Meet the Team!
The team members
Sarah Clinton
Degree: 3rd year biomedical sciences
Age: 20
Favourite part of iGEM : Definitely not sending hundreds of ignored emails
What she can be found doing in her spare time: Rewatching ‘Parks and Recreation’, listening to ‘The Maine’ on repeat, and now trying to avoid sending another email again in her life
Ryan Coates
Degree: 3rd year Genetics
Age: 20
Favourite part of iGEM : The week Niall was sick and couldn’t complain
What he can be found doing in his spare time: Eating anything with at least 2x your daily sugar recommendation, reading, wasting time on some game, and just generally being a little weird
Niall Coates
Degree: 4th year Genetics
Age: 22
Favourite part of iGEM : The week he was sick so didn’t have to work with Ryan
What he can be found doing in his spare time: Probably screaming at a strange noise on ‘Subnautica’ and binge eating bourbons with tea – what a true Brit
Jade Hughes
Degree: 4th year Genetics
Age: 22
Favourite part of iGEM : ‘Game of Thrones Mondays’
What she can be found doing in her spare time: Farming profit snek
Helen Davies
Degree: 3rd year biomedical sciences
Age: 20
Favourite part of iGEM : The cake at the Shard for the UK meet up
What she can be found doing in her spare time: Watching Game of Thrones, eating, and likely drinking orange VK’s #CardiffSU
Tom Sage
Degree: 3rd year Chemistry
Age: 21
Favourite part of iGEM : Tom found playing with liquid nitrogen Van der Waal
What he can be found doing in his spare time: Binge watching series, playing the Witcher 3, destroying on Overwatch, and playing sick beats on the drums.. sometimes all at once
Emily Heath
Degree: 3rd year Biochemistry
Age: 20
Favourite part of iGEM : Definitely not ‘Game of Thrones Mondays’
What she can be found doing in her spare time: Getting stressed about small things and not watching Game of Thrones (shame)
Our supervisors
Dr Geraint Parry
Qualification: PhD Plant Science
Age: 42
Favourite part of iGEM : Moulding young minds.
What he can be found doing in his spare time: Looking after the Cardiff iGEM baby
Dr Daniel Pass
Qualification: PhD Bioinformatics & Environmental Microbiology
Age: 29
Favourite part of iGEM : Being flummoxed by wetlab terms.
What he can be found doing in his spare time: Cooking, Crypto & Quiz shows.
Jamie Long
Qualification: Bsc
Dr Amit Jathoul
Qualification: PhD
Age: 38
Favourite part of iGEM : Helping students 😉
What he can be found doing in his spare time: Reading about this concept called 'spare time'. Or reading/ walking/ hurting peoples ears with a guitar
