Team:TU-Eindhoven/Team
Team Members
Wytse van den Berg
I am a master student at the TU/e. My interests are mostly in Organic Chemistry and it was therefore a logical choice for me to join the iGEM competition. I like that iGEM offers a lot of freedom in defining you own project. I will be the chairman of our team this year and it will be my responsibility to lead the meetings and keep track of the overall planning in our project. Furthermore, I will keep myself busy with, besides lab work, sponsoring and modeling of our project.
Ralf Philipsen
I am following the master Biomedical Engineering and am mostly interested in areas such as protein engineering and molecular biology. After having studied this for years, I would like to apply this knowledge in a broad project like iGEM, where we have a lot of freedom to determine what we want to do. Therefore, we have the possibility of designing completely new systems and my goal is of course to make sure these will also function properly. As secretary, I will be largely responsible for maintaining contact with the many people we meet during our project, but I will also spend a lot of time in the lab and with Human Practices, where we’ll translate our research area to the society.
Leon Haas
I am following the master Biomedical Engineering at the TU/e with a focus on protein engineering. I would like to incorporate the knowledge and skills I learned at the bachelors and masters so far in an innovative project. With iGEM we get the opportunity to choose what we want to do and try to make a new step forward. I am the treasurer of this years team which means that besides working on the lab I am responsible for sponsoring, I will also work on the model.
Nathalie van de Laar
My name is Nathalie van de Laar and I am a master student biomedical engineering. My main topic is chemical biology. The most interesting part of iGEM for me is the possibility to learn something completely new and develop new skills. One of my responsibilities is our website. This is something I never did before and I like learning to work on this. I am also responsible for everything concerning public relations and play a role in human practice.
Marle Vleugels
My name is Marle Vleugels and I am a first year’s master student Chemical Engineering, following the MSMC track. One of my responsibilities in this team is the Human Practice and together with Sebastiaan I make sure that everything goes well on the lab. For me, iGEM is a great opportunity to broaden my scientific knowledge and skills in the area of synthetic biology. Next to that, working in an interdisciplinary team on such a challenging and broad project appealed to me. If I am not running around at the lab, you might find me running outside or on a treadmill, preferably with some sun shining.
Sebastiaan Hamers
My name is Sebastiaan Hamers, master student Biomedical Engineering at the technical university of Eindhoven. As part of the iGEM team I will, together with Marle, be responsible for activities in the lab. On top of that I will be involved in the Human Practices and think about the implications of our research in society. This concerns safety implications of our innovation, but also educating and involving people of different backgrounds to show what we are doing, how we will realize our goals and why this is important.
Laura van Smeden
This is my second time as a member of an iGEM team. I also participated in 2015 and it was such a nice and informative experience, that I could not resist joining an iGEM team again. It is very nice to have experience and know some pitfalls, which will hopefully help with preventing them. Currently, I am doing the master Biomedical Engineering and working on my graduation project, which is a combination of Chemical Biology and Molecular Biosensing for Medical Diagnostics. As a team member, my main functions will be to work in the lab and to model our designed system.
