
James Maclagan
Dr. Wayne Materi
Background & Interests: BSc Computing Science Simon Frasier University, PhD Molecular Biology and Genetics University of Alberta, interests include neural development of nematode C. elegans and Synthetic Biology(design and construction of novel genetically modified bacteria to perform useful manufacturing and medical functions)
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