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Special Ability

Scaring people with math

Ultimate Life Goal

Unify the Standard Model with Gravity

Words To Live By

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

iGEM in Numbers

What’s the weather like out there?

Special Ability

Executing bugs ;)

Ultimate Life Goal

Patience!

Words To Live By

Never give up!

iGEM in Numbers

5500+ lines of wiki code written

Special Ability

Life Planning

Ultimate Life Goal

Understand the nature of Intelligence

Words To Live By

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough

iGEM in Numbers

271 Hours spent on Photoshop

Special Ability

I always find a way to think positively

Ultimate Life Goal

I do not have a simple answer on that. After all, it is personal.

Words To Live By

No man is an island.

iGEM in Numbers

2.300 hours of work created 7.133 GB of knowledge and memories

Special Ability

Explaining stuff for dummies - biological stuff to non-biologists especially ☺

Ultimate Life Goal

Friendship

Words To Live By

"What can change the nature of a man?"

iGEM in Numbers

3210 times ran a simulation

Alias

King Punny

Special Ability

There's no room for this here, but don't trust me, my spatial abilities aren't any good

Ultimate Life Goal

I meaaan, space is pretty cool

Words To Live By

It is possible for ordinary humans, to choose to be extraordinary

iGEM in Numbers

167 legal documents filled to get past greek bureaucracy

Special Ability

Sleepless Regeneration

Ultimate Life Goal

Beat Eugene to immortality

Words To Live By

"Not all those who wander are lost"

iGEM in Numbers

Daily repeat, for more than a year: "Everyone chill, we got this"

Special Ability

Forgetting what I ate 10 minutes ago, but never forgetting any experiment or protocol

Ultimate Life Goal

Beat Asteris to immortality

Words To Live By

An ultimate goal without a plan is just a wish

iGEM in Numbers

More than 1.000 km driven between labs (and they are less than 15km far from one another)

Special Ability

Binge-reading papers

Ultimate Life Goal

Unraveling the mysteries of neural information processing

Words To Live By

"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers than can't be questioned"

iGEM in Numbers

An average of 5.1 coffees per day

Special Ability

Never accepting failure

Ultimate Life Goal

Be a memorable scientist

Words To Live By

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile

iGEM in Numbers

28 sunrises witnessed from the lab

Alias

Stitch

Special Ability

Seeing with eyes shut

Ultimate Life Goal

Understanding &&|| Utilizing the Human Brain

Words To Live By

Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it

iGEM in Numbers

More than 181 times assuming the role of team's alarm clock

Principal Investigators

George Koliakos

Professor
Head of the Laboratory of Biological Chemistry
School of Medicine
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

George Mosialos

Professor
Department of Genetics
Development and Molecular Biology
School of Biology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Dimitra Dafou

Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics
Development and Molecular Biology
School of Biology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Dimosthenis Sarigiannis

Associate Professor
Laboratory of Environmental Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessalonikir

Instructors

Spyros Petrakis

Institute of Applied Biosciences
Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas

Paul Hadweh

Department of Genetics
Development and Molecular Biology
School of Biology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Fotis E. Psomopoulos

Institute of Applied Biosciences
Center for Research and Technology Hellas
Information processing laboratory
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Elisavet Lioulia

Department of Genetics
Development and Molecular Biology
School of Biology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Athanasios Sachinidis

Department of Genetics
Development and Molecular Biology
School of Biology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Advisors

Eleni Gounari

Biohellenika SA Biotechnology Company

John S. Aristeidakis

Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Thessaly

Angeliki Malamidou

Biohellenika SA Biotechnology Company

Christina Salpingidou

Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics & Turbomachinery
School of Mechanical Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Handakas Vagelis

Laboratory of Environmental Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Nikolaos Bekas

Department of Genetics
Development and Molecular Biology
School of Biology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Attributions

We started in October 2016 as iGEM Team Greece. A team never seen on this competition before, as there was no previous undergraduate team participation from Greece on iGEM. This meant that “The Road to Boston” would have to be “mapped” by us for the very first time!

But it didn’t scare us. Our team worked hard on facing obstacles despite our inexperience regarding the competition. Thus, we are very proud that we are able to declare, now that we are actually reaching Boston, that the entirety of our project was conceptualized, planned and implemented by the team members!

In spite of the fact that the statement above really fills us with joy, we could not but express our deeply thanks to the people that were there for us, during our journey.

Dr. Spyros Petrakis (instructor) for his support and advice on cloning and transfection methods.
Dr. Paul Hadweh (instructor) for his advice and aid on troubleshooting.
Elisavet Lioulia (instructor) for her help on conducting Real - Time PCR to confirm the candidate miRNAs.
Eleni Gounari and Aggeliki Malamidou (advisors) for their guidance with regards to biosafety and the use of the flow cytometry.
Prof. George Koliakos, Prof. George Mosialos, Assistant Prof. Dimitra Dafou and Associate Prof. Dimosthenis Sarigiannis for their constant advice and guidance. Especially Prof. George Koliakos (Biohellenika SA) and Prof. George Mosialos and Assistant Prof. Dimitra Dafou (Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, AUTH) for providing us with their laboratory space and equipment.
Assistant Prof. Efstratios Kosmidis for his help on our Quorum Sensing model.
Prof. Chlichlia Katerina (MBG, DUTH) for providing us with the PerkinElmer EnSpire Multimode Plate Reader for our InterLab measurements.
Ira Dika and Vasilis Barahanos for filming and editing our team’s videos.
The Manzins for voluntarily transforming the concept of our project into art.

Erwin Schroedinger, in his 1944 book “What is life?”, theorizes that biological systems are auto-organized and feed on free energy.

Our team constitutes a true example of Schroedinger’s words, as despite our inexperience - being the first Greek collegiate team to have ever participated in iGEM competition - much like a biological system we sustained ourselves and worked hard towards our goals for the competition though self-organization and by “feeding on our free energy”.

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