Team:USMA-West Point/Team

Welcome

Welcome to the United States Military Academy (USMA)- West Point iGEM Team. Our team is composed primarily of USMA Cadets and Professors with the assistance from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Our team is interdisciplinary and collaborative to successful produce our final produce, an Electronic Nose.
Detection through Olfaction!

Students

Name	Location	Description
CDT Zachary Andersen	United States Military Academy	Student Leader Zach is a Life Science major in his fourth year at USMA. While this is my first year on a research team, I hope that my lab experience I have earned through classes at the Academy provide a benefit to the team.
CDT Jason Hug	United States Military Academy	Student Leader Born and raised in Bryan, OH, I am a Life Science major and Senior at the United State Military Academy. I have been a member of this research team for one full year and look forward to using my knowledge and experience on the project to build and lead our "e-Nose" team of well-rounded individuals.
CDT Alanna Appel	United States Military Academy	I am an Engineering Psychology major with a pre-Medicine track. I am new to research, but I am looking forward to working on the project and gaining laboratory experience outside of class.
Payton Boylston	Naval Research Laboratory	Payton am about to start my second year at the United States Military Academy. For this project I was amazed by the amount of engineering that was required in order to prepare for our experiments.
Rayonna Gordon	Naval Research Laboratory	Rayonna is a senior Biomedical Engineering major at North Carolina A&T State University who worked at the Naval Research Laboratory. Incorporating biology with engineering is what she aims to do as a career. This project has given her insight and helped develop her skills in combining biology with several different engineering disciplines.
CDT Liz Huuki	United States Military Academy	Liz is a 3rd Class Cadet at USMA in the Chemistry and Life Science Department. For this project she has been working mainly with the individual plasmids, an aspect which really interests her and has helped her develop technical skills. She is very excited to be able to combine what she is learning in class with actual lab experience.
CDT Channah Mills	United States Military Academy	Channah is a 3rd Class Cadet at USMA in the Chemistry and Life Science Department with a focus on chemical engineering. For this project she has been working mainly with the individual plasmids, an aspect which really interests her and has helped her develop technical skills. She is very excited to be able to combine what she is learning in class with actual lab experience.
CDT Matt McDonough	United States Military Academy	Matt is a 3rd Class Cadet at USMA in the Chemistry and Life Science Department with a focus in Life Science. He spent 4 weeks as a USMA Liaison at NRL developing a new sensing system for the eNose Project. He has worked mainly with the computer-aided design aspect of this project, but is looking forward to working on the biological engineering side it.
Winston Ou	Naval Research Laboratory	Hi, I'm a rising Junior studying Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. I enjoyed the engineering aspect of our project, particularly having to design everything and seeing it come to fruition.
CDT James Pruneski	United States Military Academy	I am a junior studying Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy. I spent time last year observing this project, but I am looking forward to helping out with it this year.
2LT Dillon Macky	Uniformed Service Academy University of the Health Sciences	Advisor: 2LT Macky is a recent graduated from USMA in Chemistry and Life Science. He branched in the medical core where he is currently attending USUHS for a Medical Doctorate.
2LT Ishmael Raheem	Virginia Technology University	Advisor: 2LT Raheem is a recent graduated from USMA in Chemistry and Life Science. He branched in the medical core where he is currently attending Virginia Tech for a Medical Doctorate.

Primary Investigators, Secondary Investigators, Instructors

Name	Location	Description
Dr. Alex Mitropoulos	United States Military Academy	PI: Dr. Mitropoulos is an Assistant Professor-Davies Fellow in the Chemistry and Life Science and Mathematical Science Departments with a background in biomedical engineering. He received his PhD from Tufts University in Biomedical Engineering with an emphasis nanomaterial and biosensing.
Dr. John Wickiser	United States Military Academy	PI: Dr. Wickiser is an Associate Professor at USMA in Chemistry and Life Science and Director of Life Science. He received his PhD from Yale University in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. He has worked at USMA for over 10 years, where he was a graduate in 1992. Prior to his work at USMA, he served as a helicopter pilot as an officer in the US Army.
Dr. R. Kirk Pirlo	Naval Research Lab	Co-PI: Dr. Pirlo is a Government Chief Technology Officer (gCTO) at the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Manufacturing Innovation Institute at the Naval Research Laboratory. He received his PhD from Clemson University in Bioengineering. For the past 8 years he has been a Research Biologist at NRL.
Dr. Kamil Woronowicz	United States Military Academy	Co-PI: Dr. Woronowicz is an Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Life Science with a background in chemistry. He received his PhD from Yale University in Chemistry with an emphasis on characterization of aPP miniature proteins. He has worked at Harvard University as well as Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Dr. John Cave	United States Military Academy	Instructor: Dr. Cave is as Senior Scientist with a background in biochemistry. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in Chemistry with an emphasis on structural biology. He has worked at Burke Medical Research Institute in the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience from Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Brain and Mind Research Institute and Director for Neuronal Specification.
Dr. Joel Gaston	Naval Research Laboratory	Instructor: Dr. Gaston is an NRC Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory with Dr. Pirlo. with a background in biochemistry.