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: Probably practising guitar and drums

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

Degree: 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