Team:AUC-EGYPT/Team
iGEM committee: Mathematical Modeling, Software, Circuit Design
Interests: Religions and Business
Ahmed has a strong appetite for reading religious texts and exploring the business potential biological solutions. He is a team leader, and he is contributing to the circuit design, software engineering and mathematical modeling.
Major: Biology
iGEM committee: Human Practices, Game Design, Circuit Design
Interests: Capacity Building, Acting, Environmental Issues, Tennis
Rana studies Molecular biology and bioinformatics. Beside her curiosity towards biological sciences especially virology & cancer biology, she believes in the power of multi-disciplinary teamwork. She is a team leader, circuit designer, creative writer, and PR specialist. Rana is responsible for designing our SARS-CoV-2 like particles delivery system. Also, she ensures that we spread this knowledge from the lab to the world, so she participated in creating an interactive and informative content for our Syn-Bio game.
Major: Molecular and Cell Biology
iGEM committee: Wiki, Game Design, Circuit Design, Human Practices
Interests: Scientific writing, Programming, Photography, Mystery Books, and Volleyball.
Salma studies Biology with concentrations in Molecular and Cell Biology. She is also minoring in Bioinformatics. She finds synthetic biology to be incredibly stimulating because of its intuitive nature and palpable impact on the world. Salma believes in the power of scientific research since high school and its impact on treating lethal diseases. She is interested in Immunology and Tumor Biology, in particular, hoping one day she could relieve patients suffering. About her role in the iGEM competition, she has contributed to the circuit design and characterization through creating 2 de novo siRNA sequences targeting SARS-CoV-2 replicase mRNA. She has also helped with the game design, Wiki writing, Molecular Cloud competition, and Human Practices in which she has created a crisis simulation to mimic the severe consequences of synthetic biology if it went wrong.
Major: Mechanical Engineering
iGEM committee: Graphic Design
Interests: Volleyball - Pingpong - Movies - Classic music
Abd-Elrhman Elsadany is a senior mechanical engineering student at The American University in Cairo. Abd-Elrhman has more than three years of experience in mechanical systems, and graphic design. He is the graphic designer in AUC-EGYPT iGEM where he is responsible for all the artwork, including branding and designing different layouts (for the wiki and the poster).
Major: Biology
Committee: Human Practices.
Interests: Science Communication and Journalism.
Biography: Abdurrahman studies biology and Mass Communication. He is interested in Science writing and communication. He has previous experience in written media through The Arabic edition of "Nature".
He is helping with the media and outreach of the team. Moreover, he is helping in creating audience specified content to reach more people to communicate our idea.
Major: Computer Engineering
iGEM committee: Game Design
Interests: Playing squash, reading, environmental issues
Dalia is a Computer Engineering student with a double minor in Electronics and Business. She is interested in game design and development. To pursue her interest, she joined the game design committee as a game developer. She must develop an educational game app that helps in communicating synthetic biology to the public.
Major: Computer Enginnering
iGEM committee: Wiki
Interests: Computer Engineering, software engineering, entrepreneurship.
Kareem is a computer engineering student at the AUC. He has been fond of computers since he was very young, and now he is interested in technology and its integration in entrepreneurship. He is mostly responsible for the development of the wiki.
Major: Computer Engineering
iGEM committee: Wiki and Software
Interests: Hacking and reverse engineering
Hello everyone, my name is Mina Ashraf, a computer engineering junior. I love to build applications, then hack into them. I also love to do buy bounties in my free time. This year, I am one of the wiki developers and a member of the software team for AUC-EGYPT iGEM team.
Major: Petroleum and Energy Engineering
iGEM committee: Bioentrepreneurship and human practices
Interests: Entrepreneurship and Social development
Mohamed is always passionate about having new experiences, broadening my thinking, and expanding my worldview. He was assigned to join the Bio-entrepreneurship committee to make a business model for our project and to the Human Practices committee to try to generate ideas of how to engage and be actively in touch with our surrounding community to make sure that our project serves the concerned communities in an appropriate way.
Major: Chemistry
iGEM committee: Wiki and human practices
Interests: Entrepreneurship, writing, social development
Mohammad Monir is a junior student pursuing a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a minor in economics. Actually, He is a science-oriented researcher characterized with a strong history in leadership and entrepreneurship fields. This year, I work for AUC-Egypt iGEM team in order to support the human practices part in addition to writing some parts of the wiki.
Major: Actuarial Science
iGEM committee: Mathematical Modeling
Interests: Yoga, reading history books and going on camping trips
Norhan is a senior Actuarial science student with minor in Economics. She loves reading and writing. She is a part of the modeling team, and she is particularly responsible for structuring the mathematical model that describes the biological system.
Major: Business Administration
iGEM committee: Bioentrepreneurship and human practices
Interests: Psychology, marketing, writing, biology
Sawsan studies Business with a concentration in marketing. She is also interested in psychology, writing and biology among other areas. She has experience writing poetry for AUC Times and writing & editing posts for the literature club. She is mainly part of the bio entrepreneurship team testing the commercial viability of our therapy and she also supports our human practices.
Major: Electronics and Communication Engineering
iGEM committee: Graphic Design
Interests: Anime, travel, film making
Youssef is a passionate learner who find interest in exploring new worlds. So, his role in IGEM in the graphic design committee makes me visualize better these other worlds.
Dr. Anwar was responsible for revising the scientific content of project and helping the team in formulating the idea.
Hana was responsible for designing a working plan, supervising the implementation phase of the project, conducting regular meetings with all team members to check the work progress and guide us with any issues we encountered.
Mahmoud helped the team alot in the human practices part through providing many tips about possible partnerships and events that we could work on.
Mohammad's main focus was to offer advice in the presentation and science communication aspects of our project.
Special Thanks to
Omar's main focus was to provide a technical support in developing the Wiki as he has a professional Web Development skills and worked on several Web-Based Projects.