Team:Sheffield/Team
Undergrads
Uddhav Agarwal
Computer Science
Uddhav, well Uddhav is a special man, he came here all the way from India. I admire his patience with everyone in this team, especially since he is our wiki guy and has to put up with everyone and put all the ideas in order. Partying is not his thing at all (only sarcasm here) or wearing shorts when its freezing cold. When it comes to his knowledge on computers, we are all amazed but what we are really amazed with is his rich head of hair.
Emily Ingham
Bioengineering
Emily is our team’s transport provider. She’s always offering us rides whether it’s for important human practices meetings or just for our casual destressing times at the pub. She gives a death stare if we ever try to poke her and she’s always amused by how Piotr bullies Harindi.
Thea Chrysostomou
Biomedical Sciences
To start with, yes; Cyprus is not a part of Greece. Want to argue about that? I really don’t recommend you do that with Thea. Well, she is a third year Biomedical Sciences student, she is cute and people love her. And oh boy let me tell you one thing, she love anatomy. Cutting Extensor Digitorum Longus or Abductor Digiti Minimi is her thing. It’s amazing. After finishing her undergraduate studies she will start medical degree somewhere with more sun(sorry Sheffield). Thea has some real fire, she is always ready to dance it out with of course latin music. Honestly though, she has quite a big heart, If she could, she would like to help anyone in need!
Lucy Barnet
Bioengineering
Hello, my name is Lucy as you can probably see and I’m from Brighton, but decided to start a bioengineering course at The University of Sheffield. Mostly because we don’t have any good universities in Brighton. We do, however, have an excellent aquarium, which I enjoy visiting very, very much. Because I am running out of the word limit, I feel like I should express my love and passion to iGEM. Team is great, but Piotr Janas is the pillar that holds us together.
Piotr Janas
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Piotr is a very nice guy, full of energy but he currently betrayed us and moved to Edinburgh for Masters in the department of Infectious diseases. He is passionate about some quality wine and jazz chilled nights. But what he really enjoys is some long hiking trips in the middle of nowhere. He knows everything and always dresses smart even in pyjamas. He is very ambitious and am looking forward to sit next to him when he will get his Nobel Prize.
Harindi Jayakody
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
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Caleb Parikh
Autonomatic Control Systems Engineering
Hello there future friends! My name is Caleb and I spend most of my time studying Automated Control Systems Engineering. ACSE students can be quite timid sometimes, but I am trying to improve my social skills, so if you see me at the Jamboree, don’t be afraid to give me a big ol’ hug and help me get over my fear of human contact. If I’m not at library, I am probably out with my iGEM friends or shooting some pictures with my very expensive camera, or maybe even playing some jams on my guitar.
Ruby Kell
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Ruby is a talented microbiologist whose work at IGEM included everything from planning and executing wet lab experiments to conducting market research and branding for our device. She was particularly involved in organising our outreach event which saw aspiring scientists from high schools across Sheffield learning about synthetic biology and even taking part in a mini jamboree-style event!
Supervisors
Dimitrios Michailides
PhD Student at the Department of MBB
Our boss
Mateusz Jurga
PhD Student at the Department of MBB
The latin guy
Lukas Jasaitis
PhD Student at the Department of Chemistry
Lukas from Lithuania is the cutest guy in the team. He is apparently the best musician in Europe but he is too shy to play for us. He makes sure he maintains the balance
Sponsors
The University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield is a research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It received its royal charter in 1905 as successor to the University College of Sheffield, which was established in 1897 by the merger of Sheffield Medical School (founded in 1828), Firth College (1879) and Sheffield Technical School (1884). At present day, the University of Sheffield is in the top 10 per cent of all UK universities, according to the results of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).
Faculty of Science
Department of Biomedical Science, Department of Computer Science, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
The Faculty of Science is the home of science at the University of Sheffield. It is made up seven departments that span the classical science subjects of biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and psychology. We are dedicated, through our research, to understanding ourselves, our world and its place in the universe. At the same time, we are training a new generation of experts to find solutions to the problems that science can solve.
Faculty of Engineering
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Interdisciplinary Programmes Office and Department of Biological Engineering
At Sheffield we’re passionate about developing world-leading engineering professionals. Our teaching brings together the fundamental scientific knowledge that underpins engineering with the creative thinking and problem-solving skills to create outstanding engineers.Through cutting-edge research and strong partnerships with industry leaders globally, such as Boeing, Siemens and Rolls-Royce, our academics tackle the biggest challenges facing the modern world through an increasingly collaborative and multidisciplinary approach.
Alumni Fund Foundation
The University of Sheffield
The Alumni Fund helps provide talented students with access to a first-class education they would otherwise be unable to afford, whilst maintaining and further enhancing standards at the University for future generations of students. Donations to the Alumni Fund support our students' academic and personal development, and give them the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge that will serve them throughout their lives.
University of Sheffield Enterprise
University of Sheffield Enterprise (USE) seeks to stimulate new ideas and supports students and graduates of the University to make their entrepreneurial ideas happen, through a programme of activities including: business coaching, advice, seed funding and incubation space.
BBSRC
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is a UK Research Council and NDPB and is the largest UK public funder of non-medical bioscience. It predominantly funds scientific research institutes and university research departments in the UK. Receiving its funding through the science budget of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), BBSRC's mission is to "promote and support, by any means, high-quality basic, strategic and applied research and related postgraduate training relating to the understanding and exploitation of biological systems"
New England Biolabs
New England Biolabs (NEB) produces and supplies recombinant and native enzyme reagents for the life science research, as well as providing solutions supporting genome editing, synthetic biology and next-generation sequencing. NEB also provides free access to research tools such as REBASE, InBASE, and Polbase.
Prof David Hornby
The University of Sheffield
Dave Hornby is a professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Sheffield. His research interests lie in developing analytical methods for genomics and proteomics, expanding the functional repertoire of natural macromolecular assemblies and remodeling enzymes and toxins. He is our primary supervisor and has been with the team since first started.
Prof Mike Hounslow
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engineering
Mike is a chemical engineer with BE and PhD degrees from the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Prof Visakan Kadirakamanathan
Engineering for Life
Professor Kadirkamanathan is the Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre at the University of Sheffield and former Head of the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering. His research interests lie in signal and information processing in areas of Intelligent Systems, Decision and Control related topics at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre. Some of his work is also within the Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems. As our supervisor, he has advised us on building our device and modeling our system.
Dr. Sandrine Soubes
The University of Sheffield
Dr Sandrine Soubes is the Researcher Development Manager in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sheffield. Sandrine has many interests concerned with academic practices and communities, such as the development of interdisciplinary research practices or the creation of peer-support communities for researchers. Sandrine is a steering group member of the Women@TUOS network and has a strong personal commitment towards enhancing the support for women researchers at the University.
