Team:Hong Kong HKUST/astrid

Haemin is a second year student majoring in Biotechnology. She is one of the two leaders of this year's HKUST iGEM Team. In the lab, she works diligently and is very helpful when needed. But most of the times, she looks blank-minded and often makes small careless mistakes. Her trademark quote is "What did I just do? *blank face*"

"What should be our team name...Pneutella? Pneutorious?....Finding Pneumo!! Wait, Let me draw a fish :)"

"Jacqueline is a year two student majoring in biochemistry and cell biology. Apart from being a junior member in iGEM team, she is also the secretary for the team. Claiming to have above standard laboratory skill, she perform various kinds of experiments. Quite often, she will work in laboratory from 9am to 6pm. Unsurprisingly, she likes to attend every meeting and make reminder and minutes for every meeting. EVERY MEETING! (To all who don’t read her emails, be careful) .Enjoying iGEM competition, she likes to perform site directed mutagenesis and Gibson assembly daily. Rapping is one of her precious ability as well as stalking others. Indeed she is the number ONE stalker in the team. Although she tried very hard to shed this title, the fact that she is a stalker will not change."

Alfie has done so much to the team and to the lab. He has had a particular affection to the centrifuge. He loved it so much that he sometimes SLAMMED the cover to make sure it’s closed, then Raul would be jealous and say DON’T SLAM THE CENTRIFUGE. Hmm.. I wonder why the centrifuge got replaced. Alfie also liked the newly replaced centrifuge. He put smaller tubes then required maybe thinking the big tubes are too heavy for the centrifuge, but he had to take care of the mess of broken tubes and spilt DNA inside the centrifuge. Lastly, he worked as a great team manager, and helped out the whole team by transferring to many different teams.

Albert is such a gentleman who cares about other people. He is person in charge (PIC) of Human practice group. Funny random thing about him: He likes to play games in the lab. He is Indonesian but he learned how to say bad words in Korean. So be careful everyone, when he starts speaking in Korean!

Hye Ji is a sweet, soft-spoken girl who works mainly on human practice but helps out in the lab as well. She is the matchmaker of the team. She makes the other girls play 'Ideal Type Worldcup' to find their best match in the iGEM team. Rumour has it that she also gives free relationship advice on the side.

"Chloe is a second year student from Hong Kong taking her major in Biochemistry and Cell Biology. She is the PIC of the second group of the team, and assign and coordinate the group's work. Other than that, Choe is also competing with Jacqueline to be the number one stalker in the team, but to this day, she has not been recognized as such, and ranks only third. Quote: ""I don't like colony PCR, so I make my groupmates do it hehe"""

Rinaldi is good at photoshop and graphic design. He is in charge of graphic design. He is from Indonesia.

James is very tall and like to dance. He often wears a cap to labs and classes. He is very friendly and open to everyone, and want to be friends with anybody. He is a very calm person that never complains, and always does what he wants. His life seems very simple and uncomplicated.

Guillaume is also known as William. He is a sophomore majoring in computer Engineering and responsible for coding for our Wiki page. Although he majors in a subjected unrelated to biology, he is very keen to learn about Synthetic Biology in iGEM. His ultimate goal is to build a cyborg! He loves woodcarving, baking and playing violin.

Jordy is a year two student majoring in chemical and bimolecular engineering. He is hard-working, diligent, and creative. He also likes to eat, play basketball, and play computer games. Above all, he likes Doyle the most. Though Jordy is very funny, sometimes he can be extremely serious when doing something. The scary part of Jordy is that he is good at everything, even arts. Everyone likes Jordy.

Angeline a.k.a Angie is the angel of iGEM. She is a cheerful lady who likes to work but also have fun at the same time. She loves to play basketball and play games with other people. She is excellent in making friends with other people. There's nothing bad about her except for her spontaneous randomness. But that characteristic of her is what makes iGEM fun in some way or another. Interesting and unique people are the ones who everyone should cherish.

"She is one of the rare team member that does not major in Life Science, she is a year 2 student majoring Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering(but still, Bio is involved). She is one of the 3-man Indonesian gang, which contributes to most of the noise in lab. She is indeed very helpful in the lab, such as helping to fill boxes of tips just after a few hours she landed in HK. She also helped much in Human Practice work. She is quite absent-minded about her iPad, luckily she does not forget her lab work. She LOVES people calling her surname, and she really likes Hong Kong Disneyland."

Joseph is a second year student majoring Biochemistry and Cell Biology from South Korea. He is one of the person in charge of Human Practice group. He can't wake up early in the morning and that's why he always get the afternoon shift of lab-work. He likes playing music and eating sushi. Above all, Joseph is very funny and really likes goofing around with the other members.

Jason is a 2nd year student majoring in Biochemistry and Cell Biology. He is from Korea but he spent most of his life in Singapore. He contributed to module 2 by using "educated guess" to figure out the gene sequence of combox. He is in wiki team and tried to build up the wiki page website.

We all know Edward is a hardworking deligent lab worker(lover), his passion has been our treasure. But everyone also remembered Edward has put 30μl of DNA ladder instead 1μl when he ran a gel. I guess every newbie has made their own stupid mistakes :> And even though he presented himself as nice as possible in front of everyone, he is really mean and snarky when he is speaking in Cantonese!

Raul is a third year student majoring in Biological sciences. He is one of our two senior members this year. He seems very intimidating at first but once you get to know him he will joke around you till you get annoyed. He is also one of the busiest and most patient person in the lab, doing lab tasks and answering everyone's questions at the same time.

Jihwan, is one of the two senior members of our iGEM team. This is his second year of participation, and he devotes much of his time and efforts into bringing the riboregulator project to a success. He kindly provides help and advice to us as an experienced senior. Being all-rounded in both academic and non-academic pursuits, he is the role model for inspiring the younger minds of our team to strive for excellence.

Eric is not only a second year student majoring in biochemistry and cell biology but also a computer guru who helps in coding our wiki page. Being calm and serious are two of his conspicuous traits. He is a diligent, responsible and obliging person and you will find him very comfortably to work with when you get to know him. Though he looks serious, sometimes the words he said could be extremely humorous that everyone in the lab would laugh out loud.

Hojeong, or Bonnie, is a sophomore in BCB and Chemistry (YES, she majors in BOTH). She loves cat, and she is simply the most artistic person in the whole team. She often take her passion in cats and art to an another level, and overwhelms people with her perks and quirkiness. She even sometimes label herself as a 'cat'. She meows constantly in the lab for 'luck'.