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Alex Cho

Major: Biology
Year: 2020
Where are you from: South Korea
Something interesting about yourself: I’m a South Korean soldier next year.
Why do you want to participate in iGEM? You don’t say no to these things.

Diego Kleiman

Major: Biology
Year: 2020
Where are you from: Argentina
Something interesting about yourself: I am interested in exploring what can be learnt at the interface between biology and other disciplines.
Why do you want to participate in iGEM? I think that iGEM is a great opportunity to develop an interdisciplinary project that draws upon biological knowledge to solve a real-world problem.

Jonah Joughin

Major: Computer Science
Year: 2020
Where are you from: USA
Something interesting about yourself:I traveled around the world this past summer.
Why do you want to participate in iGEM? To help a friend in need.

Laura Karpauskaite

Major: Biology
Year: 2020
Where are you from: Lithuania
Something interesting about yourself: Went to a 30km cross-country skiing marathon without knowing how to ski
Why do you want to participate in iGEM? It seemed like a great opportunity to learn more about synthetic biology.

Muhammad Shehryar Hamid

Major: Civil Engineering
Year: 2020
Where are you from: Pakistan
Something interesting about yourself: I have lived at ten different houses, each for at least more than a year, throughout my life.
Why do you want to participate in iGEM? To acknowledge myself with the meeting grounds of biology and engineering, and to learn how to integrate this knowledge in designing bioengineering systems.

Saad Sultan

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Year: 2019
Where are you from: Pakistan
Something interesting about yourself: Snorkelled with Sharks, sea turtles and dolphins at three different reefs in the Maldives.
Why do you want to participate in iGEM? I’ve always had a love for biology and, well, biology and engineering together just sound irresistible so I couldn’t hold myself back.

Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani

Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani received his Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, USA). His group aims to define the metabolic potential of eukaryotic genomes and use this information to identify strategies for improving bioproduct production in algal systems, as well as to remediate metabolic perturbations associated with human disease states. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Biology and as the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Algal, Synthetic, and Systems Biology at NYUAD.

Mazin Magzoub

Mazin Magzoub received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden) studying the biophysical properties of cell-penetrating peptides. His lab focuses on drug delivery strategies, amyloid diseases, and cancer therapeutics. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Practice in Biology and as the Principal Investigator of the Biophysics Lab at NYUAD.

Mona Kalmouni

Mona pursued her M.Sc. in Biotechnology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada where she worked on assessing the effect of gold nanoparticles on glioblastoma cell viability and autophagy. She also received her M.Ed. from the Institute of Education UCL in London, UK while running an education center and carrying out various teaching duties. Due to her passion in teaching and science, she joined NYU Abu Dhabi as an Associate Instructor of Biology for the Foundations of Science courses. She is also involved in a research project that focuses on cell-penetrating peptides as a potential therapeutic strategy in cancer.