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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"
Favorite Film: Lion King
Funny Quote: "If you are not failing then you aren't in synthetic biology"
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Sophia Sneddon
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '21
Favorite Hobbies: Piano, biking, over-caffeinating
Favorite TV Show: Gilmore Girls
Favorite Superpower: Breathing underwater
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
Favorite Superpower: Retaining information and not forgetting things
Favorite Sport: Field Hockey
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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
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
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Conor Kensok
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '21
Favorite Animal: Sloth
Favorite TV Show: Parks and Recreation
Favorite Film: Zoolander
Favorite TV Show: Parks and Recreation
Favorite Film: Zoolander
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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.
Faith Williams
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '21
Ask Faith to make you her legendary lemon bars - you won't regret it!
Favorite Food: SushiFavorite 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.
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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.
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.
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Joshua Elkins
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '21
Favortie Hobbies: Rock climbing, surfing, backpacking, writing music, skiing
Favorite Food: Pancakes
Favorite Sport: Olympic Curling
Favorite Food: Pancakes
Favorite Sport: Olympic Curling
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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.”
Favorite Sport: Hockey
Funny Quote: “I would sell my soul to find a plasticizer that works.”
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Favorite Superpower: Complete Disease Resistance
Favorite TV Show: The West Wing
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 saladFavorite Superpower: Complete Disease Resistance
Favorite TV Show: The West Wing
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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...
Favorite Superpower: be able to fly
One biological fact that they will never forget: No one knows where baby eels come from...
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Taylor Ziccardi
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics '21
Favortie Animal: Dogs!
Favorite Food: Noodles
Favorite Sport: Soccer
Favorite Food: Noodles
Favorite Sport: Soccer
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Spooky
Cutology and Cuddlnomics '21
Favortie Hobby: Glaring at passerbys
Favorite Food: Meow Luau
Favorite Activity: Cuddling
Favorite Food: Meow Luau
Favorite Activity: Cuddling
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Ryan Modlin
Graduate Student
Favortie Hobbies: Surfing, Gaming, Ping Pong
Favorite Superpower: Shapeshift
Favorite Film: Your Name
Favorite Superpower: Shapeshift
Favorite Film: Your Name
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Dr. David Bernick
Faculty Advisor
Favortie Hobbies: Making guitars in my free time
Favorite Food: Mrs. Bernick's cooking! :)
Favorite Film: The Village
Favorite Food: Mrs. Bernick's cooking! :)
Favorite Film: The Village
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