Team:UGent Belgium/Team Members
Team
Bram Spanoghe
Brent Vanvyaene
Lander De Vos
Laure Craeye
Marvi van Tongeren
Shauny Van Hoye
Principal Instructors
Marjan De Mey
Wim Van Criekinge
Instructors
Michiel Stock
José Manuel Salvador Lopez
Bram Spanoghe
Master in Science in Bioscience Engineering: Cell and Gene Biotechnology
- Age: 21 y/o
- Favorite sport: Badminton
- Favorite pets: Chickens
- Favorite mammal: The noble bunny
- Favorite bacterium: All Rhizobia. They're all good bois.
- Favorite quote: "Thanks, Obama" - Barack Obama
- Reasons for participating in iGEM: Accumulating international fame is a crucial step in becoming a succesful mad scientist
Brent Vanvyaene
Master in Science in Bioscience Engineering: Cell and Gene Biotechnology
- Age: 20 y/o
- Favorite sport: Running
- Favorite pets: Cats
- Favorite mammal: Elephant
- Favorite bacterium: Photorhabdus luminescens
- Favorite quote: "A good engineer is a lazy engineer." - Niko Verhoest
- Reasons for participating in iGEM: iGEM seemed like a great opportunity to use the things I learned during my school carreer and to actively search for a solution for a world problem.
Lander De Vos
Master of science in the industrial sciences - Biochemistry
- Age: 21 y/o
- Favorite sport: Badminton
- Favorite pets: Dog
- Favorite mammal: Honey badger
- Favorite bacterium: Clostridium luticellarii
- Favorite quote: "98% of Albert Einstein quotes are fake." - A. Einstein
- Reasons for participating in iGEM: The challenge to work on a project from the idea to the realisation.
Laure Craeye
Master of science in the industrial sciences - Biochemistry
- Age: 21 y/o
- Favorite sport: Ski & Surf
- Favorite pets: Bunnies & Sheep
- Favorite mammal: Elephant
- Favorite bacterium: Alliivibrio fisheri
- Favorite quote: "Nil volentibus arduum (Nothing is impossible if you just want it) "
- Reasons for participating in iGEM: iGEM gives us the opportunity to convert our knowledge into something practical, something useful. iGEM gives us the opportunity to discover ourselves, to meet new people from all over the world and to discover what we want in the future and as a job. This is the best opportunity I had during my school career.
Marvi van Tongeren
Master of Science in Bioscience Engineering: Cell and Gene Biotechnology
- Age: 22 y/o
- Favorite sport: Cycling
- Favorite pets: Dogs
- Favorite mammal: Black panther
- Favorite bacterium: Deinococcus radiodurans
- Favorite quote: "If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. But if you let me experience, I will learn." - Lao Tzu
- Reasons for participating in iGEM: A perfect opportunity to brainstorm about an actual world problem with people who have the same interests as you. It challenges you ‘to think outside the box’ and to deal with all the pros and cons of a scientific project.
Shauny Van Hoye
Master of Science in Bioscience Engineering: Cell and Gene Biotechnology
- Age: 21 y/o
- Favorite sport: Snowboarding
- Favorite pets: Bunnies
- Favorite mammal: Snow leopard
- Favorite bacterium: Magnetospirillum magneticum
- Favorite quote: "There’s a way to do it better — find it" - Thomas Edison
- Reasons for participating in iGEM: Why do anything? Curiosity got the best of me.
Marjan De Mey
Professor of Metabolic Engineering and head of the Metabolic Engineering Group at the Centre of Synthetic Biology (CSB)
- Age: The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life
- Favorite sport: Mind games
- Favorite pets: Anything but spiders
- Favorite mammal: Wildcat
- Favorite micro-organism: Non-model microorganisms, as there is still much to discover
- Favorite quote: "Never waste a good crisis" - maybe Winston Churchill
- Reasons for participating in iGEM: To reach for the sky
Wim Van Criekinge
Part-time professor at Ghent university as head of the laboratory for computational genomics and bioinformatics (BioBix)
- Age: 49
- Favorite sport: Badminton
- Favorite pets: Roof - Blue Healer (Australian Cattle Dog)
- Favorite mammal: Pot-bellied pigs named "Big" and "Data"
- Favorite micro-organism: MS2 (first complete genome ever sequenced… by researcher in Gent)
- Favorite quote: "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources" - Albert Einstein
- Reasons for participating in iGEM: Always going for the red pill
Michiel Stock
FWO funded postdoctoral researcher at the KERMIT (knowledge-based systems) group at Ghent University
- Age: 31
- Favorite sport: Running
- Favorite pets: My seal point Persian cat
- Favorite mammal: Platypus
- Favorite micro-organism: F1 phage
- Favorite quote: "Sometimes science is more art than science, Morty. Lot of people don't get that." - Rick
- Reasons for participating in iGEM: Free DNA synthesis!
José Manuel Salvador Lopez
PhD student researching on fatty acid export systems in oleaginous yeasts
- Age: 26
- Favorite sport: Hiking
- Favorite pets: The duck and chicken from Friends
- Favorite mammal: Killer whale
- Favorite micro-organism: Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the only living being that can do genetic engineering without restrictions in Europe
- Favorite quote: "Hope is undiscovered dissapointment." - Sun's trainer in Sense8
- Reasons for participating in iGEM: I participated in iGEM in 2017 as part of the Wageningen team and I wanted to share my experience and advice with the new generations.