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OUR TEAM
Team Leader
Luca Rossoni
Luca is a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, where he works at developing new/improving existing processes for the bioproduction of commodity chemicals. His research focuses mostly in understanding and overcoming toxicity issues given by products and substrates, and in using synthetic biology and engineering tools to maximise production yields and titres. He has experience in metabolic engineering, microbial fermentation, process design, applied biocatalysis using whole cells and isolated enzymes, enzymology and evolution of enzymes with random and rational approaches. In his spare time, he is mostly a motorbiker, but he also does some hiking, sports and take care of his little princess Giulia! “iGEM is great...it is like doing a PhD project in three months instead of three years!”
In his spare time, he is mostly a motorbiker, but he also does some hiking, sports and take care of his little princess Giulia!
“iGEM is great...it is like doing a PhD project in three months instead of three years!”
Ines Canadas
Ines is a PhD student in synthetic biology who joined the Synthetic Biology Research Centre in Nottingham (UK) in 2014. Her research has mainly focused on the development of genetic tools for the genus Clostridium, a known chassis for the production of valuable industrial chemicals.
Apart from cloning, Ines likes reading, traveling, swimming and most importantly, talking. In her spare time, she bakes extremely yummy cheesecakes. With enthusiasm, she advises the iGEM team enjoying every moment – good or bad – this competition offers.
Maria Zygouropoulou
Maria defected from pharmacy to molecular microbiology and is now in the final year of her PhD. She is trying to engineer bacteria into tiny, cancer-fighting superheroes by arming them with various anticancer properties. In her free, she likes to read books, bake and make travel plans. She is an avid online shopper, serial procrastinator and true Jaffa cake addict.
"iGEM has been a great learning journey for all of us – it’s amazing to see how much the team has accomplished in and out of the lab and how much we, as advisors, have learnt alongside them. It’s been a pleasure to work on such a cool idea."
James Gilbert
James is a postdoctoral researcher in computational synthetic biology at the SBRC in Nottingham. He is currently researching and developing software related to the metabolic modelling of microbes for the expression of heterologous pathways. A computer scientist by training, he has worked for around 5 years in fields related to complex biological systems with a particular interest in complex networks. His core interest has always been to find ways of applying maths and computing to help build a more sustainable world with systems and synthetic biology.
When he is not sat behind a desk or attending meetings for the iGEM team he like to play the guitar, run, cycle and ski.
"The iGEM competition is a fantastic opportunity to train the next generation of scientists to spread and develop a global message for the potential of synthetic biology to transform our world."
