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Members

Come meet our team members!

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Melody Azimi

Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '21

Favorite Hobby: Road Biking

Favorite Film: Lion King

Funny Quote: "If you are not failing then you aren't in synthetic biology"

Sophia Sneddon

Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '21

Favorite Hobbies: Piano, biking, over-caffeinating

Favorite TV Show: Gilmore Girls

Favorite Superpower: Breathing underwater

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Alicia Jorgenson

Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '21

Favorite Food: Sushi or poke

Favorite Superpower: Retaining information and not forgetting things

Favorite Sport: Field Hockey

Claudia Paz Flores

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology - Neuroscience '21

Favorite Animal: Dogs! or Rabbits

Favorite Superpower: invisibility or reversing time

One biological fact they will never forget: if you think an engineer is smart then bacteria is 100x smarter, they don't have an immune system so they got super creative with their defense mechanisms against viruses (crispr/cas9)! :D

Conor Kensok

Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '21

Favorite Animal: Sloth

Favorite TV Show: Parks and Recreation

Favorite Film: Zoolander

Faith Williams

Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '21

Ask Faith to make you her legendary lemon bars - you won't regret it!

Favorite Food: Sushi

Favorite Film: Howl's Moving Castle

One biological fact they will not forget: What is a cat's favorite amino acid? Histidine! C-A-T encodes His.

Gabriel Sanchez Jr.

Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '20

Favorite Food: Sandwiches (structural neutral, ingredient purist)

Favorite Sport: Road cycling, poorly lmao

Fun fact: Gabe broke a total of two bones and tore his ACL while a member of the team.

Joshua Elkins

Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '21

Favortie Hobbies: Rock climbing, surfing, backpacking, writing music, skiing

Favorite Food: Pancakes

Favorite Sport: Olympic Curling

Kyra Eyerman

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology '21

Favortie Animal: My cat named Mango

Favorite Sport: Hockey

Funny Quote: “I would sell my soul to find a plasticizer that works.”

Navdeep Kalkat

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology '21

Favortie Hobbies: Powerlifting, videogames, and offroading

Favorite Superpower: Time travel

Favorite Film: Scary Movie

Neil Smith

Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '22

Neil is the youngest person on the iGEM team, a frequenter of oceanic excursions, and looking forward to continuing in synbio!

Favortie Food: Falafel salad

Favorite Superpower: Complete Disease Resistance

Favorite TV Show: The West Wing

Rachel Mace

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology '21

Favortie Animal: My dog Wondo!

Favorite Superpower: be able to fly

One biological fact that they will never forget: No one knows where baby eels come from...

Taylor Ziccardi

Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '21

Favortie Animal: Dogs!

Favorite Food: Noodles

Favorite Sport: Soccer

Spooky

Cutology and Cuddlnomics '21

Favortie Hobby: Glaring at passerbys

Favorite Food: Meow Luau

Favorite Activity: Cuddling

Advisors

Ryan Modlin

Graduate Student

Favortie Hobbies: Surfing, Gaming, Ping Pong

Favorite Superpower: Shapeshift

Favorite Film: Your Name

Dr. David Bernick

Faculty Advisor

Favortie Hobbies: Making guitars in my free time

Favorite Food: Mrs. Bernick's cooking! :)

Favorite Film: The Village