Team

Team Members

Ashley Quinn is a designer and activist interested in the cross-section between art, science and technology. Through her work she bridges the gap between environmental awareness, human action, and behavior change by creating novel experiences and design interventions. Rooted in research-based practices with a focus on the environment and future-thinking, her projects are cross-disciplinary, drawing on her experience designing for the built world, the digital world, and everything in between.

Eric Fernandez is currently attending Columbia University. He is a post baccalaureate in the biotechnology certificate program and upon completion will be pursuing doctorate programs in biology. His ultimate goal is to become a professor with a focus on researching cures for cancer and age related diseases.

Will Canine is an technologist, entrepreneur, and activist living in Brooklyn NY. He is the co-founder of OpenTrons Labworks, a company that designs and manufactures open-source, affordable lab automation equipment and maintains mix.bio, an online community for designing, sharing, and running automated protocols. He has been a Genspace member for nearly two years and loves sci-fi and distance running.

Karen Ingram is a designer, artist, and creative director who uses her skill set to promote scientific awareness. Ingram is a co-organizer of Brooklyn science cabaret, The Empiricist League and a board member of SXSW Interactive. She was an instructor on the subject of creative strategy for NYU SHERP’s pilot Entrepreneurial Science Journalism course. Her work has appeared in publications including titles from Die Gestalten (Berlin), Scientific American, and The FWA where she was named a "Digital Pioneer." Ingram is currently working with Natalie Kuldell, a bioengineer at MIT on Biobuilder, a synthetic biology teaching resource.

Giorgia Cannici is an architect by experience and education who in the past few years has become enchanted with the revolution that has been occurring in biotechnology and in nano- and micro- materials and device engineering, all of which are things she believes to be of seminal importance to architecture as a future discipline.

She is currently studying biotechnology at Harvard Extension school, and her dream it's to combine architecture, synthetic biology and material science in order to create advanced material for architectural application.

Christine Jackson is a Front End Web Designer / Developer from Long Island, NY. She is also is a science enthusiast with a love for biology. She is interested in seeing how current and future technology can help advance biotech in a way that could help solve environmental and health issues.

Marty Goldin graduated way back in the last century with a degree in electrical engineering from Cornell. After a short stint in the technical world, he has spent most of his career in the world of real estate. Now through work with Genspace and the iGEM project, he is now rejoining the technical world in a new century.

Mentors

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Students

Allison Birnbaum is a research assistant at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In addition, she is a volunteer at Genspace, and assists with laboratory instruction for classes and community events. Her background is in genetics and molecular biology, and though being outside in the sunshine is nice, she is a self-described lab rat. In the future she hopes to transition to do work into gene therapy and genetic engineering