Team:Edinburgh/Team

Chiara Asselborn

I am the biomedical sciences student of the group, starting my senior year in physiology in September. The thing I like most about iGEM is its multidisciplinary approach. I am hoping that I will learn to incorporate new ways of tackling set projects by learning from my peers.

I teamed up with Elize and Sam to think about the human practices side of the project, but I am also helping out with lab work. Especially by tidying, cleaning and labelling everything that comes my way in the lab.

Rikki Guy

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Sam Ireland

I’m a Biology student, specialising in Biotechnology in my final year next year. I’ve been keen to do iGEM since it came up in a lecture in First Year, since it struck me as something that will probably be ‘big’ in the 21st century.

My interests within the team are in the communication of our project. I like explaining concepts, and hopefully I can make some contributions to that aspect of our project. I also have an interest in the modelling side of things, but unfortunately in this case my interest far outstrips my skills so I’ll just be a curious onlooker as far as modelling in this project goes.

Charlotte Lilley

I’m a third year Biotechnology student, with an interest in microbiology and genetics I joined iGEM because it seemed like the best way to get experience of performing a science project, and and an interesting way to spend a summer. I’m working on allowing bacteria to communicate using sugars.

Elize Petrovska

I'm the Civil Engineer for the team. I chose to do iGEM because the whole idea of engineering living organisms blows my mind a little bit, and I thought it would be interesting to see what is going on in a branch of engineering that is so completely different from the one I'm studying.

Over the summer, I will be looking into Human Practices aspects of our project and Synthetic Biology in general, and exploring the connection of these to other branches of science, technology and, well, life. I will also give my best try to help the Computer Modelling team in producing pretty MATLAB graphs, but we'll see how that goes.

Phillip Rhys-Davies

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Carrie Pickering

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Cesar Pumar-Garcia

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Yuma Shino

I first heard of iGEM when I was 16 back in 2009 at a Young Biochemistry Researchers convention. The idea of University teams competing with each other creating genetically modified organisms intrigued me and I participated in a mini-iGEM brainstorming activity as well. 5 years later I am in my 3rd going on to 4th year of my Biotechnology course and joined the iGEM team in order to experience for myself what the iGEM was really like. The process of working together with others for creating and processing ideas is both interesting and enlightening as well as deeply fulfilling.

Anna Stikane

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