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Revision as of 13:29, 25 October 2017

Glasgow iGEM 2017
Our Team
Katy Baker
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Degree: Genetics
From: Scotland
Following her supposed death in 2003 and immanent replacement by Melissa. Avril Lavigne now lives a quiet life in Glasgow and is part of the 2017 iGEM team. She now calls herself Alison.
Pinja Hartikainen
Degree: Biochemistry
From: Finland
Hannah is a former FBI investigator. She unveiled the US election hacking. She is now retired and does iGEM team investigations. She is our Edward Snowdon.
Deanna van Spall
Degree: Genetics
From: England
Ailish has a long list of words that she hates. The rest of the team are going to take part in a subproject to discover them all.
Matej Vucak
Degree: Molecular and Cellular Biology
From: Croatia
Ambra is the former Italian secretary of state. She now works for the legal department of our iGEM team and is our AMBRAssador, some of her recent work includes forming peace treaties between our two unions GUU and QMU.
Fergus O'Brien
Degree: Biomedical Engineering
From: Northern Ireland
Jane is a former big foot hunter, however upon never finding him, she has entered iGEM to genetically modify bears to create her own big foot.
Liam Pollock
Degree: Molecular and Cellular Biology
From: Scotland
Ross is a former MI6 agent and eligible bachelor currently residing in Glasgow. He likes his agar shaken not stirred.
Simone Marcigaglia
Degree: Biomedical Engineering
From: Italy
Frazer is a former acrobat from the Glasgow circus and now somersaults around our lab. He is also a world champion crossword solver and has a Nobel prize in crossword engineering. He enjoys a tipple of agarose mojitos.
Lindsey McKerrell
Degree: Biomedical Engineering
From: Scotland
Greig has recently become a fidget spinner guru and now teaches workshops on the sport across the globe. Greig’s favourite spin is the flying ninja E.coli death spin.
Catriona Watson
Degree: Genetics
From: Scotland
Natalia At the age of one Natalia won the TATA box trophy for contributions to Genetics. By age five she was running her own research lab at MIT. Since then she has been honoured and given medals by the Queen, Dalai Lama, Bill Nye and Ed Sheeran. She’s taking some down time by competing in iGEM this year.
Oliver Hawes
Degree: Computing Science
From: Somerset
Meet Reuben. He is plagued by a dark, debilitating secret: Petty theft. There is nothing too lacking in value which he will not covet. Your family photos? Bye. Your cat food? Gone. This cactus from the Bower building?... Au revoir.
Zuhair Elgaid
Degree: Biochemistry
From: Scotland
Zuhair was our intern. Eat, sleep, iGEM repeat is his life motto
Advisors & Supervisors
Dr Julien Reboud
Julien's current research interests have a focus on integrating biology and engineering for the benefits of healthcare and industry. Two of his focuses are Acoustofluidics (for sample manipulation), and of course, synthetic biology.
Dr Sean Colloms
While not walking in the Scottish Highlands and shoulder crunching at prehistoric stone circles, Sean likes to tie knots in DNA and dream up new applications for DNA transposition and site-specific recombination.
James Provan
James was part of Glasgow's 2015 iGEM team, and loved it so much he's back for more.
Mhairi Davidson
Mhairi was also on last year's iGEM team, but decided to come back to spread joy and happiness during the difficult times of iGEM when nothing works.

Using synthetic biology to create a biosensor for detection of Campylobacter jejuni, a bacteria linked to food poisoning.