Team:ColumbiaNYC/Team
Meet the Team
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Noah Basri
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Brandon Cuevas
Brandon Cuevas is a sophomore on the pre-med track majoring in Biomedical Engineering and minoring in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. On campus, Brandon is involved with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Synthetic Biology Initiative and American Physician Scientist Association, holding positions as the community outreach chair, education/media committee member and Co-Medical School Liaison, respectively. He has done research on microtubules at the Hess lab at Columbia University, and is now doing research on pancreatic cancer with the Olive Lab at the Columbia University Medical Center. In his spare time, Brandon enjoys playing video games, watching comical YouTube videos, playing basketball and collecting catchphrases to add to his library. Cool beans, right?
Jennifer Fang
Jennifer Fang is a sophomore on the pre-med track pursuing a Biochemistry major who loves to cook, read, and play violin in her spare time. Before iGEM, she worked on the crystallization of a newly-discovered plant protein, discovered and designed new potential treatments for pancreatic cancer, worked on developing real-time medical image reconstruction from MRI and CAT scans using parallel computing and machine learning, and designed and implemented a satellite study of Earth’s radiative balance. On campus, she is an officer on the Research Committee of Columbia’s chapter of the American Physician Scientist Association, and officer on the Outreach Committee of Synthetic Biology Initiative, and the Webmaster and a violinist of Bach Society. She is also an avid member of Charles Drew Pre-Medical Society, Columbia’s chapter of the American Medical Students Association, Chandler Society, and Columbia Music Mentors.
Benjamin Greenfield
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Alex Kim
Alex Kim is a sophomore in Columbia's School of Engineering and plans to major in Biomedical Engineering. He is a member of several pre-medical societies, an ER volunteer at the nearby Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, and financial lead of Columbia Space Initiative’s NASA Micro-G NEXT Mission Team. His previous research at Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine involves researching novel computational methods of visualizing/analyzing methylation motifs in pathogenic bacterial strains.
Nathan Lian
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Panagiotis Oikomonou
Panagiotis Oikonomou is a sophomore in Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, planning to study Biomedical Engineering. He is originally from Athens, Greece. Before iGEM, he was involved in the optimization of a plasma extraction and cell free detection device, combining microfluidics and “lab-on-a-chip” technologies to create a versatile and efficient point of care device. During high-school, he participated in research concerning the identification of the specific role and the regulation of the cell cycle regulator protein Emi2 in living oocytes, testing the hypothesis that Emi 2 has the role of surveying proper M-phase progression Meiosis I and mitosis in certain cancer cell types. On campus, he is a board member of Columbia University American Association of Medical Students, the co-chair of the Bioethics committee, and an organizational member in the board of the university's Biomedical Engineering Society, In his free time, he enjoys basketball, reading non-fiction, and exploring the city.
Tarun Srinivasan
Tarun Srinivasan is a rising sophomore in Columbia College majoring in biochemistry. On campus, Tarun is the public health chair of the Charles Drew Pre Medical Society, the vice president of the Medical Informatics Society, and an officer of Code Orange. Additionally, he works in the Colecraft Lab studying the inhibition of intracellular receptor trafficking.
Harris Wang
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Ross McBee
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Carlotta Ronda
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Sonja Billerbeck
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Tal Danino
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Virginia Cornish
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Lars Dietrich
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Kenneth Shepard
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