Team:William and Mary/Team
Meet The Team
Beteel is a junior majoring in Biology. Beteel’s favorite poets are Kahlil Gibran and Rumi. She really enjoys discussing philosophy, dancing, singing, and exploring film. She always finds inspiration in Steve Jobs, Robin Williams’ films, and “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho, but her mother is her biggest inspiration and all she aspires to be.
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” ― Steve Jobs
Avery Bradley is a sophomore majoring in biology and minoring in biochemistry. She joined the iGEM team knowing very little about synthetic biology, but quickly found it very interesting. In her free time Avery likes to make funny powerpoints, play the guitar, and hang out with her twenty-one pound cat. She is also a big cyclohexane enthusiast.
Matt is a junior majoring in biology and minoring in chemistry and CAMS (Computational & Applied Mathematics & Statistics). This is his first year of iGEM, working as a member of the wetlab team. His hobbies include radio, soccer, guitar, basketball, traveling, activism, and telling everyone he knows about synthetic biology. His biggest interests are the Celtics, Chelsea FC, A Song of Ice and Fire, Tame Impala, national parks, The Mandalorian, Rocket League, and The 1975. He hopes to pursue a career in SynBio.
Riya is a sophomore majoring in Biology and minoring in Data Science. She joined the iGEM team to explore the very cool and futuristic field that is synthetic biology. She likes playing the ukulele, hiking, hoodies, Frasier, laughing at bad puns, chilling at Swem, crocs, reading, and learning how to code.
Min is a sophomore majoring in Biology. He is attracted to synthetic biology and its future applications, so he joined iGEM. He likes drawing, biology, international relations, politics, cooking, aquariums, museums, cats, acoustic guitar cover of pop songs, and watching funny pet videos on the internet.
Hey guys, I’m Josh nice to meet you. I’m a former physics major who now majors in mathematics and minors in Italian. I like languages, math, architecture, drawing, biology, Netflix, the internet, politics, engineering, interesting people, working hard and hardly working, a nice sunny day, the beach, movies, guys, fashion, satisfying videos on Instagram, and talking, I really like talking, in other languages if possible.
Adam is a senior CAMS (Computational & Applied Mathematics & Statistics) major with a focus in mathematical biology. Aside from his implicit love for science and synthetic biology, Adam also loves: philosophy, politics, debate, coffee, listening to genres of music people don’t know exist, contemplating the nature of reality, funky socks, hiking, gaming, sarcasm, trying to be funny, talking too fast, cats, dogs, essentially all animals, not wasps, screw wasps, and oscillating between being absurdist and wholesome. Despises the admin card swipe task in Among Us.
Julia is a senior majoring in mathematical biology. In her spare time, she enjoys competitive powerlifting and rewatching Arrested Development from start to finish, excluding season 4. She manages an extensive farm in Stardew Valley, where she sells fruit and vegetable preserves.
Wei Wang (to the right) is a junior majoring in math and CAMS (Computational & Applied Mathematics & Statistics). This is her first time working in iGEM as a modeling team member. Then she pauses here for about 15 mins and freaks out a little since all other team members seem to have much more interesting lives than hers. As a comparison she usually just reads, watches films and anime, cooks, thinks about life (?), and does calligraphy and video editing occasionally.
Hantao is a junior majoring in Math and Physics. He just found synthetic biology so fun but frankly he does not have the ability to learn any biology. He loves nature, and knows how to dig bamboo shoots and cook them.
Dr. Mainak Patel is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the College of William and Mary with an affiliate appointment in the Neuroscience Program. He completed an M.D. from New York University and a Ph.D in Computational Biology (focusing on neuronal modeling) from the Courant Institute for Applied Mathematics (New York University). He joined the faculty of the Mathematics Department at the College of William and Mary in 2014 where he has taught Calculus, Differential Equations, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Mathematical Biology.
Dr. Saha is a developmental neurobiologist (and loves combining synthetic biology with development) and the primary adviser of the W&M iGEM Team. Her unwavering support was instrumental in the founding of the team in 2014, and in the team's continuation every year since then. She drinks 15 cups of coffee per day, much to the concern of some of her students. She insists it's all right.
