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The Stanford iGEM team consist of 10 undergraduate students, and also include graduate student mentors and faculty advisors. Students are working full time throughout the summer of 2009 to engineer a synthetic biological system, and will present their project in the form of posters and a 20 minute presentation at the Jamboree. This is the first time that our team is competing.

Undergraduates

• Suzie Bartram,Class of 2012, Undeclared. Her research experiences include an internship at the McLaughlin Research Institute in the lab of John R. Bermingham, Jr., Ph.D. where she performed in situ hybridization on mouse embryos to study genes related to Schwann cell differentiation and peripheral myelination.

• Mark Fang,Project Director, Class of 2011, Biomedical Computation and Biochemistry. With the Stanford iGEM team Mark is responsible for the protein engineering and overall system design aspects. Outside of iGEM, Mark has been a part of the Helms Lab in the Stanford Department of Regenerative Medicine for just shy of two years, and has completed internships in Bioinformatics at Iowa State University and in Particle Physics at Drake University. Mark enjoys taking a multidisciplinary approach to thinking about the life sciences and finds all of the natural science fields equally fascinating.

• Joseph Lau,Class of 2011, Undeclared. Joseph comes from industry with a mechanical engineering background. He has spent the last two summers at Hewlett-Packard as a mechanical engineering intern. He is also very interested in the design process and sees synthetic biology as an engineering concept that can revolutionize biology.

• Leon Lin,Secretary, Class of 2011, Computer Science and Biology. Leon has primarily conducted research in chemistry, having researched cyanogels at Princeton University and Superplasticizers at Elotex in Switzerland. He is responsible for the modeling on the Stanford iGEM team and his interests these days revolve around computer science theory.

• Ariana Peck,Class of 2012, Molecular and Cellular Biology. Ariana's research experience involved a summer internship in Betsy Mellins' lab where she studied monocytic phenotype in patients with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

• Robert Ovadia,Lab Manager, Class of 2011, Bioengineering. Attending the City College of San Francisco, Robert has worked with the 2007 UCSF iGEM team on phosphinositide "barcodes" and the 2008 Caltech team on a probiotic bacteria.

• Anusuya Ramasubramanian,Treasurer, Class of 2011, Biomechanical Engineering. Anusuya is interested in exploring the role of human-engineered nanomaterials in biological systems. For the past three years, she has been working in Jeffrey T. Glass' lab at Duke University's Pratt School.

• Bobby Wei,Class of 2011, Biomedical Computation. Currently split between attending medical school and working for the biotechnology industry, Bobby is also interested in microfinancing and social entrepreneurship, especially in China. He enjoys playing the piano, as well as volleyball.

• Ming Yan,Class of 2011, Biomechanical Engineering. Fascinated by the science of genetics, She has spent the past summer doing research in the field of plant genetics. Outside of the lab, she is involved in Society of Women Engineers and Stanford Student Biodesign, among other groups.

• Mary Yang,Class of 2010, a summer exchange student from Tsinghua University, is now responsible of modeling and graphical design for the Stanford iGEM team. Mary has previously worked with the 2008 THU team on Bacteria Chemotaxis. Majoring in Biomedical Engineering, she is also interested in medical graphics and surgery navigation. Outside lab, Mary works as president of the Student Science and Technology Association of Tsinghua Medical School.

Directors

• Nghi Nguyen,Class of 2009. Nghi is a Masters student in Biological Science, specializing in Molecular and Cellular Biology. His research interest in Helen Blau's Lab lies at the intersection of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine.

• Ariane Tom, Class of 2011. A Materials Science and Engineering major, Ariane is particularly interested in utilizing biomaterials for regenerative therapies. She is currently working on characterizing the properties of hydrogel-based keratoprosthesis in Curtis Frank's lab.

Graduate Student Mentors

• Andy Chang
• Deepa Galaiya
• Annie Hazelhurst
• Hiren Mulchandani
• Virginia Teijeiro
• Isis Trenchard
• Chris VanLang
• Rayka Yokoo
• Feng Zhang
• Bo Zhou

Faculty Advisors

• Christina Smolke
• Drew Endy