Team:William and Mary/Team
Sejal Dhawan
Upcoming
Theresa Gibney
Upcoming
Christine Li
Upcoming
Wukun Liu
Upcoming
Alyssa Luz-Ricca
Alyssa is a sophomore and plans to major in Neuroscience. She is the head of outreach and is interested in exploring the intersection of scientific research and public engagement. Alyssa's special skills include forcing her teammates to be in photos they don't want to be in and unrelenting peppiness during the early hours of wetlab.
Callan Monette
Upcoming
Cedar Ren
Upcoming
CiCi Zheng
CiCi is a rising sophomore at the College of William and Mary. She thought she would become an architect, since she loved doodling and hand-crafting so much, but running into synthetic biology redirected her designing dream to an equally novel, but even more fascinating field. CiCi is a plant person both inside and outside lab. She researches genomics and evolution with Dr. Joshua Puzey, and brings with her a white orchid this summer which is to be watered every Friday. She is proudly part-times the team's cook and barista.
Ethan Jones
Ethan is a junior pursuing a B.S. in Biology and Computational & Applied Mathematics & Statistics. He is a returning member from last year who is this year's designated team captain. For as long as he can remember he’s always wanted to be a scientist both because of his love of learning and because of his desire to change the world. Ethan was especially excited to work on iGEM this summer because synthetic biology is a relatively young field and there is a lot that we don't know yet. Additionally, synthetic biology is a field that has a lot of potential to change the future of medicine and the world at large. In his spare time Ethan enjoys perusing local culture forums to consume and create various image and text based communications, as well as learning highly specific useless facts and playing tennis.
John Marken
Upcoming
Professor Margaret Saha
Dr. Saha is a developmental neurobiologist and the primary adviser of the W&M iGEM Team. Her unwavering support was instrumental in the founding of the team in 2014, and in the team's continuation this season. She drinks 15 cups of coffee per day, much to the concern of some of her students. She insists it's alright.
